Rear Window - Hitchcock's Manipulation

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    In this video essay, we break down Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Rear Window. Over his career, Alfred Hitchcock has implemented hundreds of different techniques to control the audience to have them believe one thing. He is a master of manipulation, and in this video I explore how he is able to control the audience into believing one thing to add suspense. In addition, I explore some of the thematic aspects to the film, and look at why Rear Window is heralded as the masterpiece that it is.
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    Rear Window. Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures, 1954.
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Komentáře • 363

  • @dabi6200
    @dabi6200 Před 5 lety +1059

    That’s right, he played us like a piano because we have to write a bloody essay for his movie

    • @Chrisnxtdoor
      @Chrisnxtdoor Před 5 lety +28

      Lol you too?

    • @rithi3193
      @rithi3193 Před 5 lety +6

      Ditto.

    • @melyssarevilla9148
      @melyssarevilla9148 Před 5 lety +20

      Damn, even in Perú we have an exam on this.

    • @charcolew
      @charcolew Před 4 lety +26

      Lucky you! We had only books to analyse, and they were usually 19th-century, dull and overlong. I would have loved a good movie to write about!

    • @elli1080
      @elli1080 Před 4 lety

      samee

  • @mayan23
    @mayan23 Před 3 lety +277

    Anyone else kinda noticed how in the main windows, that are focused on each person serves life, that he can't or does not want to have. The new couple just got married and moved in together which is something he mentioned he didn't want with Lisa. The ballerina who was able to dance and really emphasizes on moving her feet, his legs are broken so he could not. The lonely girl who set up a whole date for herself, while Jeff never really did anything for himself, didn't even sleep in his bed. And the piano guy who was very much a perfectionist, Jeff was never interested in how perfect Lisa was (like the video stated). Idk this is probably a stretch but I think its funny that his amusement and days are taken by only watching lives that he does not have.

    • @saulgoodman1236
      @saulgoodman1236 Před 2 lety +15

      This is great !

    • @ayushsrivastava1672
      @ayushsrivastava1672 Před 2 lety +7

      Jesus, that's a hell of observation

    • @user-rx1vr6gv4o
      @user-rx1vr6gv4o Před 2 lety +6

      the piano guy was Hitchcock lol

    • @Robbyrool
      @Robbyrool Před měsícem +3

      How about this? The windows on the right are where he fears he may end up. Unhappily married (murderer), or lonely single (Miss Lomelyhearts). On the left are where he hopes to end up. Happily married (newlyweds) or happily single (pianist). And in the middle (Miss Torso) is where he is now, toying with affection.

  • @jayrussell1825
    @jayrussell1825 Před 5 lety +278

    We KNOW there was a murder, becuz it's a Hitchcock film

    • @edisonlima4647
      @edisonlima4647 Před 3 lety +1

      Well, that couldn't be helped.
      It's like in "Shutter Island", where a director we KNOW doesn't do supernatural stories is giving us a movie in which the protagonist is currently walking about a sanatory island and he sees his dead wife. Gee, I wonder what the plot twist will be... One can solve most of Shutter Island by the middle of the trailer.

    • @georgeguilfoyle6847
      @georgeguilfoyle6847 Před 3 lety +1

      @@edisonlima4647 I would love to see Scorsese do a supernatural picture tho

    • @diekritischestimme
      @diekritischestimme Před 3 měsíci +1

      Not necessarily. There are Hitchcock movies without murders and the plot could also have been designed around the idea of paranoia and prejudices.

  • @jamesmiddleton6340
    @jamesmiddleton6340 Před 7 lety +308

    one of my favourite movies ever made.

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +18

      Me too!

    • @jayrussell1825
      @jayrussell1825 Před 5 lety +3

      like Thelma Ritter's last line "I don't want any part of it."

    • @adalester9
      @adalester9 Před 4 lety +4

      @@JacksMovieReviews please do an essay on North By Northwest it's my favorite Hitchcock movie.

    • @jacquespoulemer3577
      @jacquespoulemer3577 Před 2 lety +1

      Hitchcock makes it virtually impossible to pick a favorite. I keep bouncing around not only as to which I will obsessively watch for weeks or months on end, but also how I see each film. Psycho went from being a 'scary' movie to a hilarious comedy. Thank you Alfred for complicating our lives so enjoyably, JIM Oaxaca

  • @mohammedili8254
    @mohammedili8254 Před 5 lety +172

    I just watched Rear window and it was a fucking great film..

