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This 3-page paper examines Hitchcock’s use of mise-en-scene and editing in “North by Northwest” and “The Birds.”
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realism" in the films "North by Northwest" and "The Birds," using the crop dusting scene from the first film and the schoolyard scene from the second. Discussion
The hero of "North by Northwest," Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant), takes a bus to rural Indiana
to meet the man hes been trying to find. The prairie is absolutely flat, with clear visibility in all directions. There is a corn field, a dirt road,
a two-lane highway, and a crop duster. It seems innocuous enough, but this bright sunny day will become terrifying. Cars pass Thornhill as he stands by the
road, but none even slows. Then a car comes down the dirt road from a distant farmhouse; it stops on the opposite side of the road from Thornhill and
a man gets out. The two look at each other but theres no sign of recognition. Finally Thornhill walks toward the other man; the camera tracks with him
so we can see his face, then dollies toward the second man, then back to Thornhill, then to the other and so on, until the two are face to face.
The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies hes waiting
for the bus: "Here she comes now." He waves the bus down, then says, "Thats funny. That planes dustin crops where there aint no crops." He
gets on the bus and it pulls away, leaving Thornhill completely alone and exposed, standing in the middle of a wide open space-and then the plane banks and comes toward
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