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Hitchcock's Vertigo

2016· article· en· W2565267511 on OpenAlex
Richard Lippe

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Bibliographic record

VenueCineaction! · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSymphonyMovie theaterMeaning (existential)Art historyArtVisual artsSociologyPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TIFF celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2015 and as part of the festivities held a free screening of Vertigo. The screening was accompanied with an on stage performance of the film's score by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra which served to highlight the experience. Making the event even more an occasion, Kim Novak, providing genuine movie star glamour, attended the screening, introducing the film and holding a Q & A session afterwards. The screening and the event prompted me to consider the contemporary approach taken towards the film by critics and the public. Vertigo is arguably Hitchcock's masterpiece and was named the greatest film of all time by a Sight and Sound 2012 polling. Since the early 60s, Hitchcock has been internationally recognized as an auteur. The film is an expression of his personal vision but it is also a collaborative effort which is essential to its realization and meaning. Vertigo, which is Hitchcock's fourth and final film to star James Stewart, belongs to his working relationship with a number of classical cinema's most gifted and iconic star actors. As such, it can be considered as a collaboration of sorts between the director and Stewart. Hitchcock's other longstanding association with actors includes his work with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly. The films he made with these four performers are among his best and that of the participating actors. On each occasion, the pairing of director-actor significantly enhanced the star's screen image and persona, adding a maturity to their respective screen images. For instance, Grant, with Suspicion, while retaining his leading man charm and subversive playfulness, displayed a moral ambiguity that was alternatively seductive and sinister; with Notorious, his character expresses a sexual desire for Bergman's character, who reciprocates, but he also has a compulsive need to reject her, fearing to trust her and have his vulnerability exposed. James Stewart, in Rope, evolves from a Capra idealist to an urbanite, playing a cynical, egoistic philosopher who refuses to take responsibility for his implicit endorsement of murder. In these two examples, Hitchcock, working within the studio system, utilizes the established screen presence and persona of an actor. With a perceptive understanding of an actor's untapped potential, he explores aspects of his or her persona that suit his narrative's needs while adding complexity to the film. Throughout his Hollywood career, Hitchcock's casting choices were often inspired. In addition to casting Novak in Vertigo, other notable choices include Joseph Cotton in Shadow of a Doubt, Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train, Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much and Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh in Psycho. While he may have regretted choosing Montgomery Clift for I Confess, once he began working with the actor and realized his studied performing methodology, Hitchcock's instincts were correct. Clift ideally suited the role both on a visual level and because of his innate sensibility. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By the late 40s, Hitchcock was confronted with the fact that the Hollywood cinema needed star images which reflected post WWII cultural changes. With Grace Kelly, he found an actress who was traditionally beautiful, glamorous and elegant but whose persona suited the popular image of the young modern American woman--cool, flirtatious and knowing. Kelly's status as a major star and best work is found in Rear Window and To Catch a Thief films that displayed her sophistication and skills as a light comedienne. In the latter half of the 50s, after casting Vera Miles in The Wrong Man, Hitchcock intended to make her into a star with Vertigo, exhibiting her range in the dual role of the Madeleine-Judy character. When Miles upset the director's plans for her by becoming pregnant, he was forced to quickly find a replacement. Hitchcock never gave his reasons for casting Novak nor did he make a public comment on her performance after the film's release. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.700
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.180 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it