  • @jeffdougherty1878
    @jeffdougherty1878 Před 4 lety +48

    When I watch Psycho, I feel constantly manipulated. Hitchcock tells the story in such a way that allegiance to the characters changes several times. When the car begins to sink into the swamp, it stops, but I am rooting for Norman and want the car to sink. When it does, I am relieved and glad for Norman - I was manipulated.

  • @PaulJohnson-jq9xw
    @PaulJohnson-jq9xw Před 4 lety +98

    To those who didn’t feel suspense... this is the best kind of suspense. It was the perfect amount at the perfect time. Like a really good glass of fancy scotch rather than a fifth of jack.

    • @normadesmond6017
      @normadesmond6017 Před rokem +1

      well said. They had class back then. just look at Grace....

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 Před rokem +4

      The whole complex relationship with Grace Kelly, her break in to the apartment and then Jeffries watching her across the courtyard just as he has watched all his neighbors until we hear her cry out and the distance between voyeur and object is bridged by her calling his name. This is the most suspenseful scene in the movie and so much else in the movie has gone into making it work like an elegantly designed mouse trap to catch the audience.

  • @neoexplains
    @neoexplains Před 7 lety +49

    I allways loved this movie, I agree with your points. For some reason I was also allways so in love with the sound in "Rear Window". It really adds to making the place feel real.

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +5

      The film is a technical marvel. Everything works together near perfectly to make what is undeniably a great movie.

  • @christopherward5065
    @christopherward5065 Před 6 lety +254

    This film is curiously satisfying and complete. Hitchcock explores the dynamic of male female relationships and plays it for laughs with witty dialogue and little vignettes through windows and gaps in walls. We get perspectives on Thorwald and Jeffries by seeing how Jeffries personal prejudices allow him to identify when something doesn’t fit the norm. Genius. He takes us on a journey exploring a cultural dissonance that gives Thorwald away. The set is a fantastic mock up which you can see needed pretty heavy lighting to get naturalistic effects on the early colour stock. Hitchcock distorts reality by adding foley effects and only allowing words to be heard when necessary. Binoculars and an Exacta give us close ups so that we can read faces or examine distant details that create the mystery. I found this film a million times more entertaining on the big screen because the acting and actions are easier to see. I don’t think anyone has tried this style of film making since. I guess much would be done now using computers and clever composites and sadly, probably with less power, visually. Hitchcock pulls off a wonderful trick in creating a world within a world. Rear Window has a lot of great humour, warmth and a murder mystery and is a compelling watch.

    • @DutchKing
      @DutchKing Před 4 lety +11

      Thank you very much, this is basically 1/7 of my essay :)

    • @TheChazz79
      @TheChazz79 Před 3 lety +1

      the film is boring
      0/0

  • @stuartlee6622
    @stuartlee6622 Před 3 lety +144

    Now in the age of air conditioners this film could never be made

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater Před 3 lety +1

      Funny comment! lol! But of course, not technically true. It could be set during spring instead of summer. :D

    • @stuartmovieshow8352
      @stuartmovieshow8352 Před 3 lety

      @@KindaLikeWater They'd still have air conditioners in their windows.
      Those kinds of buildings wouldn't have had central air.

    • @judithmason9396
      @judithmason9396 Před 2 lety +4

      Jeffries looks out the window because he's confined and bored, not because he's hot. The windows don't need to be open. He could be nicely air-conditioned and still be bored.

    • @stuartlee6622
      @stuartlee6622 Před 2 lety +4

      If there was an AC unit in his window, he'd be unable to spot a great deal of action

    • @SpamEggSausage
      @SpamEggSausage Před rokem

      Not every place has ACs. there was also a CSI:NY episode that paid homage to this movie.

  • @martincisternas4889
    @martincisternas4889 Před 2 lety +48

    This movie is a masterpiece, i enjoyed a lot. And the scene when Thorwald walks up stairs and reach at Jeffrei’s appartment was breath-taking 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @deviateedits
      @deviateedits Před 2 lety +2

      That scene was so tense. Jeff goes from a position of power and control to absolute vulnerability, and all it took was for someone to catch onto and challenge his voyeurism

  • @saiashwin26
    @saiashwin26 Před 5 lety +65

    A key aspect of the film is the relationship between Jeff and Lisa which is juxtaposed using the neighbors' lives.

    • @cardona89
      @cardona89 Před 3 lety +5

      Exactly!!! And this aspect is overlooked. He carries an adventurous life and she is so shallow ("cocktails, parties, parties") that he wonders if she is the "right one". He has serious doubts. SPOILERS!!!: When she gets involved in the investigation of the crime, even risking her own life, he is just fascinated. He begins discovering her real personality! Brilliant!!!

