Vertigo

[CraigASilver]

I just discovered listening to a classical music station (WQXR) that the main Vertigo theme was taken from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Never knew I loved Wagner (or a wee bit of him). It's also used in the movie "The Artist." Check out my original song "Here's To Alfred Hitchcock," right here on YouTube. Just click on my name below or search CraigASilver.

[NBradyful]

@CraigASilver You are correct, and now that silly ass Novak is screeching that The Artist stole from Vertigo thus proving that beauty is fleeting, dumb is forever.

[mattgnyc1]

@NBradyful Kim is not a silly ass and is not dumb. Bernard Herrmann's score should never have been used. The score of "The Artist" should have been composed by one of today's Bernard Herrmanns, do they exist? "The Artist" is a fine film, it would have been greater with it's own score. To Miss Novak, those collection of notes will only continue to bring to this mind, you and Jimmy Stewart, Rapture!

[TheSuperalexxm]

Did this song for our ballad for marching season it was beautiful

[HonJao]

I will admit that Jimmy Stewart's acting for the entire movie was excellent, but I personally hate the character of John Ferguson. I mean I liked him in the beginning, but by the end he was just kind of pathetic. I'm sorry.

[tuxedosponge]

@HonJao I do believe that was the idea. He's not a likable guy. He's an obsessive creep who just might be on to something.

[trinakatbrewster]

i think the kissing scene is romantic and HOT!

[castletracker]

Just a personal bias re not likeing Stewart in the role....I felt he worked perfectly, though admitedly he did begin to have a more aged appearance around this time...due in part no doubt, to his being so thin, and ravages on the skin from the tans male actors often kept that complimented the technicolor...

[cyrus138]

I've always wondered why she's lit green when she comes out of the door as Madeleine.

[RogueRotting360]

@cyrus138 There's a neon light outside the window.

[lucbietry]

La narration par l'image d'un suspens érotico-policier (est-ce elle ou pas ?) ou la quintessence du ciné. Photo et zic au diapason. Le film que j'ai le plus vu au cinéma.

[grandebulla]

Absolute impressive!! One of the most beautiful, haunting, romantic film ever made. One masterpiece

[marcostar57]

Classic Hitchcock thriller ..his best I think. The setting; San Francisco and the Bay area..so hauntingly romantic; the great musical score so deep and moving, and the great acting make this one of my favorite movies.

[IamKesyerSoze]

I like this film, I really do. I especially love the soundtrack even more then the movie if that's possible. BUT... the casting of James Stewart! Oh, Hitchcock, why?? He was so wrong for this role.

When I saw the necklace I was like GODDAMN why do people keep the evidence of their crimes?? lol

[blizzaire08]

@IamKesyerSoze DISAGREEEEE! Who else would you prefer for the role? I thought Jimmy did an excellent job. One of the all-time greats!

[IamKesyerSoze]

@blizzaire08 Anyone but Jimmy. He had that "Aw shucks!" quality about him and was too old. Hitchock should've gotten someone younger. He looked liked her grandfather.

[blizzaire08]

He was only 50 at the time! I think the amount of makeup they used made him look older, but eh, what can you do? Anyway, it makes me sad you didn't like Jimmy in this, but we've all got opinions. *shrug*

[williedigital]

You can stay in this hotel if you're ever in SF. It's called the hotel Vertigo.

[amyfalldown]

No way I can picture Vera Miles in this role.

[masterpatric07]

A CULT MOVIE,HITCHCOK MASTER ODF SUSPENSE,THEN COMES POLANSKI.

[tklogan111809]

Poor Madeleine.

[1dykerbklyn]

anyone know the name of this music?

[tklogan111809]

@1dykerbklyn Scene d'Amour by Bernard Herrmann, a reference to Richard Wagner's music for Tristan und Isolde (the Liebestod), except that it turned out better and more relevant than the original.

