Herrmann composed other masterpieces besides those he did for Hitchcock's films. But I don't think Hitchcock made any masterpieces that were not scored by Herrmann.
Saul Bass wasn't the only guy who worked on this title sequence. John Whitney also worked on this. He's the man who first used computers to make animations.
@MrAlexmvrocha Overrated? There are a lot of people who don't like this movie. It's one of his "art" movies and rather difficult to watch, unlike something more "popcorn" like North by Northwest.
Romantic? More like an anti-romance movie about fetish.
@pizzicatesque If you really think that, I'm very sorry that you've never been introduced to this masterpiece (made in 1958, by the way). Look up the movie, and take a quick peak, you may just like it :)
NOTHING like seeing this on the gigantic curved screen at the Uptown theater in DC, in the 2nd row! When this movie is your entire field of vision (and not just on some plasma tv in your living room), it leaves you shaken for hours afterward, no matter how many times you've seen it. If not AH's best, certainly in the top 3.
lady gaga has just posted her new video born this way in which the entire opening part is a rip off of this credit sequence, ruined another masterpiece with her mainstream crap!
Yes, John Whitney created the technology to create the spiral designs, which can be seen in his and his brother's experimental films. Whitney also deserves a lot of credit for this brilliant title sequence.
I think these opening images are about evasion, inscruitability. In the movie, a man tries to get to know a mysterious woman with secrets...so here we travel into her head where there are hypnotic things going on. We are falling into here eyes...
Its all in the eye of the beholder: reality is deceiving and some ('wicked') minds make the riddle even bigger. Hitchcock was a master of creating paranoid situations. Vertigo is indeed Hitchcocks artistic masterpiece. This starting title is one of the best in film history. Fear of height or depth and magical Novak as (psychological) attractor. And the magnificent (minimal) music of Bernard Hermann. The mysterious atmosphere of the film is unforgettable. This fine film inspired "Basic Instinct".
As for Psycho, I appreciate its tight construction. Its jumping between characters and settings is a great device for suspense, and the study of its central figure Norman Bates, played with virtuosity by Anthony Perkins. In fact, the whole cast deserves mention for their fine postrayals. I believe this film showed Hitchcock utilizing visual and aural composition to the greatest effect in order to illustrate its bleak, chilling atmosphere. The scenes at the Bates Motel have few true successors.
Still, I often come back to Vertigo for the richness of the themes (the choice of living or dying, the fragile will, the power of the mind over reality, attraction toward the unreal, recreating the past, the possible sinster motives behind romance, etc.), the characters (Scottie's downfall is astonishingly captured), and the almost lurid imagery, showing the workings of Scottie's mind in conjunction with his environment in stunning detail. This is one of the few films I could call fine art
@Gencturk92 I loved Rear Window also. I enjoy the film-viewing allegory in Jimmy Stewart watching his neighbours. I also love how the film takes place on one giant set while the point of view is mostly fixed to Stewart's apartment. Personally I think its the most entertaining Hitchcock film, mainly because the dialogue is compelling, the actors are very in-character, and the way the central mystery itself builds is always intriguing.
I first saw 'Vertigo' on a boring Saturday when I was in the seventh grade. I watched it on AMC and was instantly intrigued. Though I didn't understand a lot of the film's deeper meaning, I fell in love with it and have continued watching it ever since. Unlike some movies, 'Vertigo' becomes more inexplicably beautiful and haunting with each viewing. As an aspiring writer this movie has become a cornerstone and constant inspiration and I feel privileged to have seen it when I was younger.
With Herrmann the last score you've heard is usually the one you think is best. But I'm still clinging to my belief that his best was The Ghost And Mrs.Muir.
@arkantoxic agreed. for me, his character was more terrifying because Norman Bates was not relatable. Stewart started pretty normal before he went down this nightmarish mystery.
I once had my life relying on a rickety old rain gutter. I wasn't hanging from it but I did have a foot in it and about a 25 foot drop below me. A wind storm blew dirt out from under graphite coated shingles and I slipped and the closer I got to the edge the faster I went. I stuck my foot in that rain gutter and carefully slowed my self down. Scared the hell out of me. I'm not much more afraid of heights because of it but if I don't have something to grab onto I completely freeze.
I wish that they were still able to make movies like this today. Instead now, they act as if the special effets are everything. Back then they were able to make well written, well acted movies that were great, and heres the kicker, they didn't overload every scene with every special effect that they could fit in.
Good movies are still being made, not as many, true but some.
I thought The Prestige was a first-rate film in every way. It had some special effects but only for the sake of the story line. And it had genuine suspense about the characters--what were they going to do next and why? It also had great dialogue. Like Vertigo, it shows how a man's obsession can destroy not only his life but the lives of those he loves.