  • @nicholas4727
    @nicholas4727 Před 5 lety +31

    I find it so satisfying that all of Hitchcocks films feel so original and new but yet Everytime you are watching it you can tell it is a htchcock film just because it has that feel. I love that about his movies.

    • @eric4464
      @eric4464 Před 2 lety +1

      Nicholas
      Do you think that applies to " The Trouble With Harry"?

  • @nikayalohr9707
    @nikayalohr9707 Před 4 lety +32

    We watched this in a Creative Writing class. By far one of the best movies ever made.

  • @euanelliott3613
    @euanelliott3613 Před 3 lety +25

    James Stewart made a likeable star, Grace Kelly was the perfect female lead and Raymond Burr made a menacing killer.

  • @robertdemitro1520
    @robertdemitro1520 Před 2 lety +5

    Mr. Hitchcock was a very creative director , producer and writer . I think he was so good at his craft because prior to actually working on films he worked the background of movies . He created sets for movies and knew every aspect from sound to what actors , music , camera angles and even wardrobe . He would notice the finest details in the production . But his ability to see the story line from multiple perspectives is really how he captured the audiences attention !

  • @Robbyrool
    @Robbyrool Před měsícem +2

    How about this? The windows on the right are where he fears he may end up. Unhappily married (murderer), or lonely single (Miss Lomelyhearts). On the left are where he hopes to end up. Happily married (newlyweds) or happily single (pianist). And in the middle (Miss Torso) is where he is now, toying with affection.

  • @pypeworld
    @pypeworld Před 5 lety +18

    Great review. Rear Window is my favorite Hitchcock flick, as I really like the whole atmospheric setting.

  • @elizabethfaraone
    @elizabethfaraone Před 4 lety +17

    Love, love, love this movie from head to toe.

    • @anaranjadisimo
      @anaranjadisimo Před 4 lety +3

      I felt the same as I was watching... the kissing scene has to be one of the most erotic ones I have ever watched.

  • @mcgiannis1129
    @mcgiannis1129 Před 3 lety +6

    6:33-6:43 Hitchcock's cameo!!!

  • @TheFeanor74
    @TheFeanor74 Před 5 lety +30

    There is this kind of remake/reinterpretation of the Hitchcock classic, called "Disturbia" staring Shia LaBeouf. I don't want to talk about how it compares to "Rear Window" (or whether it is a good movie on its own or not) but on a very minuscule detail that really pi**ed me off .
    In Germany there is this very bad habit of taking the original title of an Hollywood movie and supplement it with a German subtitle for promotion (because obviously audiences are so stupid that they would not understand what an upcoming movie is going to be about without getting it stuffed into their faces).
    For "Disturbia", some GENIUS choose the German title "Distubia - Auch Killer haben Nachbarn" (which translates to something like "Disturbia - even killers have neighbors"), so they choose to SPOILER in the movie title. I mean how dumb can you be to ruin any suspense a thriller might have like this?

    • @jacquespoulemer3577
      @jacquespoulemer3577 Před 2 lety

      Fingolfin, In Mexico we have exactly the same problem. They translate titles in many unfortunate ways. They not only include spoilers but introduce a ton of unnecessary and sometimes misleading things in the translations. As a polyglot I am ALWAYS correcting subtitles, to my friends or in my mind. 🙂 Dein Nachtbar aber kein Killer, JIM aus Oaxaca Mexiko

  • @MissWitchiepoo
    @MissWitchiepoo Před rokem +1

    For me it's the atmosphere. You have these different buildings that you would like to live it and then no film music instead you have the sounds from all the apartments like the wonderful piano music, the sounds from the party and the open windows and even the wonderful yard. You can even see the street outside through the alley Then you have his own apartment that is really cosy and when she comes with dinner and she is wearing beautiful dresses you wish this was you. We have a word in my country "Hygge" that is special for our country and something we really enjoy and the closest translation is feeling cosy. I will watch it often just to enjoy that feeling. The newer movie totally lack this feeling you get from the old version.

  • @girlwithamoviecamera3020
    @girlwithamoviecamera3020 Před 7 lety +28

    I really enjoyed this! I am working on a video essay on REAR WINDOW, as well, but only on a specific clip. I loved the connection between the Hitchcock's piano quote and the image of the character playing the piano, it's really great!

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +3

      Awesome, make sure you leave a link to it down in the comments, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see it!