[pillarosociety]

@tklogan111809 He also seems to reference -- to put it kindly -- Ravel and Stravinsky at other points of the movie.

[RogueRotting360]

@pillarosociety That's Herrmann's voice. You can also hear a lot of Sibelius, Delius, Vaughan Williams and Debussy in his music.

[pillarosociety]

@RogueRotting360 well, herrmann's a mockingbird then, chief.

[RogueRotting360]

@pillarosociety Er, no. All composers have traces of others in their music.Art isn't created in a vacuum.

Herrmann's music is solely his.

[pillarosociety]

@RogueRotting360 Face it: Herrmann's the cinematic equivalent of the guys who composed for TV shows like Brady Bunch and My 3 Sons -- guys who could parrot any style to evoke whatever mood. He's doing it on a way higher level, but he's still doing it.

[RogueRotting360]

@pillarosociety No, he's not. He was actually rather limited in style, yet had a very strong, individual voice. For instance, with the exception of Sinfonietta for Strings and Psycho, you won't find any atonality in Herrmann's work.

If you want a "parrot composer", look to someone like James Horner.

Besides, you can easily describe any composer as a composite of their predecessors. Early Stravinsky - late Debussy, Rimsky Korsakov, late Scriabin and etc... It's a pointless exercise.

[MrSunlander]

the use of that neon green......

[cpz91]

Scotty realizes Madeline kept the necklace. Now he's onto her and you can tell when she goes to kiss him he looks disgusted.

[GeneMars13]

This scene is so intense !

[MsPicassos]

an erotic movie( partly).

[NiteTrainPM]

3:02

[GelandnaleG]

0:51

[MusicLoverBrian1]

One of the GREATEST movies of all time that contains one of the GREATEST scenes of all time that has such beautiful cinematography, and a gorgeous lush musical score. It's such a flawless movie and a MASTERPIECE and I hope that no one remakes it because they can never do it the way Director Alfred Hitchcock did it. He was a GENIUS!

[keyboardhero521]

Why is it that people deem Novak and Stewart as miscast?

How would you envision a relationship between two people who truly do not know who they are trying to be?

[agostinomaiello]

I've sojourned in that hotel. It was... amazing. :-) You can still choose a not-renovated room, just like it was back then. Which I did, of course.

[agostinomaiello]

I'd like to know who clicked on "I don't like" about this scene. It should be interesting to investigate the miserable existence of this guy and maybe we could find a way to help him...

[MRwagnerism]

cancel the spell is broken when music..

[MRwagnerism]

steward while waiting for her lover..stone thrown into the window and bemused steward..

[LKJslain]

Literally got chills when he saw the necklace, and I've seen this movie four dozen times.

[khal007]

Brilliant movie, depending on when you come back to watch it, you are sympathetic to Madeline or to Scottie. It just depends how you feel that day; it's all wrapped together like a continuous loop of a story, that unravels whenever you revisit it.

[whatuswattingat]

My favorite scene! "Madeline Returns!: The images, the music, the actors...just perfect.

[coolkid1234533]

That was a super long kiss! I loved it :P

[TheCatgirl6]

The resignation in her face (1:58) when he pleads with her to change her hair--it's just heartbreaking. This movie really plays with your head--no pun intended--you know? The first time I saw it, I was furious with him for the clueless cruelty of his demand that Judy recreate herself as a dead woman he loved... until I remembered that SHE was that woman and he was the one who had been played. How weirdly appropriate that when she re-appears (3:05) she is ghostly, an apparition.

[Chigawa]

Best movie scene of all time. Period.

[ferociousfrankie]

The way the it's filmed is haunting. It looks beautiful...

[YUMYUMYAAH]

la scena più bella del film

[MsPicassos]

Does the original black and white movie?...then you were colored?

[spike99lee]

@MsPicassos

no the movie was always in color :)

[HouseOnSunset]

@MsPicassos You're an idiot.

