Movie Title: Rope
Year: 1948
Rated: PG
Duration: 1hr 20mins
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Tagline: It Begins With a Shriek... It Ends With a Shot!
so I decided to watch all 4 of Stewart and Hitchcock movies, I've already seen Rear Window and now this. Rope was their first film together. Even though James doesn't show up till after 27 minutes, they kept on talking about his character before that which makes the audience eagerly await his appearance.
Rope is about two friends Brandon and Phillip who decide to kill their friend David with a rope and in this way they consider themselves extraordinary by achieving something that other people won't normally do, after killing the guy, Phillip is nervous and has guilty written all over him, Brandon, on the other hand, is taking it so normally and even invites David's relatives and soon to be finance Janet and Rupert - a person Brandon believes is a clever man that might figure out their act - and to make things even more challenging and to consider the murder a masterpiece Brandon puts the dinner they're about to eat on the chest that contains the body.
I enjoyed this movie and it was nice to see how people act after an act of murder; i also loved how they kept on bringing the chest, there was even a whole shot where we can hear the party's conversation but the camera was set on the chest alone. I also liked the ending in how Rupert was shocked to see that his words inspired the two killers to do their ridiculous stunt just to prove their superiority.
****Here's a quote from the film to show that there's some humor in it .
Rupert: Brandon's spoken of you.
Janet: Did he do me justice?
Rupert: Do you deserve justice?
**** a little trivia for you
- this was the first Hitchcock COLOR film
- out of the 4 movies together, James Stewart didn't like this one, he felt that he was miscast
**** some scenes i liked
so I decided to watch all 4 of Stewart and Hitchcock movies, I've already seen Rear Window and now this. Rope was their first film together. Even though James doesn't show up till after 27 minutes, they kept on talking about his character before that which makes the audience eagerly await his appearance.
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| Philip, Rupert, Brandon |
Rope is about two friends Brandon and Phillip who decide to kill their friend David with a rope and in this way they consider themselves extraordinary by achieving something that other people won't normally do, after killing the guy, Phillip is nervous and has guilty written all over him, Brandon, on the other hand, is taking it so normally and even invites David's relatives and soon to be finance Janet and Rupert - a person Brandon believes is a clever man that might figure out their act - and to make things even more challenging and to consider the murder a masterpiece Brandon puts the dinner they're about to eat on the chest that contains the body.
****Here's a quote from the film to show that there's some humor in it .
Rupert: Brandon's spoken of you.
Janet: Did he do me justice?
Rupert: Do you deserve justice?
**** a little trivia for you
- this was the first Hitchcock COLOR film
- out of the 4 movies together, James Stewart didn't like this one, he felt that he was miscast
**** some scenes i liked
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| Something from the something something... |
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| just him casually gathering info |
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| the ending |
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