  • @cilantrolime
    @cilantrolime Před 2 lety +3

    Honestly, the rear window acts as a kind of picture plane for a composition to be on. The placement of the buildings is super effective, especially with the vertical strip which he can just barely see out of.

  • @ThomasPollock95
    @ThomasPollock95 Před 7 lety +56

    Another excellent dissection Jack! You grasp very well the work of Hitchcock, and his terrific use of Voyeurism in this film.

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +8

      Hitchcock has single handily changed the modern movie more than any other director, I'm glad to be able to shed some light on part of what makes him so great.

    • @ThomasPollock95
      @ThomasPollock95 Před 7 lety

      I have been meaning to do film analysis videos for a long time, and I am kicking it off soon. I have done long discussions of movies though. I like the style you have done yours in.

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +2

      Thomas Pollock
      Awesome, make sure you let me know when you upload it, I would love to see it!

    • @ThomasPollock95
      @ThomasPollock95 Před 7 lety

      you a fan of Taxi Driver?

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +2

      Thomas Pollock
      I love Taxi Driver, one of my favorite Scorsese movies!

  • @tbonejones1427
    @tbonejones1427 Před 4 lety +2

    Years ago with the start of VCR tapes we rented this movie the kids weren’t necessarily interested at first but soon they all tuned in ,with the one girl even saying get out of his apartment out loud I knew then I picked a winner for their introduction to Hitchcock

  • @stevee.2183
    @stevee.2183 Před 4 měsíci

    Ever since I first saw this when I was 13 or so, I have loved this movie. The color, the clothes, the sound, the dialogue, the relationships, and of course, the suspense!
    I really appreciate you breaking down how the relationships Jeffries observes are showing, or challenging, his hesitancies to be happy.
    Subscribed!

  • @emiliab9322
    @emiliab9322 Před 4 lety +53

    The film never left jeffries’ room which is just ... how?

    • @juniperberryyyy
      @juniperberryyyy Před 3 lety +11

      Hitchcock is a great director, that's how

    • @Thermopylae66
      @Thermopylae66 Před 3 lety +2

      I did not quite notice until after I watched this video.😅

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater Před 3 lety

      Effing brilliance. lol

    • @Abrabeck82
      @Abrabeck82 Před 3 lety

      @@juniperberryyyy he's THE BEST director

    • @AlonsoRules
      @AlonsoRules Před 2 lety +1

      12 Angry Men had 90% of the film in one room

  • @bighuge1060
    @bighuge1060 Před 7 lety

    Love this video! Also LOVE this movie. The sound design and fantastic set teaming with life coupled with first rate writing, directing and acting makes this one I come back to repeatedly. You have yourself a new subscriber, Jack!

  • @truefilm1556
    @truefilm1556 Před 7 lety +1

    Really great video as always! Yes: Hitchcock does play me like a piano - and I have seen almost all of his movies. There is so much more to many a Hitchcock movie - and as always you are hinting at it. Just a small example: the uncanny similarity between the two women in "Strangers On A Train". His master stroke was perhaps "Psycho" which has (at least) two major twists (or shifts), besides being made by his TV camera crew in black and white, contrasting to the lush VistaVision cinematography of "Vertigo". Thanks for providing your great insight. You manage the near-impossible: coming up with new and fresh takes on a great master's work with so much already written about it. Thanks again!

  • @graceg5999
    @graceg5999 Před 4 lety +1

    That ending segway was smooth lol. I never noticed he was in Mr. Pianist's apartment ... Clever!

  • @kdmbalaji5451
    @kdmbalaji5451 Před 2 lety +2

    Great take on the relationship stuff. explains a lot and opened a new version of the movie.

  • @patrickhershey3134
    @patrickhershey3134 Před 3 lety +1

    Great life lessons in this movie. Thanks for bringing them to light.

  • @Bob-sr2mt
    @Bob-sr2mt Před 7 lety +16

    You did a really good job.Hitchcock is my best director and rear window combines technical and artistic skills in a manner that makes this an unusually good piece of murder mystery entertainment

  • @boombang5750
    @boombang5750 Před 6 lety +1

    After seeing the movie I saw your analysis Jack. It was an engaging film because Hitchcock never revealed about the murder in the film, we don't even see a drop of blood, we are driven by suspicion only.
    But to be honest the basic plot is quite simple as compared to our modern thrillers we have grown up watching like Shutter Island, The Invitation.
    My favourite Hitchcock film is Vertigo. In fact it is the most suspenseful film I have watched till date.

