A theme that Christopher Nolan seemed to take into his film, Memento, in 2000. One of the most impressive aspects about Vertigo is that it's clearly framed as a story about someone with Vertigo dealing with a peculiar case, but really, it's about obsession, and a man digging just a little bit too deep into a case. There's nothing quite like the shock of watching it for the first time, but I had a chance to dig my teeth into the legendary performances of James Stewart and Kim Novak while being dazzled by Hitchcock's meticulously crafted story. In honor of Alfred Hitchcock's birthday, I decided to re-watch Vertigo and reevaluate just how well it holds up upon repeated viewings.
VERTIGO HITCHCOCK MOVIE
Excellent film.Īlfred Hitchcock wowed audiences for decades with an immense talent of deception and artistic flare, and perhaps no movie was a better showcase for those talents than his 1958 hit Vertigo. Hitchcock's delving into dark places of the mind, his storytelling, and his camera angles, are all superlative. There are several stunning moments, which I won't spoil, and the ending is absolutely brilliant. It feels like a quiet movie with its pace and small cast, but there is tension and mystery throughout. The film takes place in absolutely gorgeous scenery in San Francisco, Muir Woods and Mission San Juan Bautista, and it's at once both dream-like and nightmarish. Jimmy Stewart turns in a great performance, but as a nitpick, he's twice the age of Kim Novak (50 and 25), and also looks too old to have gone to college with his sidekick Barbara Bel Geddes (who's great by the way). There is creepy sexual desire, and what self-abasing lengths a woman will go to do what 'does it' for a man. From the opening credits, Hitchcock makes us uneasy with spiraling patterns on the screen, which hints at the vertigo/acrophobia to follow, but what we find are so many other disturbances and twists of the mind: obsession, guilt, insanity, and manipulation. There was computer games that used oscilloscopes).What a wonderful, creepy, beautiful, disturbing film this is. Sometimes, the target of the animation is the computer itself, but sometimes film as well.Ħ) There was early examples of proto-computer animation called oscilloscope films - that was not really considered as computer graphics today (altough in 1940-50s Still used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time renderings. Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompassesīoth static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to the moving images. (son of John Whitney) later did computer effectsįor Westworld (1973) - another revolutionary movie in CGI history.ĥ) Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images. Gun director generated the spiral drawings used in Vertigo’s opening sequence.Ĥ) John Whitney Sr. The movement of the pendulum in relation to the rotation of the
He placed his animation cels on the platform that held the gun director, andĪbove it suspended a pendulum from the ceiling which held a pen that was connected to a 24-foot high pressurized paint reservoir.
Realized that the gun director could rotate endlessly, and in perfect synchronization with the swinging of a pendulum. Alas, no animation stand of that time could continuously rotate without its wiring getting messed up.-computer animation used instead.
Rotating table (specifically an animation stand). Spirals that correspond to the staircase that triggers Scottie’s Vertigo.ģ) Saul Bass insisted that the spirals, which represent 19th century equations, should be accurate and not drawn freehand, which requited both a pendulum and a For Vertigo there is a strong spiral element in the opening sequence,
Computer animation used first time in history.Ģ) Opening sequence (designed by Saul Bass) correspond with motifs from the movie itself. He collaborated with the graphic designer Saul Bass. Pendulum to achieve the needed endless rotation. He then placed cels on that platform and used a It was a mechanical computer which needed 5 soldiers to operate, but a computer nonetheless. 1) Hitchcock hired John Whitney to made computer animated opening sequence, Whitney rigged up a WWII 850-lbs, 11,000-components anti-aircraft targetingĬomputer called "The M5 gun director" to a platform.
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