Comparing Comparison And Contrast Of Alfred Hitchcock s...

Comparison and Contrast Recently while watching two old film classics, Vertigo and Notorious, I found myself thinking of other movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Most of his movies have many things in common, while remaining completely independent of each other. These two films have different plots, actors, and most obvious one is filmed in color the other black and white. Which leads me to believe that Alfred Hitchcock really knew what he was about; as a result his films all a have a distinctive theme about them. Both films keep you in a state of anticipation as the stories unfold and reveal the twist and turns that Alfred Hitchcock was famous for. Notorious was written in 1946 a year after World War II came to an end and the†¦show more content†¦The cinematography of each film was thought out and tells us the story. So dialogue was not really needed, you could read the movies by listening to the music and watching the shifting patterns of light and shadow. Alfred Hitchcock was famous for using point-of-view shot, it is most noticeable in Notorious where Alicia in lying in bed after a night of drinking and the camera follows her upside down, so you feel a little unbalanced yourself while the scene is taking place. During the movie Vertigo the way the camera angles, scenes, point-of-view shots and the story itself creates the effect of the viewer having vertigo themselves. The music tells the story in Vertigo, you know when something new happens or is about to, it was well timed and must have taken awhile to get it right, timing must have been everything. In Notorious the camera tells the story, the anticipation, you can feel the anxiety mount in the scene where Alicia and Alex have a party, they invite T.R.Devlin (played by Cary Grant) to attend. Before the party Alicia steals the key to the wine cellar where the secret the German’s are hiding is purported to be. The scene where she is holding the key clutched in her hand, the camera zooms in, you can almost see the sweat building in her palm as her body head heat sup the key and I am sure the anxiety building in her heightens her awareness of that key. The camera zooms totally into her hand, it’s an amazing