  • @dethdelr9574
    @dethdelr9574 Před 7 lety +1

    Great Job Jack. I enjoyed the video. Hope you do more Hitchcock. I like that last part about Hitchcock really does see us because he is the inside man the whole time. Thanks, Keep up the good work

  • @kpcinema8955
    @kpcinema8955 Před 7 lety +8

    Wow, really cool video! I love Rear Window and this was an interesting watch!

  • @saigokun
    @saigokun Před 7 lety +32

    This was a great analysis. I have subscribed.

  • @danielsun1463
    @danielsun1463 Před 7 lety

    You make a lot of valid arguments and points that will help me with an essay I have to write about this movie on. I appreciate that. Might need to pull an all nighter on this essay, last minute thing.

  • @josephgavrilides8383
    @josephgavrilides8383 Před 5 lety

    This is one of your best analyses!

  • @veronicaclarke7499
    @veronicaclarke7499 Před 6 lety +8

    I'm a huge fan of Hitchcock, nice analysis of this film

  • @PotatoeJin
    @PotatoeJin Před 3 lety

    thank you for making this video! It really furthered my understanding of the genius of Hitchcock's films!

  • @ThePsycoDolphin
    @ThePsycoDolphin Před 3 lety +1

    I think it may be the best use of the cinematic medium I've ever seen. Not the best *movie* ever (although undoubtedly up there, my absolute favourite of his) but the best in terms of it being a filmic experience. I couldn't be done in any of other medium. At all. I half thought at one point while watching it that it would make a good stage play. But the stage would have to be huge, and it would lose what's so amazing about this film - the camera. We see through the camera, which is James Stewart, which means the medium we watch films through, the camera, is connected totally to the character, making us, on a way, the character as well. Hence, you cannot help by being totally sucked in, mesmerised by the constantly shifting camera showing pockets of life all around, snapshots of existence, brief but brilliant. Were given almost totally the same perspective as Stewart, nothing outside is allowed at all. So its simultaneously limited yet within this little world concocted vast, an entire canopy of human experience presented to us. The camera is both objective in letting us see it all (like most films), and deeply subjective, only allowing us to see what Stewart wants. The distance usually between us and the protagonist in a book or a stage play is utterly quashed, meaning we are playing the same game as he us, doubting and guessing and scrutinising. We are almost literally in the characters place. How can not be engrossing? Not be utterly absorbing?
    Its also one of the most hypnotic films I've ever watched. Time passes effortlessly. The constant fluid slide of the camera from one room to another gives a constant sense of motion, of tension, so when something abnormal does happen it sticks out all the more for being so out of the usual slide of the camera. Think of that scene when Kelley goes over to the mans house, and he's coming home, and we cam see *both* happening at the same time, nearly made my heart jump out of my chest. Watching something from afar, through Stewart's eyes, then realising that thing is directly related to whats going on to us (or Stewart) is just phenomenal. Or think of the scene when the killer looks directly at the window where Stewart is. Were so used to seeing this all go on without anyone noticing, we, the audience, being always outside a film, never think they're connected to us. But when he stares dead ahead at Stewart, and thus the camera, and thus at *us*, the experience is almost mind blowing. Like reality been broken or something. That's *not* meant to happen in films, and thus all the more jarring. At yet its not some surreal postmodetn trick either, he hasn't broken the fourth wall. It still works in context, its still party of the story and his world. Its just staggering.
    Its just the most amazing use of filming technique I've ever seen, almost beyond belief really. And Hitchcock did it all with such seeming efortless ability,cranking one after another for decades, each one a technical masterpiece after the other. Its just spellbinding.

  • @PedroGBSilva
    @PedroGBSilva Před 4 lety +2

    Just watched the movie for the first time. For the entirety of the runtime I was really in the edge of my seat, this was spectacular

  • @montybogies
    @montybogies Před 7 lety +2

    Hitchcock was a true genius & when you see his brilliance explained like this it only makes you realise just how clever the man really was in so many ways ..... this film was always one of my favourites & still is.

  • @anitaroth364
    @anitaroth364 Před 7 lety

    Bye the way, I enjoy you explaining each movie, especially there are a few I haven't seen, & want to experience more now.

  • @timirish2563
    @timirish2563 Před 3 lety

    Excellent analysis--the visuals back up the scholarship perfectly.

  • @Sandra-hc4vo
    @Sandra-hc4vo Před 7 lety

    well done at picking the parts of this movie apart. I have watched a few Hitchcock movies, and they have all been really enjoyable.

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +1

      Thanks Sandra! There are a lot of "classic" movies that hold up really well, and most Hitchcock movies are in that category.