Such a brilliant sequence, a perfect marriage of music and image. And a great, great film. Leslie's novel 'The History of Us' is heavily influenced on Vertigo.
To this day I can't watch this scene, or the scene where Stewart follows Novak, without being genuinely scared. Why? I don't know. They're not really "scary" in any way, but Hitchcock was able to keep us on the edge of our seats regardless. Incredible film.
The '50s and the early '60s were Hitchcock's glory days. When you combine Bernard Herrman's musical scores, G. Tomasini's editing, great scripts from people such as Ernest Lehman and others, and add Saul Bass' opening titles(especially when shown in VistaVision), you have Hitch at his best.
One of the greatest opening credits in the history of cinema. Grand and epic, but at the same time, mysterious and even frightening. Bernard Herrmann and Saul Bass were both at their best here.
hitchcock considered vertigo as his most personal movie. in the title scene we seem to be hypnotized by the woman's eyes and we litterally fall into them...hitch loved and idolized women and at the same time he was terrified by them and considered the relashioship between man and wonman as tragic...
how did he get down when he falls off the roof in the beginning of the movie hitch did that was stewart draming or was he dead there was no way to save him in that scene
If you like VERTIGO composer BERNARD HERRMANN, check his opera WUTHERING HEIGHTS + 50 other operas by 50 other composers in my play list 20th CENTURY OPERA ( including the world premiere of ARIA DEL CIRUJANO from Opera Opus Operatorum by Roberto Rius & Pedro Ipuche Riva )
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Hitchcock was one one of the greatest directors in the history of film. Part of his genius was in selecting Bernard Hermann to score so many of his films. Can you even imagine Psycho, Vertigo and North By Northwest being the classics they are without Hermann's music?
Another phenomenal confluence of the talents of three titans - Sir Alfred, Bernard Herrmann and Saul Bass.
Back in the mid-1990s, it was completely restored, printed in its widescreen VistaVision and full stereo for the first time, and released theatrically. What an experience that was to see it on the big screen and hear it in full theater sound!
I just watched Vertigo for the first time. I don't always love Hitchcock (has anyone seen Torn Curtain?) but this film is brilliant. I actually found the first hour a bit dull - but as it progresses it becomes more and more intense and takes on this unreal sort of dreamlike quality. I think the music has a lot to do with the film's success - but Hitchcock's direction is inspired, and the acting is good too.
While Psycho might be the more commercially successful movie, and don't get me wrong, I LOVE psycho, Vertigo is his masterpiece cause it's so eerie, in every way. The music, the deliberately exaggerated colours, Kim Novak's eerie demeanor, it's all so subtly done to the point of being really creepy, and let's NOT forget that animation sequence of Scottie's nightmare, which pretty much seals the deal.
Vertigo what can u say? From the perfect opening credit the music, the photogrpahy . the story, the acting the eiditing makes it the BEST film HItchccock ever made if not one of the best films that has ever been made period, So damn intense, its almost perfect.
Great opening, terrifying film for a kid of 11 or 12 (that's how old I was when I watched "Vertigo" for the first time). James Stewart (RIP), in peak form at the age of 50. By 1958, he'd come a long way from the days of Frank Capra and George Bailey. Wonderful.
Listen to me ObamaRules4Ever, why do you call people recists when it is you, who is filled with hatred. I say that because you waste your time by posting stupid comments to videos you don't even want to watch. Vertigo is perhaps the best movie ever made, and it has nothing to do with racism, it actually has a pretty good message. I don't care how Stewart was as a person, but I do know he was a fantastic actor.
My favourite Hitchock film! The first time I saw it I was like: "Oh this is just going to be a just a romance between Kim Novak and James Stewart and he's going to realise the husband's plan and save her": I was so delightfuly wrong. It's insanely creepy. Scares me more than Psyco.
I dont see it as a romantic film at all. It's about a fatal obsession.
Wow you must be filled with so much hate and anger yourself, I find it so funny and interesting, that people who dont like hitchcock, or vertigo come onto youtube, find the link they DONT like, and then comment on it to to get public glory, I'd advise eating some brown, I'm sorry that James S. was a racist, but at least hitchcock is recognised worldwide, sometimes as the best.. please keep your negative comments to yourself or to your penis whenever the dust settles ontop.
Well anyone who hates this film hear this, Vertigo ranks as 41. on IMDB's TOP 250 FILMS EVER MADE out of the thousands and thousands and thousands of films ever made!!! HOWS THAT FOR 'CRAP' HAHA insult all you like, clearly other people love it :) whoop whoop
When this was re-released on the big screen (Ziegfield, NYC) about 10 years ago, a smart critic observed that there were two geniuses at work here: Hitch and Herrmann.
