Comments on Bright Lights After Dark: The Vertigo-Narcissus Connection

great understanding of the masters. sublime and in...

2009-10-27T22:00:09.658-07:00

great understanding of the masters. sublime and insightful.

More than Peeping Tom-Psycho i would go for a conn...

2009-10-05T20:41:39.785-07:00

More than Peeping Tom-Psycho i would go for a connection between Peeping Tom-Frenzy

Joseph et al. - To detail all the interconnection...

2009-10-04T12:32:58.834-07:00

Joseph et al. -

To detail all the interconnections between Hitchcock and Welles, alone, would take a long article. Aside from the connections already mentioned, there's Hitchcock casting Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt after having seen him in Kane and Ambersons and giving him a stand-out dinner table monologue which recalls in its emphasis Cotten's dinner table monologue in Ambersons. Then Welles makes The Stranger which borrows Shadow of a Doubt's basic plot idea - a well-spoken psycho killer passing for a good citizen in a small town . . .

As for the remarkable similarities between Psycho and Powell's Peeping Tom, both groundbreaking in their approach to horror, both released at about the same time, I think we really are talking about coincidence (a synchronicity occurring between two filmmakers of roughly the same age possessing similar temperaments).

Now I know why those two are among my all time fav...

2009-10-03T15:22:33.749-07:00

Now I know why those two are among my all time favorites. Thanks!

Others have written about the influence Welles had on Hitchcock and vice versa, e.g. Rebbecca ends with a burning pillow embroidered with an "R," and Kane ends with a burning sled. Touch of Evil has Vivian Leigh stranded in a roadside motel with a mother-obsessed night man.

Now I know why those two are among my all time fav...

2009-10-03T09:36:21.485-07:00

Now I know why those two are among my all time favorites. Thanks!

Others have written about the influence Welles had on Hitchcock, eg Rebbecca ends with a burning pillow embroidered with an "R," and Kane ends with a burning sled. Touch of Evil has Vivian Leigh stranded in a roadside motel with a mother-obsessed night man.

This was interesting. I see exactly what you mean,...

2009-10-02T22:42:16.084-07:00

This was interesting. I see exactly what you mean, and have sort of felt the connection between Vertigo and Black Narcissus without ever having consciously stumbled upon it. How does one explain the way they both managed to do lurid voyeuristic psychotic killer movies virtually simultaneously? Or is this the explanation?

I mean, how can you? Shocking coincidences indeed...

2009-09-30T22:06:37.947-07:00

I mean, how can you?

Shocking coincidences indeed!

You can you leave us there?

2009-09-30T22:05:29.248-07:00

You can you leave us there?