  • @Joseluispm71
    @Joseluispm71 Před 4 lety

    Man, what a excellent video. Congratulations!!!

  • @markweinberg8116
    @markweinberg8116 Před 5 lety

    Thanks for the excellent analysis!

  • @dennisswaim8210
    @dennisswaim8210 Před 8 měsíci

    I just saw this movie 2 weekends ago it's a masterpiece. It's always good to watch it after several years cause it seems fresh again and you always pick up new elements from it.

  • @SubhansVault
    @SubhansVault Před 7 lety +59

    I have watcged PSYCHO, VERTIGO AND REAR WINDOW
    which one should I watch next ?

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +46

      I'm a big fan of Strangers on A Train!

    • @44almm
      @44almm Před 7 lety +11

      the birds

    • @VerryLongName
      @VerryLongName Před 7 lety +12

      Subhan's Vault every single one
      I like them all. Try Shadow of a Doubt. It's Hitch's favorite

    • @JakeG-gp4qt
      @JakeG-gp4qt Před 7 lety +4

      Subhan's Vault Watch Strangers on a Train! It's one of Hitchcock's best films imo.

    • @rnilu86
      @rnilu86 Před 7 lety +21

      North by Northwest. Great thriller adventure movie.

  • @nicholaslvov8363
    @nicholaslvov8363 Před 4 lety

    Wonderful work !

  • @davidvasquez4380
    @davidvasquez4380 Před 7 lety +1

    Thanks for posting..Really enjoyed it..

  • @jonaharbet1504
    @jonaharbet1504 Před 6 lety

    Great analysis. Thank you!

  • @tougologo
    @tougologo Před 7 lety +23

    Damn that was really really good,I love what you done, great job !

  • @razkhan4375
    @razkhan4375 Před 4 lety +1

    One I first watched this movie..
    I was amazed.. my favourite movie of all time..

  • @charlieponikvar20
    @charlieponikvar20 Před 5 lety

    great video, love the commentary

  • @Max_Drunk
    @Max_Drunk Před 3 lety +1

    Rear Window is my fav of Hitchcock movies. A masterpiece!

  • @mznaeture
    @mznaeture Před 4 lety +4

    Keyword: mindgame 💯 great review thx 👏🏾

  • @photographyfieldtrip2220
    @photographyfieldtrip2220 Před 7 lety +3

    Nice video! What font did you use for the "controlling the audience in rear window" part of the clip

  • @user-xj3ve7wt8k
    @user-xj3ve7wt8k Před 3 měsíci

    For me, one of the best hitchcock movie. Superb camera

  • @tuckend
    @tuckend Před 4 lety +6

    man i just watched this film for the first time and 🤯

  • @12gmkk29
    @12gmkk29 Před rokem +1

    An amazing movie and grace kelly was so beautiful
    And the ending scene wow

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 Před 2 lety +3

    Always thought Miss Lonelyheart was a war widow whose husband died about 10 years ago. After grieving and being alone for a long time she realizes that she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life that way, but is rather defeated by the fact that most men who did return from the war are now taken. So, she drinks kind of heavy, likely as a pickmeup, dreading that her campaign to meet a new single man will end in loneliness anyhow.

  • @rommelorlando9718
    @rommelorlando9718 Před 7 lety

    uuuh boi this was a great analysis!!!!

  • @billybobgeo
    @billybobgeo Před 7 lety

    fantastic analysis -- i especially liked the hip-hop of the hitchcock cameo -- it found me trying to see if he broke the fourth wall and looked out at the audience --- playing that piano with no hands i suppose -- cheers!

  • @WhatsinTheFrameilovemoviees

    Great as always man !

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +1

      Thank you! Are you working on any new projects coming soon?

    • @WhatsinTheFrameilovemoviees
      @WhatsinTheFrameilovemoviees Před 7 lety

      currently working on it but procrastination is all over me that summer.. wanting to congratulate you on your rythm and quality of videos , keep up the good work and the subscribers' count growing bro !

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +1

      What's in The Frame
      Thanks and you too! I can't wait to see what's next

  • @MichaelTBhatty
    @MichaelTBhatty Před 7 lety +2

    Thank you very much. This is excellent material for my students. ;-)

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 7 lety +2

      Cool! You are of course more than welcome to use this for educational purposes, but I would ask that you direct your students to my channel. Thank you!

  • @LicoInvestments
    @LicoInvestments Před 3 lety

    On point analysis. Thanks.

  • @Woozler554
    @Woozler554 Před 6 lety

    Well done analysis, Jack.