It's often overused to describe a movie but Vertigo is a truly hauntingly romantic film and one of Hitchcock's best. Bernard hermann's score perfectly captures the tone and overall mood of the film.
I was fourteen when this cane out, and I loved it. The critics hated it, and I guess I should have felt naive, even stupid, but I knew better. Time has proven this to be a classic, and Bernard Herrmann's score still gives me goosebumps. Wow!--arnie113
OH MY GOD how can this be my FAVOURITE MOVIE EVER EVER MADE, and some idiot clown says it's the worst movie ever, I wonder why he came on youtube just to insult hitchcock, ahh well who cares. I LOVED IT 10/10
This was one of the RARE instances where Bernard Herrmann did not conduct his score. Herrmann was a loyal union man and the American Guild of Musicians was on strike. Most of the score was recorded in England with Sinfonia of London and the London Symphony Orchestra by his good friend Muir Mathieson. Herrmann did conduct the Paramount Studio Orchestra in Hollywood for the recording of the final cue sequences in the film, but that was all. The soundtrack CD credits the enitre score to Paramount.
Vertigo isn't overrated. It is one of the finest films ever made. It features a magnificent performance by Jimmy Stewart and this is surely Hitch at his best. But Marnie is definitely underrated.
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I haven't seen it in many years, but I remember something film-studentish about the whole contraption. Unbelievable, in the negative sense. I found myself doubting the whole thing.
Ιt is Hitchcock's simplest, purest and most personal film. He never let himself get carried away in such a sentimental choice after it.
It might appear simple but there is a huge psychological background beneath it, and it is there for those who want to search for it.
For those who don't, they can also have a good time watching it, but it would be a sin to miss everything that the huge number of studies say about it: that it certainly means more than meets the eye.
I'm afraid I must dissent, though I know I'm in the minority on this one. For me, Hitch's best English movie was THE LADY VANISHES, his best American film was REAR WINDOW.
To say that this film is Hitchcock's masterpiece is an understatement. The film perhaps in the top 3 of the best films ever made right next to Kane and . The music, cinematography,actiong, direction ,themes, discourse, plot it reeks of nothing less then the finest element of hitchcockian ideals. Stunning nonetheless the film is the best adaption to film from a book ever and the film never stun me. Truley a rarest of gift from the the autur of "Pure Cinema".
The only issue with saying this is one of the top 3 films of all time is that North By Northwest must probably therefore also be in the top 5! Probably IS...
Amazing score to an amazing film
donstuie 7 months ago
Herrmann of course :)
Johnnyer 8 months ago
Bernard Harrmann is magnificent. Greetings from Finland.
Johnnyer 8 months ago 2
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Great Movie, Great Title!!
McMundane 8 months ago
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To all of you: Lady Gaga IS Alfred Hitchcock...
PsychotronicWar 8 months ago
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PsychotronicWar 8 months ago
Herrmann composed other masterpieces besides those he did for Hitchcock's films. But I don't think Hitchcock made any masterpieces that were not scored by Herrmann.
This score is truly a work of genius.
4Topwood 9 months ago
@jthmerie9 i know! for that reason! And I found it very interesting!
totalmentegaga 9 months ago
among the most haunting film scores. the film stays with you long after you first experience it.
matternicuss 9 months ago
It's the song to the 'manifest of mother monster' in the video Born This Way (:
totalmentegaga 10 months ago
@totalmentegaga this is the original lady gaga borrowed it
jthmerie9 9 months ago
This music is deadly awesome
Trund27 10 months ago 2
One of the great Hitchcock films and the best opening of any film. Period.
fkd1963 10 months ago
Saul Bass wasn't the only guy who worked on this title sequence. John Whitney also worked on this. He's the man who first used computers to make animations.
KisukeOboro 10 months ago
Overrated! Deep down, it's a romantic movie
MrAlexmvrocha 10 months ago
@MrAlexmvrocha Overrated? There are a lot of people who don't like this movie. It's one of his "art" movies and rather difficult to watch, unlike something more "popcorn" like North by Northwest.
Romantic? More like an anti-romance movie about fetish.
