Rope (1948) - "Did You Think You Were God?!" - James Stewart

[Riddler95]

James Stewart's acting performance here is amazing.

Hopefully Universal will release this movie on Blu-Ray soon.

[LucaC1993Production]

In those times the USA had the greatest cinema masters that history has never seen! Today, it's almost impossible to find a performance and an interpretation like the ones from those brilliant years...

[movisuckr3006]

Love the way he punches the words!!incredible performance!

[meldme]

James Stewart's masterclass of acting. His realisation at having been such a snob and having to deal with it 'being thrown back in his face' is just peerless acting.

[TheQuentinStuckey]

I'm doing this monologue for a drama assignment

[meldme]

@TheQuentinStuckey - You couldn't pick a better piece for that.

[philosophygoth91]

Loved the Nietzsche-esque discussions in the film. Great movie.

[reving19]

Credit great acting by Jimmy Stewart, Dall and Granger. But don't forget to credit Alfred Hitchcock for his excellent directing. Love the use of the blinking neon lights, sounds, etc as well. This is my favorite Hitchcock movie, and that is saying something considering the great movies he directed.

[moreprofound]

I know a few people if you'd ask them, Did You Think You Were God? they would say "YES"

[BarackSays]

Incredibly underrated Hitchcock film and incredibly underrated scene. I love this.

[TheWyldeGoose]

Hitchcock's ability to set up a scene is portrayed brilliantly in this film in particular. It's one of the few films I know that is shot in one place, and in this case, a top-floor apartment with windows that look dramatically outside. We start in daylight, and then gradually move into night, into the dark heart of the nature of this horrible crime. This is why Rope is my favorite Hitchcock film, and he my favorite filmmaker.

[Geo789C]

This film is the rejection to Ayn Rand.

[ryanfoley123]

@Geo789C Incorrect. You have no idea what you are talking about. Ayn Rand believes that the primary value for human beings is existence, and that force in any way (particularly when it ends the existence of another) is the greatest crime of all. Go fuck yourself, and try keeping your mouth out of conversations you don't yet understand.

[witness124]

An absolutely fantastic film. It's never cosidered one of his classics generally, but for me Rop is my favourite Hitchcock thriller, in my eyes, on a a par with Suspicion and Psycho.

[shire2005]

In the original play there are 3 very obviously gay characters. The gay couple and the character Stewart plays. Watching this film you would never know that about Stewart's character just that he is a brilliant professor and mentor. I can see how it might matter to gays that the man who discovered what they had done also be gay.

[shire2005]

My God what an incredible actor Stewart was. Did he have a single weakness at all? He was one of the best dramatic actors ever, a great comedic actor and a top notch western actor. Incredible.

[TheWyldeGoose]

@shire2005 That one scene where he's hit with a ton of bricks when his words are thrown back into his face is one of the most brilliant pieces of acting I've ever seen.

[TheQuentinStuckey]

Fantastic monologue and one of my all time favourite films.

[sleepyhead246]

James Stewart- Just incredible.

[6robyc]

Class A acting, what happened to America....

[evoman1776]

Back in the day when a first degree murder conviction was an almost automatic death sentence -- that wouldn't take 20+ years to be carried out.

[AWESOME90002]

I like how Ben Affleck travelled back in time to appear in this movie.

[Ricks550]

what a brilliant scene....

[Mingebag]

Phillip is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wasted.