    • @JacksMovieReviews
      @JacksMovieReviews  Před 6 lety +1

      Thank you!

    • @RanBlakePiano
      @RanBlakePiano Před rokem

      @@JacksMovieReviews tried to,leave message
      Jack ,you re doing a terrific job
      I hope you ll do a lecture on Claude Chabrol ,my favorite . Ran ,co author of storyboarding noir

  • @ouddasbrennt8876
    @ouddasbrennt8876 Před 7 lety

    Great Video!! Really enjoyed that one

  • @lioness7582
    @lioness7582 Před rokem

    All the times I've seen this movie and never had seen Hitchcock in it, never even thought to look!

  • @girishchandra8996
    @girishchandra8996 Před 6 lety

    excellent dissection

  • @MACphd1
    @MACphd1 Před 6 lety

    Did you base your analysis on Giorgio Biancorosso's discourse in "Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema?"

  • @markrice9377
    @markrice9377 Před 3 lety

    Nice insights... Thanks...

  • @estefanobarriga4767
    @estefanobarriga4767 Před 5 lety +3

    Great for my class "The films of Alfred Hitchcock"!!! Go USFQ!!

  • @robbie19371
    @robbie19371 Před 5 lety +3

    Having seen this film several times, I never noticed it before but that short bald man in the piano player's room is Hitchcock.

    • @swissuz
      @swissuz Před 4 lety

      hi Robbie....if you watch all his movies, Hitchcock makes a brief cameo in each one of them. Best movies ever.

  • @MIZORAM_mafaka_hnamte
    @MIZORAM_mafaka_hnamte Před 7 lety +1

    *I just watched Rear Window... This is just awesome anlaysis*
    *I need to watch it again :) :)*

  • @MFLimited
    @MFLimited Před rokem +2

    Thank you for the review and for your point about what makes people right for each other.
    But, I could not understand why Grace Kelly’s character wanted to be with Jimmy Stewart. He seemed so condescending and pretty disinterested in her. Interested in her physically but, otherwise he thought she was basically a shallow woman from a silly world. On the other hand, she was a wealthy, beautiful intelligent socialite with A busy life of Business and friends. Why does she want to be with a poor photographer/journalist Who talked down to her and was old enough to be her father?
    It wasn’t until she stopped talking about her own life and became involved only in his stuff that he showed an interest in her. 100% of the effort to change was hers. Even at the end she moves over his life but sneaked part of her own, albeit very little. I suppose it was romantic, but I don’t think they could have lasted. when they weren’t kissing, he mostly spoke to her like a rich spoiled daughter. Can that truly make somebody happy?
    The message that looks don’t matter was kind of destroyed into personalities don’t matter…

  • @christopherwong9576
    @christopherwong9576 Před 6 lety

    Thank you Uso ! That made a lot of sense but please use film lingo it’ll help film students in the future

  • @sukruaydn6939
    @sukruaydn6939 Před 3 lety

    That was an awesome movie even though it hadn't any different scene places. Especially the conversations were really from the daily life and you could easily put yourself in it. among all the conversations, I liked the nurse's ones. But; I wonder why was the last part of the movie so short? suppose, It should have continued a bit more and should have been seen more in good days.

  • @cynthiaschultheis1660
    @cynthiaschultheis1660 Před 2 lety +1

    Read his stories, watched his tv series and all his films...a true master😎

  • @tristannolan8684
    @tristannolan8684 Před 3 lety

    Great dissection

  • @davidcawrowl3865
    @davidcawrowl3865 Před 3 lety

    My take: this is a movie about Grace Kelly--"Lisa" or as Jeff would call her "Leeza"--from the first full facial image of her to the closing scene of her full reclining image with the theme song devoted to her with "Lisa" pronounced. Among Hollywood's most beautiful and a fashion plate throughout the movie, the whole Thorwall/murder theme runs secondary.

  • @glh2473
    @glh2473 Před 4 lety +3

    My favorite hitchcock movie and my favorite movie of all time!

    • @drsoe08
      @drsoe08 Před 3 lety +2

      I agree, the way Hitchcock built the suspense and mystery in this film is epic.