FilmFan1974 10 months ago 3
Thumbs up if you ended up here for Gaga video...hahaha
VaniacV 11 months ago
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They totally copied Lady Gaga's Born This Way video.
pizzicatesque 11 months ago
@pizzicatesque If you really think that, I'm very sorry that you've never been introduced to this masterpiece (made in 1958, by the way). Look up the movie, and take a quick peak, you may just like it :)
NacodaLupine 9 months ago
@NacodaLupine No in fact I study cinema and we watched this movie for two months last session, aha ~
pizzicatesque 9 months ago
@pizzicatesque So, are you claiming that Lady Gaga copied this video, or that Hitchcock copied Lady Gaga?
NacodaLupine 9 months ago
@NacodaLupine That Hitchcock copied Gaga.
He had a time machine.
pizzicatesque 9 months ago 4
@pizzicatesque lol XD
NacodaLupine 9 months ago
@pizzicatesque Hi! I study cinema too, where are you from?
misstheclassroom 8 months ago
@misstheclassroom Quebec City, Canada.
pizzicatesque 8 months ago
NOTHING like seeing this on the gigantic curved screen at the Uptown theater in DC, in the 2nd row! When this movie is your entire field of vision (and not just on some plasma tv in your living room), it leaves you shaken for hours afterward, no matter how many times you've seen it. If not AH's best, certainly in the top 3.
hotmarriedgays 11 months ago
Lady GaGA Born this way video uses this theme in the first 2 minute introduction to the video. very cool.
snacks123 11 months ago 8
@snacks123 Oh, so she rips off Hitchcock too, along with Madonna and everyone else? How nice.
FilmFan1974 10 months ago 2
@snacks123 Lady Gaga "borrowed" this theme for her video? I'm shocked! That's so unlike her to "borrow" stuff from other people.
leftyla 7 months ago
Favorite part:
0:53
ZOINKSation 11 months ago
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OH YES! Definitely. That's when the music really burst open.
Then because once is NOT enough, it's repeated later at 2:00
(I believe this is the section of the score inspired by Richard Wagner's "Liebestod" aria.)
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lady gaga has just posted her new video born this way in which the entire opening part is a rip off of this credit sequence, ruined another masterpiece with her mainstream crap!
meganakacrow 11 months ago
Yes, John Whitney created the technology to create the spiral designs, which can be seen in his and his brother's experimental films. Whitney also deserves a lot of credit for this brilliant title sequence.
marisolchow 11 months ago
What does the first woman (and her eye) express in this start title?
If anyone knows about it, please tell me!!
arukidase 11 months ago
@arukidase
I think these opening images are about evasion, inscruitability. In the movie, a man tries to get to know a mysterious woman with secrets...so here we travel into her head where there are hypnotic things going on. We are falling into here eyes...
HollywoodHillsCookie 11 months ago
@HollywoodHillsCookie (Oops...I mean "her eyes", of course (below)
HollywoodHillsCookie 11 months ago
@HollywoodHillsCookie
Thanks for your explanation. It seems that the woman's eye is one of the symbol of vertigo.
Very artistic start title.
arukidase 11 months ago
it says by saul bass... wasn't john whitney the one in charge of all the animations?
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love this film
RevanGabriel 1 year ago
So hard to pick between this and psycho. On an artistic level this is Hitchcock's greatest, and that's saying something.
joc2kent 1 year ago
0:09. I want a James Stewart Moustache too.
BeeSponge 1 year ago 3
my my... Bass made an extraordinary work with the titles.
miracle0rouka 1 year ago
Its all in the eye of the beholder: reality is deceiving and some ('wicked') minds make the riddle even bigger. Hitchcock was a master of creating paranoid situations. Vertigo is indeed Hitchcocks artistic masterpiece. This starting title is one of the best in film history. Fear of height or depth and magical Novak as (psychological) attractor. And the magnificent (minimal) music of Bernard Hermann. The mysterious atmosphere of the film is unforgettable. This fine film inspired "Basic Instinct".
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As for Psycho, I appreciate its tight construction. Its jumping between characters and settings is a great device for suspense, and the study of its central figure Norman Bates, played with virtuosity by Anthony Perkins. In fact, the whole cast deserves mention for their fine postrayals. I believe this film showed Hitchcock utilizing visual and aural composition to the greatest effect in order to illustrate its bleak, chilling atmosphere. The scenes at the Bates Motel have few true successors.
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Still, I often come back to Vertigo for the richness of the themes (the choice of living or dying, the fragile will, the power of the mind over reality, attraction toward the unreal, recreating the past, the possible sinster motives behind romance, etc.), the characters (Scottie's downfall is astonishingly captured), and the almost lurid imagery, showing the workings of Scottie's mind in conjunction with his environment in stunning detail. This is one of the few films I could call fine art
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keyboardhero521 1 year ago
My favourite credits sequence. A scene such as this, with vivid images and grand music, can genuinely be called "powerful".
keyboardhero521 1 year ago
i dident really enjoy this movie, rear window and psycho was the best
Gencturk92 1 year ago
@Gencturk92 I loved Rear Window also. I enjoy the film-viewing allegory in Jimmy Stewart watching his neighbours. I also love how the film takes place on one giant set while the point of view is mostly fixed to Stewart's apartment. Personally I think its the most entertaining Hitchcock film, mainly because the dialogue is compelling, the actors are very in-character, and the way the central mystery itself builds is always intriguing.
