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VERTIGO - RESSURECTION OF MADELINE - Coggle Diagram
VERTIGO - RESSURECTION OF MADELINE
EDITING
Make up montage
Shows the passing of time
Fades between shots
Going into Scottie's dream
Voyeurism
The fade to and from black
Implies significant time has passed, and that the two might have done something very sussy during that time
MISE EN SCENE / PERFORMANCE
Reading the newspaper at the start of the scene
Observing other people without them knowing (
voyeurism!!!
)
Lots of time spent waiting for Madeline
Builds suspense for the reveal of Madeline
Hitch was known as the master of suspense
Scottie's at Judy's apartment before she is
Has taken control of Judy's private space and life
Madeline reincarnated
Fog surrounds her, and fades away when she moves closer
A ghost coming to life
Green tint
Green = the uncanny, supernatural (the colour of Mads)
Coming out of the frame of the door
Coming out of the picture from afar into the real world of Scottie
Representative of how Hitch and the industry treated his leading ladies, by forcing them to change to become "desirable"
Hitch becoming self aware and possible (hopefully) guilty for his actions
Taken back to the last time they kissed
This moment is like a second chance to wrong a right for Scottie
Hairdressers in white
Women's realm of purity
Judy silhouetted by the light
Objectified - only a woman with to-be-looked-at-ness, not a real person
Green light 99% bathing the purple room at first
Becomes 100% green when Mads takes over
Represents Judy floating away and Mads taking over
Mirror motif continues
Continues the fact that there's more than one Madeline
Mirror Judy is green, hinting at what's going to happen in a few minutes
An usual role for Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy was the Tom Hanks of the day, being the all-round family man and good guy
Seeing him play a manipulative obsessive might have shocked the audience and subverted their expectations
Minimal dialogue, story told mostly through
subjective visuals
PURE CINEMA
(not literally, using techniques that are synonymous and exclusive to film and making the most of them)
Scottie towering over Mads in the final shot
Has complete control over her
Mads is almost (
almost
) horizontal
Implicit sex position
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Only extreme close ups during the montage
Objectifying Madeline by only showing desirable parts of her (eg nails, eyes, hair)
The montage resembles funeral prep, like Judy dying and Madeline being reborn
Zoom in when he sees
Close up = high moment of emotion, heightening our emotional response
The camera "rushes" towards Scottie's head
Scottie getting his erection
POV of Mads from Scottie's perspective
Voyeurism
- us watching Scottie watching Madeline
A relatively long take - a subject of the male gaze, emitting to-be-looked-at-ness
360 degree spiral shot
Moment of high emotion being exaggerated by the world spinning around at a million miles per hour (metaphorically)
Spiraling, repeating that visual motif
Camera slightly tilts down when Scottie sits
SPECTATORSHIP - Recognising our protagonist and who we are forced to align with
MUSIC / SOUND
Eerie music during montage
Can represent the uncanny and disorderly (resurrection of a dead girl)
Spiral leitmotif returns through the cyclical score
Meek, held back music when 99% Madeline arrives
Scottie hasn't reached his "climax" yet
Dirty meaning of the scene
The idea that Scottie is dressing Judy up like Madeline but she won't do her hair is like a man asking a woman to strip, and she won't take her leggings off
Hitch says that this is the scene where Scottie finally gets his erection
Music trills when Judy goes in the bathroom
Nervous anticipation, like Scottie trembling from suspense
Music becomes much more aggressive in this moment
Scottie is reminded of moments that he'd rather forget
The score becomes triumphant at this moment
A major victory for Scottie
Music peaks when he sees Madeline
Scottie has reached his "climax"
The Madeline leitmotif from when Scottie first sees her returns, suggesting that everything that has happened has come full circle