[MsPicassos]

@HouseOnSunset so you

[rainlori]

@MsPicassos Shot in Technicolor and VistaVision :D

[VIRIATO1942]

What an awsome scene !

She comes to him like in a dream, in a haze...

I guess the great background music makes the scene even more romantic.

Unforgetable movie. I miss seeing actors like Jimmy Stweart and Kim Novak.

They added maturity to Hollywood movies.

[evanferio2000]

this scene just fascinates me

[TheCatgirl6]

Wish the sound was better here, but oh well... Fascinating to watch this movie and think about all the rumored backstories about it--Hitch would have wanted Grace Kelly for the Madeleine/Judy role of course, but by now she was Princess Grace and unavailable... he absolutely did NOT want Kim Novak, but she was forced on him, possibly in part by Stewart who reportedly was having a torrid affair with her at this time--or did it begin on this set? Ah, Hollywood!

[HouseOnSunset]

@TheCatgirl6 I thought Hitch wanted Vera Miles, but she had to drop out due to her pregnancy?

[TheCatgirl6]

@HouseOnSunset Very possibly. I mention Grace because she was his dream woman and he was reportedly very unhappy about her departing Hollywood to become a princess. It may be revisionism, but some have read "Vertigo" as an expression of Hitchcock's thwarted desire for Grace Kelly. What do you think?

[MauricioCasteglione]

@TheCatgirl6 What I think may sound stupid, but at the first scene that we see James Stewart and his former girlfriend at her apartment, she looks like Grace Kelly. Her hair, her clothes, I mean. Classic and charming woman style. That scene reminds me a lot Rear Window. Vertigo is a tragical trap, not only to James Stewart´s character, but to us, the audience. A masterpiece movie that is sad and fascinating. What a sense of loss and hopelessness we feel in the end !

[TheCatgirl6]

@MauricioCasteglione Indeed--the ending is very bleak, and ironic. That's an interesting thought about Midge--the character played by Barbara Bel Geddes--resembling Grace Kelly; I don't think it's stupid at all. I do think though that in a way that point may strengthen the view that Hitchcock was in love or at least obsessed with Grace, and couldn't resist recreating her in nearly all of the actresses that came after her (especially poor Tippi Hedren.)

[pilf64]

Sound needs to be louder. You can't feel the emotion that Hermann intended, but still one of the best scenes in film history

[majawow]

great scene, people are normally not in love with the real person but in image, and want real person to fit in that image..

[Graviton0815]

@majawow The first thing you have of a person is an image. Because you do not know the person at all. Then you get to know that person. And you start to relealize that the person does not fit into your image. This is were you have to decide, where love starts... or ends...

[youkhum]

a masterpiece and piece of anthology. Hitch turns Madeleine/Judy into a ghost who comes back among the living. Beautiful.

[Alexaty5]

if i let u change me, will u love me? u can clearly see how madeleine loved scottie, to quit yourself for love, thats really something, pity she died in the end :( it makes me cry , sorry i love this scence

[estel74]

James Stewart succeeds, with masterly skill, to show the full range of emotions that a human being can try: pain, anger and despair at losing the woman he loved and, later, amazement, disbelief and joy to have found her again. Great actor. Magnificent film. Beautiful music.

[MauricioCasteglione]

@estel74 Indeed !

[dbellomchugh]

@estel74 Do you realize this scene is a pretty magnificent celebration of necrophilia?

[mazingerduke]

@dbellomchugh I don´t believe this. It´s too sublime

[ninadax]

esta es la Kim Novak que me gusta

[whimsicalcharm1]

Probably the greatest scene ever in a film.

[oracle787]

Brilliant scene

[hetreal]

Superbe scène. Merci.

[hiitsmewutsup09]

This movie is so stylish, the colors are more vivid than anything on blue-screen, the music is impossibly lush, the melodrama is at fever pitch

[hiitsmewutsup09]

woops, i meant blue-ray.

[tebangamboa]

this scene captured my heart since the first time I saw it in the film