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A paper which compares and contrasts Hitchcock's Rope and North by Northwest, looking in particular at the differences in structure, theme and genre between the two, and the extent to which they demonstrate the director's "vision of evil". Bibliography lists two sources.
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on Hitchcocks talent as a director: the narrative, form and structure of the two films is vastly different, as is the ambience and atmosphere which is conveyed.
North by Northwest, despite the typical Hitchcock twists and turns
in the plot, is in many respects a conventional, even light-hearted, thriller: as Brooke (2005) points out, virtually all of the James Bond movies can trace their origins to North
by Northwest. It is, as Brooke also observes, a movie which is crammed full of clich?s, and yet manages to present them in a new and entertaining way.
Hitchcocks protagonist, Thornhill, is something of
an accidental hero: due to a case of mistaken identity, he is hurled into the world of villainy and espionage and only discovers various essential and salient facts some time
after the audience does, which adds to the impact of dramatic irony. As Brooke states, the slickness and sophistication of his opposite number, played by James Mason as "one of
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and murder are concerned. Unlike Bond and his ilk, Thornhill is not
trained to deal with this criminal subculture, and consequently much of the action is derived from his ability to use his own quick-wittedness and cynicism to stay ahead of the
enemy.
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