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Film Review - Rope (1948)
Rope is an American crime thriller film that was directed in 1948 by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on a play by Patrick Hamilton in 1929. Rope was Hitchcock's first Technicolour film and the film was also filmed to look as if it was one long and continuous shot. The plot of the film follows two aesthetes named Phillip Morgan and Brandon Shaw, who murder their old classmate; David Kentley. They put his body in a wooden chest and host a dinner party, inviting David's father, aunt, fiancee and her former partner who was once David's friend. Figure 1. Rope (1948) This film features Hitchcock's famous technique of creating tension through revealing information tot he audience but then keeping the characters in the dark. "Hitchcock always wanted to make his audience suffer, and with Rope, guilt, the guilt that Brandon should be feeling, is what makes us miserable. The murderers need an audience to applaud their crimes, and with their dinner guests in the dar...
From Script to Screen - OGR Part 2
I added some more fuller designs of the characters and I softened the females faces. The main character is named Renee and her sister is Matilda. The parents are referred to as the mother and father. The circus is named Lachance which is the family's last name and the family are French as travelling circuses where once very popular in France.
