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An 8 page paper which examines the interaction between love and money in each of these three classic films, how it affects the lives of the characters seems to lead to murder. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: TG15_TGlovmur.rtf
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a poster publicizing Alfred Hitchcocks 1941 suspense thriller, Suspicion, but could also be used to describe the ill-fated protagonists of Billy Wilders 1944 film, Double Indemnity and George Eastmans 1951
social drama, A Place in the Sun. Each of these films were based on novels but through the exercise of creative license and by emphasizing the tension that only
the visual cinema can produce (with the audience witnessing the impending danger that the characters are unable to see), the written word is transformed into the complexity of human emotions,
where the fine line between good and evil, poverty and prosperity, life and death, is often obscured. The characters depicted in each of these classics are not one-dimensional caricatures;
they could have very well been Everyman or woman, a friend, a neighbor, a co-worker. They are ultimately led to act not by reason but by what they believe
to be love. Their situations are presented as pieces of an intricate puzzle, which audiences must fit together based upon their own perceptions of events. In the final
analysis, it is the way these characters and their actions are perceived and how the filmmakers attempt to influence the interpretations of these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the
spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" had not yet been cemented when he directed Suspicion, which was an adaptation of Francis Iles Before the Fact
(Suspicion, 1995). In typical 1940s melodrama fashion, wealthy but socially unsophisticated spinster Lina McLaidlaw (played by Joan Fontaine who was awarded the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance)
finds herself falling madly in love with a "scoundrel" named Johnnie Aysgarth, who comes from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks (Suspicion, 1995). There seems little doubt why
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