An important motif in the film score is inspired by the foghorns of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay – where Madeleine jumps into the water – and at the film’s climax, Bernard Herrmann’s music refers to Wagner’s Liebestod from the musical drama Tristan und Isolde – a perfect metaphor for the main character’s obsession. O filme é o 46º longa-metragem de Alfred Hitchcock, que tinha 58 anos quando o realizou. It is commonly understood that Alfred Hitchcock was an auteur: a film director whose personal influence and artistic control over his or her films are so great. Rising and falling notes are the perfect musical equivalent to the many spiral symbols Hitchcock used in Vertigo.
They made no fewer than seven films together, with Hitchcock making the length of some scenes dependent on the music of Herrmann, who as a composer always wanted to have the last word. Out of every Hitchcock movie, Lynch once picked Rear Window as his go-to choice.He explained, In the film, Hitchcock manages to take something huge and condense it into something really small. The collaboration between Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann is legendary. Unsurprisingly, Lynch cites Hitchcock, alongside filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick and Billy Wilder, as one of his favourite directors. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'Vertigo' right now, here are some particulars about the Paramount, Alfred J. After this incident, he himself begins to develop an obsession with the past: Madeleine appears everywhere. The story was based on the 1954 novel Dentre les morts. However, he is unable to prevent a second suicide attempt by Madeleine due to vertigo – the reason why he was unfit for work. Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. After saving the woman in question from a suicide attempt, Scottie starts a relationship with her. However, a friend of his asks him for a favour: to follow his wife Madeleine, who is unhealthily obsessed with things from the past. He introduces the Brussels audience to the score that American film composer Bernard Herrmann composed for perhaps the most famous film of all time: Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock.Īfter a traumatic accident, Detective Scottie is forced into early retirement.
He introduced the Western world to the film music of Alfred Schnittke, reconstructed the score Prokofiev wrote for the Soviet film Alexander Nevsky and conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the world premiere of the restored version of Metropolis. The German conductor Frank Strobel is a pioneer of film concerts.
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