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This 10 page paper discusses the issue of emotional identification in films, as illustrated by Hitchcock's Vertigo, and Cocteau's, Blood of a Poet. Examples are given, as well as how camera angle, lighting and music add to the overall emotional effect of the movie. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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scientists, who in their fervor to understand him, have inadvertently killed him. Elliot is peering into the hyper tank that they have placed E.T. into. Elliot is certain that E.T.
is dead and that it is his fault. An innocence has died in many tenses of the word. Pause. Think. Do you remember the camera angles? No. Do you remember
the dialogue? No. One remembers the emotions one felt during that scene. Emotional identification in film, it can be said, makes a film or sends it to that great B
valley in the sky. Why is this, exactly? Simple. Film is an emotional medium. And, like it or not, critics withstanding, movies are not really judged by how much they
make us think about an issue, but rather how they made us feel. It doesnt matter what kind of movie it is. This is the bottom line. Many would argue
that the theme of a movie is what pulls this emotional identification along, but evidence does not support this claim. I submit that in film, as in literature, it is
not the structure so much as it is the development of a meaningful character and/or plot. If one writes to the theme, then something seems to suffer. Consider Alfred
Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in brief, is about obsessive fears, and
the redemptive qualities of love. Scotty is a detective who is afraid of heights. Because of this he has left the police force to become a private detective. A friend
of his from college convinces him to help watch his wife who has become suicidal. The old friend confesses that he fears that his wife has been possessed by the
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