I wish we were given more than 500 characte
keyboardhero521 1 year ago
Doe this remind anyone else of the old James Bond title sequences?
motherfan55 1 year ago
1 Psycho
2 Vertigo
Peter1999 1 year ago
bernard hermann-what a musician, and the film is quality
Englishsea24 1 year ago
Bass, Herrmann and Hitchcock = great movie.
7villarreal 1 year ago
I first saw 'Vertigo' on a boring Saturday when I was in the seventh grade. I watched it on AMC and was instantly intrigued. Though I didn't understand a lot of the film's deeper meaning, I fell in love with it and have continued watching it ever since. Unlike some movies, 'Vertigo' becomes more inexplicably beautiful and haunting with each viewing. As an aspiring writer this movie has become a cornerstone and constant inspiration and I feel privileged to have seen it when I was younger.
iamthevariable 1 year ago 3
@iamthevariable All Mr. Hitchcock's movies take several viewings to fully appreciate!
MerleOberon 1 year ago
With Herrmann the last score you've heard is usually the one you think is best. But I'm still clinging to my belief that his best was The Ghost And Mrs.Muir.
alexalex3131 1 year ago
one of the best movies ever made !! and one of the best scores !
Cosmic86x 1 year ago 5
standing ovation
FraFor88 1 year ago
Amazing score!
mollypie10 1 year ago
jimmy Stewart scared the shit out of me! And frankly, he scared me more than Norman bates. His character had such dark undertone. SCARY
arkantoxic 1 year ago
@arkantoxic agreed. for me, his character was more terrifying because Norman Bates was not relatable. Stewart started pretty normal before he went down this nightmarish mystery.
Vertigo=Best mystery movie of all time
brickbusterful 1 year ago
I didn't enjoy this movie that much, I prefer 'The Birds' !
Gencturk92 1 year ago
@Gencturk92 You have bad taste.
RogueRotting360 1 year ago
@RogueRotting360, no, my favourite was 'rear window' and 'psycho'
Gencturk92 1 year ago
I could watch these titles on a loop. I'm obsessed with them.
Silverwire100 1 year ago
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arkantoxic 1 year ago
One of the best openings is movie history!
MissWhiate 1 year ago 2
I thought the end of this movie was crazy.
The nun just said "oh poor dear" and immediately started ringing the bell. It was almost comical.
zaqwert777 1 year ago
I once had my life relying on a rickety old rain gutter. I wasn't hanging from it but I did have a foot in it and about a 25 foot drop below me. A wind storm blew dirt out from under graphite coated shingles and I slipped and the closer I got to the edge the faster I went. I stuck my foot in that rain gutter and carefully slowed my self down. Scared the hell out of me. I'm not much more afraid of heights because of it but if I don't have something to grab onto I completely freeze.
zaqwert777 1 year ago
@zaqwert777 Well don't leave us in suspense! Did you survive?
mov88 1 year ago
@mov88 LOLLLL so 90s sitcom
eleanorfan1990 1 year ago
I wish that they were still able to make movies like this today. Instead now, they act as if the special effets are everything. Back then they were able to make well written, well acted movies that were great, and heres the kicker, they didn't overload every scene with every special effect that they could fit in.
behindXblueXeyez 1 year ago 2
its because its a business
and films like this today would bore audiences to death
1999UTD 1 year ago
@behindXblueXeyez
Good movies are still being made, not as many, true but some.
I thought The Prestige was a first-rate film in every way. It had some special effects but only for the sake of the story line. And it had genuine suspense about the characters--what were they going to do next and why? It also had great dialogue. Like Vertigo, it shows how a man's obsession can destroy not only his life but the lives of those he loves.
4Topwood 1 year ago
Such a brilliant sequence, a perfect marriage of music and image. And a great, great film. Leslie's novel 'The History of Us' is heavily influenced on Vertigo.
swanseaanorak 1 year ago
this intro just hooks you in! i love it!
mollypie10 1 year ago
SPETTACOLARE
laccasuona 1 year ago
To this day I can't watch this scene, or the scene where Stewart follows Novak, without being genuinely scared. Why? I don't know. They're not really "scary" in any way, but Hitchcock was able to keep us on the edge of our seats regardless. Incredible film.
