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Jeudi, juillet 8th, 2010
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, the first film that the Master of Suspense filmed in Technicolor, has languished in largely undeserved mediocrty since its release in 1948. The film didn’t do well theatrically in the US, and subsequent versions (VHS) were made from terrible-quality originals. Finally, Universal has seen fit to release on DVD a marvelously restored version of a truly comely film.
Rope, based on a play of the same name, which was in turn based on a trusty kill case in 1924, opens with two friends - played by John Dall and Farley Granger - strangling a classmate with a length of rope. The body is then stuffed in a trunk that the two expend as a buffet table during an upcoming dinner party - a party partially in their murdered friend’s honor.
As the movie progresses, the friends’ professor - played exceedingly well by James Stewart in one of his best-acted roles - eventually begins to suspect the crime. As the two students assume him in a discussion about Nietzschian philosophy, and specifically philosophy of the ubermensch (overman or superman), Stewart’s character puts two and two together. The tension is so tight you believe your breath for the last half-hour, wondering if Stewart knows, and if he does, what he’s going to do about it - and, more importantly, if he’s in anxiety, too.
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Much has been made of the technical side of the film - Hitch wanted it as conclude to a stage play as possible, and the entire movie has only nine (well-hidden) breaks - as well as the homosexual overtones, but the right genius in Rope comes from the acting and direction. As opposed to today’s “roller-coaster race” action movies, Rope builds slowly, layering tension upon tension until the viewer fair can’t wait anymore to rep out what happens. Anyone can toy with an audience, using special effects, explosions, and speedily cars to do action, but legal suspense - that hourglass feeling of grains of sand building a mountain - takes talent, and Rope readily uses that finish, thanks largely to the preformances of the three main characters.
In addition, Stewart’s ultimate conclusions on Nietzschian philosophy offer a refreshing step away from those who would indict it solely on the basis of notions (and books) like the Will to Power - people who can glance no further than the two murderers. Like Hitler and Dall and Granger’s characters, some people cannot watch past these passages, often taken out of context from the rest of Nietzsche’s plan. Thankfully, Arthur Laurentis’ screenplay ultimately deals with these ideas in a faded manner - and shows the horrifying effects of the hubris so many undergraduate-level students score when they don’t bother to read and conside Nietzsche in context.
Universal’s DVD is beneficial - the describe and sound quality are marvelous, especially considering it’s been more than 50 years since Rope was filmed. The full-frame presentation isn’t a predicament, since widescreen movies didn’t exist at the time. The half-hour long featurette offers some intelligent insights and interviews with a couple members of the cast and crew, and isn’t your usual “so-and-so was substantial” pieces. Hume Cronyn offers some superb - and well-founded - criticisms of both Hitch and the finished product. Also included is Rope’s original theatrical trailer, a kind of “mini-short” featuring the soon-to-be-murdered lad discussing a marriage proposal with his girlfriend in Central Park, in surprisingly decent quality considering the film’s age.
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If you are a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, or unbiased like sizable acting and pianowire-tight tension, then you can’t go inferior with Rope.
Based on an loyal destroy case and directed by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, Rope tells the yarn of two very cessation, well to do roommates Phillip and Brandon who strangle David, an weak school chum, objective for kicks. To further increase the exhilaration of their dastardly deed, the duo consider it palatable to desecrate the unimaginative by placing his body into a chest and serving their dinner party guests a banquet on its decorated top. The guests of honor at this most perverse soirée include their venerable prep school professor Rupert Cadell (James Stewart), the destroy victim’s parents, his fiancé, and her aged boyfriend. This tapestry provides tension for Phillip as he is nervous about being caught and questions abound as to David’s whereabouts. Interestingly, Brandon feels smug even justified as he views the act of destroy to be relegated to a prefer wonderful few.
Rope explores Nietzsche’s understanding of the “übermensch” or “superman” in which society’s people are divided into two groups. Those who contain in the concepts of correct and atrocious and behave accordingly are deemed heinous beings and therefore unnecessary. While those who are enlightened enough to realize that one is free to act according to their occupy volition because there are no such faded or external constraints on behavior are deemed pleasurable. In this worldview, homicide is justifiable because the intellectually proper are actually bettering society by eliminating the imperfect and their drain on its resources. The fable comes to a head when Professor Cadell who taught Phillip and Brandon these nihilistic concepts begins to suspect that they practiced what he preached by killing David.
Rope was shot with eight; 10-minute reels to give the illusion of one seamless, continuous hold. This forces the viewer to pay attention to every word and provides an eerie feeling that he/she is a gape to the slay and is a guest at the dinner party. What also drives the film is its witty if not macabre dialogue that is punctuated with puns, innuendoes and double entendre. It is also consuming to gaze the professor consume Phillip and Brandon in the proverbial game of cat and mouse. Likewise, the characters are richly developed and deep.
Rope is Hitchcock’s most underrated and unappreciated film. Which is a shame because I enjoy Rope poses some very spicy questions. Is there sanctity to human life? Are all human beings equal? Is abolish ever justifiable? Is there moral and rotten? Is factual absolutism an faded opinion in which only the extinct and tiring, subscribe? Is a teacher responsible for his/her students’ actions? Ultimately, the viewer must determine.
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