  • @astropictures4396
    @astropictures4396 Před 3 lety +1

    Imagine just existing as Alfred Hitchcock....fucking directorial perfection

  • @ipsurvivor
    @ipsurvivor Před 5 lety +3

    I found myself getting frustrated when Lisa pulled Jeff away from the window. This was brilliant audience manipulation on Hitchcock’s part. The identification with Jeff means we want to see what he sees and to hear what he hears. Once we have that connection with his voyeurism we resent when our access is cut off.
    In reference to voyeurism one of my favorite shots is when is when he uses his giant, super-sized telephoto lens and on the lens that is visible (those things have multiple lenses inside them) there is a reflection of of the facing apartment windows. If anyone knows how that shot was achieved I would love to know. Did they simply get a naturally occurring reflection of the set or did they put an image in front of it to exaggerate the reflection? He has this powerful lens and feels isolated in his apartment but the joke’s on him because he seemingly has hundreds of windows which are like eyes looking back at him.

  • @ldk8
    @ldk8 Před 4 lety +1

    Better than Vertigo imo and even more tense than Psycho. The window shot it one of the most chilling scenes in cinema history

  • @FlipsTheTrips
    @FlipsTheTrips Před 6 lety

    love this video!!

  • @joeimjoe
    @joeimjoe Před 7 lety +1

    What do you think about the ending of the movie, specifically about Thorwald being the murder?

  • @ipsurvivor
    @ipsurvivor Před 5 lety +1

    Great analysis- watched this several times over the last few days.
    There are lots of levels.
    Many of the people are artists. I got to thinking about when this was released and what was happening then. 1954... The heart of McCarthyism... McCarthyism focused very heavily on persecuting and spying on artists Also on the second viewing I didn’t view L. B. Jeffries in a positive light. He’s quite rude to Lisa.
    “Jeff” and Lisa are also “artists” but note their professions... She is in the print medium as a writer and Jeff as a magazine photographer... She offers to advance his career through her influence in print. He focuses on sensational photography of war and so on... They represent the use of the media by McCarthyism. Also in some respects they represent the intrusive government/media complex. Note that L. B. Jeffries is similar to J. Edgar Hoover the longtime head of the FBI.
    Jeff is a voyeur who looks upon his neighbors with condescension and thinks he has them all figured out. He is not particularly moved ever by the song and other music that many others including Lisa and “Miss Lonely Hearts” are moved by.
    The artists are the dancer Miss Torso, The songwriter and his company/visitors, the unseen singer who practices scales, and the sculpture lady who lives near Thorwald’s garden. And Jeff and Lisa who talk about Lisa’s creativity... Though they frustrate each other’s creative impulses.
    If one is objective they got lucky. There are so many logical explanations and the snooping that was done on Thorwald wasn’t really justified. In a way the biggest tragedy of the film is that they were right about Thorwald being a murderer.
    Thorwald also represents Hitchcock’s former producer David O. Selznick who from Hitch’s point of view butchered and murdered his own artwork, his films.
    Note that his spying has escalating levels... The human eye to the binoculars to the telescopic lens attached to his camera.
    Note Jeff’s lack of concern for constitutional protection. Of course the intrusion is “justified” in their minds because they use the ruse of helping people but most of it is gratuitous like his peeping on Miss Torso.
    Also the film is portrayed as taking place in Greenwich Village in New York, a place many Bohemians and Communist sympathizers called home going back decades before the film was made.

  • @tugginalong
    @tugginalong Před 3 lety

    Thank you for educating me

  • @michauxburn
    @michauxburn Před 6 měsíci

    Yes he's called the Master of Suspense - one of his filmmaking techniques is making sure the door to this apartment is kept unlocked ..:

  • @AndrewGarland
    @AndrewGarland Před 3 lety +1

    rear window is definitely my favorite movie of all time

  • @mojojojojowhitequeen1614

    Subbed plus im english and i love your voice

  • @adarshjose3891
    @adarshjose3891 Před 4 lety

    I loved this video 😍

  • @jflack6
    @jflack6 Před 2 lety

    I love this movie and watch it multiple times a year. For some reason, I watch it a lot more in the summer… hmmm.
    One part I cannot stand is when Lisa goes into the Thorwald apartment and Lars catches her. Jeff (w/ Stella) just kinda cringe and sort of contort while watching the struggle. In my head I’m saying, “Scream! Yell the cops are coming! Let her go!”. Just irks me to sit there and cower.
    Love the vid! Still love the move!

  • @debbieking5171
    @debbieking5171 Před 2 lety +1

    Greetings boys and girls, interesting facts: three of the characters in this movie, went on to be in episodes of PERRY MASON. 1. WENDELL COREY, 2 FRANK CADY 3 MISS JESSLYN FAX. It would be interesting to know if they reminice about it while filming PERRY MASON 😉.

  • @AeolianSkinner
    @AeolianSkinner Před rokem

    I like your Rear Window font. Wat is the name?