BreakerdeGodot 2 years ago 2
I cried during this film... man this is beautiful...
BlackenedForLife 2 years ago
If you like Stewart & Novak together, then you'll want to see them in "Bell, Book & Candle."
judygriffith 2 years ago
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That racist James Stewart was FAR too old.
FrankClanton 2 years ago
John Whitney animated this for Saul Bass
speier 2 years ago
from x-men to star trek without bernard herrmann, nothing would have worked out the way it did.
foxsux6000 2 years ago
the film that gave me the goosebumps everytime i watched it!
arkantoxic 2 years ago 10
una delle cose per cui vale la pena vivere--
hermann + bass + hitch = pure genius
unforgivensweetie 2 years ago 3
capolavoro, musica e film
grande bernard herrmann
laccasuona 2 years ago 2
The '50s and the early '60s were Hitchcock's glory days. When you combine Bernard Herrman's musical scores, G. Tomasini's editing, great scripts from people such as Ernest Lehman and others, and add Saul Bass' opening titles(especially when shown in VistaVision), you have Hitch at his best.
ZiuoxZui 2 years ago 8
All Mystery/Thriller´s and Movies with complex plot , never work today without Vertigo....
this Movie is 20-30 Jears ahead of his time
WolfensteinAW 2 years ago 6
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The bald racist Stewart was far too old.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
I agree this was Hitch's best film. But from a purely filmmaking perspective, Psycho comes very very close.
alexalex3131 2 years ago
i prefer psycho,your choosin from 2 masterpieces tho
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I have this on my ipod.
ferociousfrankie 2 years ago
vertigo was such a f***ed up movie...i still love the score, though
spaceawesome22 2 years ago
so good. still terrifies me. one of the best scores of all time
squidlyj 2 years ago 44
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I certainly second that emotion !!!
:-)
JubalCalif 8 months ago
vertigo the best movie of the history?
paulbabastereo 2 years ago 5
Gosh, I love this opening sequence. Absolutely wonderful.
rowewhite 2 years ago 4
One of the greatest opening credits in the history of cinema. Grand and epic, but at the same time, mysterious and even frightening. Bernard Herrmann and Saul Bass were both at their best here.
Thapzaa 2 years ago 10
hitchcock considered vertigo as his most personal movie. in the title scene we seem to be hypnotized by the woman's eyes and we litterally fall into them...hitch loved and idolized women and at the same time he was terrified by them and considered the relashioship between man and wonman as tragic...
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Hitchcock was a repressed homosexual who had been sexually abused as a child.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Hitchcock often said that Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was his favorite film that he had directed.
swordpunisher 2 years ago
how did he get down when he falls off the roof in the beginning of the movie hitch did that was stewart draming or was he dead there was no way to save him in that scene
peck4111 2 years ago
Amazing film. Hitchcock's best on my opinion.
Maximusiusius 2 years ago 60
mine's Rear Window
BobaFettRules321 1 year ago
@BobaFettRules321 same as mine
Gencturk92 1 year ago
never get tired of this movie..I keep coming back hoping that kim novack is really Madeline!
malondo7 2 years ago
love this music and graphic start titles.. and wonderful film
WOW! thank
jagoda3 2 years ago
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Stewart was far too old.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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upatoia 2 years ago
Hitchcock was one one of the greatest directors in the history of film. Part of his genius was in selecting Bernard Hermann to score so many of his films. Can you even imagine Psycho, Vertigo and North By Northwest being the classics they are without Hermann's music?
dldbug 2 years ago 9
One of the best title sequences in film and definitely one of the best films of all time.
Tubeviewer75 2 years ago 5
Another phenomenal confluence of the talents of three titans - Sir Alfred, Bernard Herrmann and Saul Bass.
Back in the mid-1990s, it was completely restored, printed in its widescreen VistaVision and full stereo for the first time, and released theatrically. What an experience that was to see it on the big screen and hear it in full theater sound!
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vanessalove182 2 years ago
hitchcock-hermann-bass=genius!!!!!
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Money- you will find a wad of $200 in cash
Love- Your crush or lover will kiss you or ask you out
0123silverchaos012 2 years ago
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I have the original LP of VERTIGO on ebay uk for sale, cheap, from seller top.vision. Beautiful music, the BEST.
rosso1000 2 years ago
Vertigo is Hitchcock's finest film, and one of the greatest films ever made. Quite possibly in the top 20 ever.
