Watched Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" last night

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I thought I had seen all of his movies, but somehow I had never heard of this one. Really enjoyed it.

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1. Rear window and Rope

I can't ever decide which is my favorite??

Strangers on a train gets in the mix to.

But Rope omg love this movie Farley Granger and John Dall make wonderful villains. The brash smugness of Dalls character combined with the meek follow the leader of Grangers is an amazing and suspenseful mix.

Of course James Stewart's nack of on screen "i know what you did" puts you on the edge of your seat.

Side note that movie was a story by Hume Cronyn.

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14. inspired by leopold and loeb

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15. Strangers on a Train was excellent

Frenzy
Rear Window
The Man Who Knew Too Much
North By Northwest
Notorious

And many more

and of course his masterpiece, Vertigo

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2. Now on my list to revisit

It's been a long time since watching that film. Well worth revisiting.

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3. I will put that on my movie list, ty.

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4. Filmed in one take

Well, they had to pause to switch reels, so technically two takes, I guess. But they didn't reshoot any scenes.

Basically they filmed it as a play with a brief intermission.

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7. And the way they switched reels was interesting.

An actor would turn his back to the camera, momentarily blacking it out; everyone would freeze while a new reel was snapped in, then resume action.

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8. interesting! i just remembered is as a "fade to black".

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5. I remember seeing it at some time in my life and that the play was sort of based on a Chicago

murder of a teen by 2 University of Chicago students Leopold & Loeb. It happened almost 100 yrs ago I think in the 20s but living in Chicago I heard about it many times and how it was done basically for psychological "play" I guess for lack of a better words, not revenge, robbery etc.
I do not remember how the movie/play presents it or how true it is that the murders here were the inspiration for the play or movie

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10. Here's the story

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971)[1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ˈloʊb/; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Robert Franks in Chicago. They committed the murder—characterized at the time as "the crime of the century"[2]—as a demonstration of their perceived intellectual superiority, which, they thought, rendered them capable of carrying out a "perfect crime", and absolved them of responsibility for their actions.

After the two men were arrested, Loeb's family retained Clarence Darrow as counsel for their defense. Darrow's 12-hour-long summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive rather than transformative justice. Both young men were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years. Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1936; Leopold was released on parole in 1958.

The Franks murder has been the inspiration for several dramatic works, including Patrick Hamilton's 1929 play Rope and Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name. Later movies, such as Compulsion—adapted from Meyer Levin's 1957 novel—and Swoon, were also based on the crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

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16. Intellectual superiority my ass - one of them left their custom glasses at the scene...

super easy to trace - super easy to solve

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18. Sounds like the early days of asshole culture.

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6. ive seen it.....very disturbing

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9. Did you catch Hitchcock's two cameo appearances?

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11. No I didn't

I know he usually appears somewhere in his films.

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17. Reduco Obesity Slayer

Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In this film, Hitchcock is considered to make two appearances,according to Arthur Laurents in the documentary Rope Unleashed, available on the DVD and Blu-ray. Laurents says that Hitchcock is a man walking down a Manhattan street in the opening scene, immediately after the title sequence.

At 55:19 into the film, a red neon sign in the far background showing Hitchcock's profile with "Reduco", the fictitious weight loss product used in his Lifeboat (1944) cameo, starts blinking; as the guests are escorted to the door actors Joan Chandler and Douglas Dick stop to have a few words, the sign appears and disappears in the background several times, right between their visages, right under the eyes of the spectators.



Hitchcock's cameo appearance as a red neon sign, in the far distance, with his famous profile above the word "Reduco", a fictitious weight-loss product

Continuing his gag cameo from Lifeboat (1944):

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12. That's a good one...

I think it was done in 6 shots

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13. I saw it for the first time a few years back

I read it didn't do well at the time it was released but since its reintroduction, many critics have praised it

I think it was way ahead of its time

Very daring, really

And amusing

and ultimately one of my Hitchcock favourites

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19. Notorious and Shadow of a Doubt are two other Hitchcock films

I enjoy.

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20. Hitch once said that Shadow of a Doubt was his favorite film n/t

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21. I like Psycho, Niagra and Saboteur myself.

He had an amazing career.

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22. That he did.

Notorious, Shadow, Rope and Rebecca make my list.

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23. Ingrid Bergmann was such brilliant actor!!

Esp. in Notorious!!

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24. In Notorious she had the role down pat.

The courage, the fear, the determination, the allure. Can't imagine any other actor in the role.