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After a rooftop chase in which a fellow policeman falls to his death, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson is stricken by a fear of heights and vertigoso severe that he retires. Scottie tries to conquer his fear, but his ex-fiancée, underwear designer Marjorie "Midge" Wood, thinks that another severe emotional shock may be the only cure....
Charles Barr in his monograph dedicated to the study of Vertigo has stated that the central theme of the film is psychological obsession, concentrating in particular on Scottie as obsessed with the women in his life. As Barr states in his book, "This story of a man who develops a romantic obsession with the image of an enigmatic woman has commonly ...
Development
The screenplay of Vertigo is an adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Hitchcock had attempted to buy the rights to the previous novel by the same authors, Celle qui n'était plus (She Who Was No More), but he failed, and it was made instead by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques. Although François Truffaut once suggested that D'entre les morts was specifically written for Hitchcock by Boileau and Narcejac, Narcejac su...
Writing
There were three screenwriters involved in the writing of Vertigo. Hitchcock originally hired playwright Maxwell Anderson to write a screenplay, but rejected his work, which was titled Darkling, I Listen, a quotation from Keats's Ode to a Nightingale. According to Charles Barr in his monograph dedicated to Vertigo, "Anderson was the oldest (at 68) [of the 3 writers involved], the most celebrated for his stage work and the least committed to cinema, though he had a joint script credit for Hitc...
Casting
Vera Miles, who was under personal contract to Hitchcock and had appeared on both his television show and in his film The Wrong Man, was originally scheduled to play Madeleine. She modeled for an early version of the painting featured in the film. Following delays, including Hitchcock becoming ill with gallbladder problems, Miles became pregnant and so had to withdraw from the role. The director declined to postpone shooting and cast Kim Novak as the female lead. By the time Novak had tied up...
Vertigo premiered in San Francisco on May 9, 1958, at the Stage Door Theater at Mason and Geary (now the August Hall nightclub). While Vertigo did break even upon its original release, earning $3.2 million in North American distributor rentalsagainst its $2,479,000 cost, it earned significantly less than other Hitchcock productions.
Contemporaneous reception
The initial reception expressed in film reviews for Vertigo was mixed. Variety wrote the film showed Hitchcock's "mastery", but felt the film was "too long and slow" for "what is basically only a psychological murder mystery". Similarly, Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times admired the scenery, but found the plot took "too long to unfold" and felt it "bogs down" in a maze of detail". Scholar Dan Auiler says that this review "sounded the tone that most popular critics would take with the...
Re-evaluation
Over time the film has been re-evaluated by film critics and has moved higher in esteem in most critics' opinions. Every ten years since 1952, the British Film Institute's film magazine, Sight & Sound, has asked the world's leading film critics to compile a list of the 10 greatest films of all time. In the 2002 Sight & Sound poll of international critics Vertigo was ranked second just behind Citizen Kane (1941) as the best film ever made. Ten years later, the 2012 edition of the same poll res...
Critical works on Vertigo
1. Varietyreview from 1958 2. Robin Wood's chapter on "Vertigo" in Hitchcock's Films 3. Molly Haskell's essay, "With Paintbrush and Mirror: 'Vertigo' & 'As You Desire Me'" in The Village Voice 4. Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, popularizing the concept of the male gaze 5. Roger Ebert's 1996 Review
Kalangarai Vilakkam, a 1965 Tamil film adaptation of Vertigo.One on Top of the Other, a 1969 giallo film directed by Lucio Fulci, is heavily influenced by Vertigo.Obsession, a 1976 film by Brian De Palma, is heavily influenced by Vertigo, while his 1984 thriller Body Double combines the plot elements of both Vertigo and Rear Window.High Anxiety, a 1977 film by Mel Brooks, is a parody of suspense films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, but leans on Vertigoin particular.Auiler, Dan (1999). Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. London: Titan Books.Auiler, Dan (2000). Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-26409-3.Barr, Charles (2002). Vertigo. London: BFI. ISBN 978-0-85170-918-5.Canning, Bob (2010). Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey (eds.). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural...Vertigo at IMDbVertigo at AllMovieVertigo at MetacriticVertigo at Rotten Tomatoes10 hours ago · Box office. $411 million [4] Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction monster film directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman, and the first film in the Pacific Rim franchise. The screenplay was written by Travis Beacham and del Toro from a ...
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