This film demands multiple viewings.
dsd137 2 years ago 4
I just watched Vertigo for the first time. I don't always love Hitchcock (has anyone seen Torn Curtain?) but this film is brilliant. I actually found the first hour a bit dull - but as it progresses it becomes more and more intense and takes on this unreal sort of dreamlike quality. I think the music has a lot to do with the film's success - but Hitchcock's direction is inspired, and the acting is good too.
stickyfixer 2 years ago
Hitchcock's masterpiece.
While Psycho might be the more commercially successful movie, and don't get me wrong, I LOVE psycho, Vertigo is his masterpiece cause it's so eerie, in every way. The music, the deliberately exaggerated colours, Kim Novak's eerie demeanor, it's all so subtly done to the point of being really creepy, and let's NOT forget that animation sequence of Scottie's nightmare, which pretty much seals the deal.
10/10
WWAAK 2 years ago 3
then you'll love "Psycho II," "Psycho III" &
"Psycho IV." Though Hitchcock died before the sequels were made, they're just as good, if not better.
ShakespeareHamlet 2 years ago
great stuff
quendoline 2 years ago
What a great title sequence. Check out my video tribute to this masterpiece!
sopdadope 2 years ago
Vertigo what can u say? From the perfect opening credit the music, the photogrpahy . the story, the acting the eiditing makes it the BEST film HItchccock ever made if not one of the best films that has ever been made period, So damn intense, its almost perfect.
likilu51 2 years ago 3
saul bass with john whitney, to be fair...
kazo 2 years ago
Great opening, terrifying film for a kid of 11 or 12 (that's how old I was when I watched "Vertigo" for the first time). James Stewart (RIP), in peak form at the age of 50. By 1958, he'd come a long way from the days of Frank Capra and George Bailey. Wonderful.
odaibaman 2 years ago
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The racist was far too old for the part.
ObamaRules4Ever 2 years ago
Listen to me ObamaRules4Ever, why do you call people recists when it is you, who is filled with hatred. I say that because you waste your time by posting stupid comments to videos you don't even want to watch. Vertigo is perhaps the best movie ever made, and it has nothing to do with racism, it actually has a pretty good message. I don't care how Stewart was as a person, but I do know he was a fantastic actor.
Vinther1991 2 years ago 4
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Vertigo is just a slow, dated, overlong and boring old movie made in 1957 with a far too old and miscast Stewart.
ObamaRules4Ever 2 years ago
Then go watch your batman movies
Vinther1991 2 years ago
you have bad taste
Andr4s 2 years ago
My favourite Hitchock film! The first time I saw it I was like: "Oh this is just going to be a just a romance between Kim Novak and James Stewart and he's going to realise the husband's plan and save her": I was so delightfuly wrong. It's insanely creepy. Scares me more than Psyco.
I dont see it as a romantic film at all. It's about a fatal obsession.
Muribelle 3 years ago 10
Saul Bass was terrific!
pascrau 3 years ago 2
Wow you must be filled with so much hate and anger yourself, I find it so funny and interesting, that people who dont like hitchcock, or vertigo come onto youtube, find the link they DONT like, and then comment on it to to get public glory, I'd advise eating some brown, I'm sorry that James S. was a racist, but at least hitchcock is recognised worldwide, sometimes as the best.. please keep your negative comments to yourself or to your penis whenever the dust settles ontop.
amarsbarr 3 years ago 2
Well anyone who hates this film hear this, Vertigo ranks as 41. on IMDB's TOP 250 FILMS EVER MADE out of the thousands and thousands and thousands of films ever made!!! HOWS THAT FOR 'CRAP' HAHA insult all you like, clearly other people love it :) whoop whoop
amarsbarr 3 years ago 2
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It's crap, so glad the talentless racsit Stewart got ALZHEIMER'S.
Hitchcock was an obese closet faggot who had been sexually abused as a child and his movies are shit.
ObamaRules4Ever 3 years ago
i hope you die a slow death
SynxVII 3 years ago 2
me too, I'm sick of that bastard
ThatsGoodTellivision 3 years ago
me too, I'm sick of that bastard
(I'm talking about the channel "ObamaRules4Ever")
ThatsGoodTellivision 3 years ago
When this was re-released on the big screen (Ziegfield, NYC) about 10 years ago, a smart critic observed that there were two geniuses at work here: Hitch and Herrmann.
alexalex3131 3 years ago
It's often overused to describe a movie but Vertigo is a truly hauntingly romantic film and one of Hitchcock's best. Bernard hermann's score perfectly captures the tone and overall mood of the film.
