Rebecca
Ohjaus:
Alfred HitchcockKuvaus:
George BarnesSävellys:
Franz WaxmanNäyttelijät:
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
In Alfred Hitchcock's first American film, a young, unnamed narrator meets a wealthy widower Maxin de Winter in Monte Carlo, where they fall in love and get married. Maxim takes his new bride to Manderlay, his large country estate in Cornwall. The mansion's servants, however, refuse to accept her as the lady of the house. They seem stubbornly loyal to de Winter's first wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously. Mrs. Danvers, the estate's rigid housekeeper, is obsessed with Rebecca and keeps her room as shrine, constantly referring to her as "the real Mrs. de Winter." The new Mrs. de Winter nearly goes mad until an investigation leads to uncovering Rebecca's true nature. (Criterion)
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Rebecca is the first Hitchcock film I’ve ever seen. I am impressed with the director's genius because his use of light and music is amazing. Moreover, he manages the atmosphere perfectly (of course, this is not uncommon with Hitchcock, as I had already read somewhere). Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine are great cast members and give great performances. Anyway, I'm certainly going to start looking for more of his masterpieces very soon. The Birds and Vertigo are on my list. :)
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In Hitchcock's Rebecca, the similarity of Du Maurier's novel to Brontë's seminal work "Jane Eyre" stands out. It's no coincidence that Joan Fontaine plays the lead roles in both of these Hollywood gothic novels shortly after each other. Unfortunately, neither she nor Olivier in Rebecca transcended the mannerisms of the time. The 90's series was also weak, but in some aspects, its dramatization was much more interesting than the script of the Hollywood all-star team. However, I'll try to give it another chance, for a change on Netflix.
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Rather than in the story itself, the joy of watching this movie lies chiefly in savouring the beautiful, elegant filmmaking of early Hollywood, with spectacular scenes and with excellently selected and stylized actors. The story is rather dated, unable to engage as it once did, and it becomes exciting only in the final revelation. Moreover, the anxious position of the main character in the story is more relatable to the female rather than to the male audience. For me, Rebecca is all about Laurence Olivier’s star power and charisma, the design and atmosphere of the gloomy Manderley Mansion, and the black silhouette of a mysterious housekeeper in the interiors with long curtains. These are the elements that Hitchock revisited in his later and, in my opinion, more significant works.
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For a while I felt that Rebecca was being drawn out a little more than it needed to, but after the final half hour I found out that I actually don't know what I would cut from Rebecca, what I'd throw out... and mainly, why the hell would I do it? It's an engaging, mystery-saturated and astonishingly-looking story, in which you recognize Hitchcock in the opening dream (and confirm your presumption in the following clifftop scene), and you won't get rid of him until the end. Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine act perfectly, the atmosphere is beautifully unpredictable, and it all looks amazing - that arrival at Manderley in heavy rain, the view through the wiped front window of the automobile... So beautiful.
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