NORTH BY NORTH WEST

North by North West

Here is the trailer to the best thriller movie of all time:

The trailer is very different to the sort of trailer that we have now and days. This trailer is has someone explaining the movie and what you will be expecting throughout it. It introduces all the main characters like Cary Grant, who was one of the best actors out at that time. Even the poster for the movie, its very different to the posters we have now and days. As the poster shows a little piece of the movie on it.

The thriller movie North By North West was written by the famous Alfred Hitchcock often nicknamed the "Master of Suspense". 

He was boring in London, 1899, for a short time he worked as an engineer before entering into the film industry. He then moved to Hollywood, 1939, to produce his first ever film Rebecca which had won an Academy award for the best picture. Hitchcock he created over 5 films, these included films such as: Rear Window, The 339 Steps and psycho. In all of Hitchcock's films he planned every scene visually in advance. Before shooting Hitchcock had learned all the dialogue and had rarely had to look at the script.  also whenever he was directing he never had to look at the camera. Hitchcock had received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979, but sadly passed in 1980.

Thrillers are usually characterized by  face pacing and frequent action, and this movie surely does include this. This movie included resourceful heroes who tried to thwart the plans of the more powerful equipped villains. It was shown when Roger Thornhill ( Cary Grant) was captured by Phillip Vandamm and their was more of them than him for him to even try to escape. 

Hitchcock also included devices such as suspense, for example the time where Roger Thornhill was being chased by the plane. H also used red herring, this was where we had all thought that the girl Eve Kendall ( Eva Marie Saint) was on the bad guys side, but really and truly she as on the good peoples side, also when she shot Roger, we wasn't expecting this to happen, but it did. Lastly he used the cliff hanger device, this was where Roger and Kendall were literally hanging off a cliff. We were all at the end of our seat wondering if they were going to survive or not. 

Hitchcock believed the stress on visual makes the cinema accessible in all different languages. Hitchcock likes the subjective viewpoint close ups on a face than what they are looking at, then another close up again as the character reacts to what has been see. Hitchcock said he wants to transfer the menace.

In the film North By North West he uses the Mount Rushmore as a symbol of order.

Hitchcock said that the audiences often need a relief from suspense pace of change or possibly a laugh. 

"A thriller is a villain driven plot where by he presents obstacles the hero must come over" This is shown in the auction scene. There were more of him than there were of R. Thornhill, so he tried to create a scene so that he could get arrested, seeing as he didn't have any weapons or any back up to back him up. This had then caused a diversion to the villain plot to how the villain tried to kill the hero. This does cause a build up of tension when it comes to the audience as they would like to see whether or not he survives these obstacles or not. 

There also something called the McGuffin, this is where the spies care about something which is very important to them, but however the audience don't care. All the audience care about is what will happen next? will he survive? hows he going to escape? for example this is due to all the suspense caused. This is showed when Roger Thornhill was at the auction, and he was outnumbered by the people who were after him, so this had left the audience thinking what is going to happen next and whether or not he was going to be able to escape them.

The movie could also include the Enigma, this where it leaves the audience wondering whether or not Roger Thornhill will be finally proven that he is not George Kaplan. This leaves the audience continuously hooked throughout the movie as they want to find out if he survives or not. This is good because then the audience will have no choice but to watch the film all the way to the end. 

The move does also include the Todorov, it starts when Roger Thornhill goes about his everyday life as he normally does, but then as soon as he answers to the name George Kaplan this then changes the whole equilibrium. Mr Thornhill is then forced into trying to prove that he is not George Kaplan throughout the whole movie and along the way he find a friend in a female who knew the whole time that he was not George Kaplan but she betrayed him as she was the girlfriend of the enemy. But finally at the end we find out that George Kaplan isn't a real person which changes the whole equilibrium of the story.