DinoLarry 3 years ago
I was fourteen when this cane out, and I loved it. The critics hated it, and I guess I should have felt naive, even stupid, but I knew better. Time has proven this to be a classic, and Bernard Herrmann's score still gives me goosebumps. Wow!--arnie113
arnie113 3 years ago
OH MY GOD how can this be my FAVOURITE MOVIE EVER EVER MADE, and some idiot clown says it's the worst movie ever, I wonder why he came on youtube just to insult hitchcock, ahh well who cares. I LOVED IT 10/10
amarsbarr 3 years ago
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It's dated, slow, boring and stupid, and that bald racist James Stewart was far too OLD.
ObamaRules4Ever 3 years ago
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Crap movie with the racist Stewart far too old.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
Tool
zebulebu 3 years ago
Best opening sequence. Best ending ever, too! Vertigo frocks!
elrodolfino 3 years ago 2
katasrofa
chrissppp77777 3 years ago
Yooo
maidenfan95 3 years ago
unquestionably the best film i have ever seen
totustuus333 3 years ago 2
agreed.
drownedmaterialworld 3 years ago
This was one of the RARE instances where Bernard Herrmann did not conduct his score. Herrmann was a loyal union man and the American Guild of Musicians was on strike. Most of the score was recorded in England with Sinfonia of London and the London Symphony Orchestra by his good friend Muir Mathieson. Herrmann did conduct the Paramount Studio Orchestra in Hollywood for the recording of the final cue sequences in the film, but that was all. The soundtrack CD credits the enitre score to Paramount.
Noveltooner 3 years ago
Actually, I think this movie is underrated - especially James Stewarts' performance. One of his best - if not, most fucked up. I love it.
LittleRedMenace 3 years ago 3
UN CAPOLAVORO
jagoda3 3 years ago
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This movie is the most overrated in Hitchcock's canon. Most underrated, you ask? MARNIE.
goback3spaces 3 years ago
Vertigo isn't overrated. It is one of the finest films ever made. It features a magnificent performance by Jimmy Stewart and this is surely Hitch at his best. But Marnie is definitely underrated.
KnightsStudiosUK 3 years ago 7
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I haven't seen it in many years, but I remember something film-studentish about the whole contraption. Unbelievable, in the negative sense. I found myself doubting the whole thing.
goback3spaces 3 years ago
Try and watch it again then!!!
KnightsStudiosUK 3 years ago
Ιt is Hitchcock's simplest, purest and most personal film. He never let himself get carried away in such a sentimental choice after it.
It might appear simple but there is a huge psychological background beneath it, and it is there for those who want to search for it.
For those who don't, they can also have a good time watching it, but it would be a sin to miss everything that the huge number of studies say about it: that it certainly means more than meets the eye.
bloodySunday77 3 years ago
I'm afraid I must dissent, though I know I'm in the minority on this one. For me, Hitch's best English movie was THE LADY VANISHES, his best American film was REAR WINDOW.
goback3spaces 3 years ago
These are indeed very good choices, and I can only guess that there must be an almost equal volume of literature on those, especially on Rear Window.
Everything I wrote was very simplistic. "More than meets the eye"?? I sound like a 12 year-old... anyway, you get the picture.
bloodySunday77 3 years ago
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I'm looking for someone to have FUN with...is it you?
ferger87 3 years ago
One of the most glorious examples of movie music. Bernard Herrmann is beyond a doubt one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
belianis 3 years ago 6
final scene music fahrenhieght 451 and marnie simpl the best.
funkstagazza 3 years ago
Beyond perfect film...
realeimperobritannic 3 years ago 2
James Stewart is brilliant in this to me - I sympathized so much with the character, poor him.
sunnygirly2k4 3 years ago
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Stewart was far too old.
HarveyCartwright 3 years ago
Definitely Hitchcock's magnum opus.
tuttt99 3 years ago 2
To say that this film is Hitchcock's masterpiece is an understatement. The film perhaps in the top 3 of the best films ever made right next to Kane and . The music, cinematography,actiong, direction ,themes, discourse, plot it reeks of nothing less then the finest element of hitchcockian ideals. Stunning nonetheless the film is the best adaption to film from a book ever and the film never stun me. Truley a rarest of gift from the the autur of "Pure Cinema".
joeyhatesu 3 years ago 3
Kane? lol
tempusfugit68 3 years ago
"Citizen Kane" (1941)
johncarpenter1980 3 years ago
Oh, OK. I thought you meant that pro wrestler movie. lol
tempusfugit68 3 years ago
The only issue with saying this is one of the top 3 films of all time is that North By Northwest must probably therefore also be in the top 5! Probably IS...
tomsega 3 years ago
I'd add Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner". A movie you can see a thousand times and always be taken by the magic.
sblug2 3 years ago