The Influence of 'Vertigo'
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- If you love film, you're most likely aware of Vertigo's impact on cinema. Alfred Hitchcock's heavily-referenced masterpiece has served as key inspiration for some of today's best filmmakers, like David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Martin Scorsese. In many ways, it almost singlehandedly changed the landscape of filmmaking. What is it about this film that makes it so important?
When Vertigo was released in 1958, it was met with mixed reviews. That’s hard to believe now, but back then, during a time when Hollywood was just beginning to transition out of its classical era, Vertigo was unlike anything else in theaters. From its use of the zolly to its lighting and color, Vertigo was an artistic exercise in craft and emotion and personal desires. It was unheard of in 1958.
Vertigo’s real inspirational value lies in what it did for filmmaking. It showed future filmmakers that they could make something personal and express themselves with a camera. It showed them that color and editing are just as important as dialogue. It showed everyone what film could be.
How has Vertigo affected you? Check out two more cinematic interpretations of the film in Between 2 Deaths and Labyrinthine.
'La La Land' has that green light coming in through the window of Seb's apartment. Always took that as Vertigo nod.
Jonny Mann Homage of an Homage. I am fairly sure Hitch took the idea from “The Great Gatsby.”
@@jasoncromwell4206 You do realize that Vertigo came before The Great Gatsby, right?
@@kylie2461 Vertigo-1959
The Great Gatsby-1925
Jason Cromwell Oh, you’re talking about the book
Hitchcock borrowed the green light from Gatsby. The Green Light is mentioned quite frequently in the book. It's part of the warning.
Fincher talking of Hitchcock as a filmmaker is a gem.
So tense, so good. Now going to watch Rear Window, Psycho and North by Northwest.
Did you like them ?
Don't forget Strangers On A Train and The Man Who Knew Too Much (the remake).
You forgot to mention Bernard Herrmann's score
you forgot 'ugly, lazy and disrespectful'
What?
Just because he didn't include does not mean he forgot. This is a 4 minute long video. I think it's great.
Never mind
Bernard Herrmann? Don't you mean Richard Wagner? ;)
Hitchcock films are all masterpieces.
I love Vertigo. My number 1 of Hitchcock, and my number 4 of best films ever made.
which are the other 3?
marios k
1. The Tree of Life (2011, Malick)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
3. Zerkalo (1975, Tarkovsky)
4. Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)
@@jakobkristensen9445 Where is Seven Samurai on your list?
@@b00merism its his list
@@jakobkristensen9445 Agree
One of my favorite movies of all time !!!!!
Every single softcore 1990s erotic thriller used “Vertigo” as a template.
Basic Instinct is, in spirit if not in storyline, practically a remake of Vertigo. And it's the best ripoff of Vertigo there is.
@@jamesxenophon9505 “Color of Night” with Bruce Willis is another blatant example.
Lost Highway
Damn i enjoyed this video, the voice overs are alot better now to!
VERTIGO-THE BEST!!!!
2:58. 'What's most fascinating about Vertigo's influence, is that most film makers seem to be rather indifferent to the film's actual plot'. With Martin Scorsese saying, "I don't take any of it, as a story seriously, I mean, as a realistic story. So the plot is just a line that you can hang things on. And the 'things' that he hangs on there, are aspects of cinema poetry".' What?! Now, I'm no film student, and I'm doing this from memory and I've only seen it twice, but let us take a look at the 'non existent' plot. ... A retired police detective, who has a loving girlfriend and stable home life, though a bit dull, is approached by a friend to spy on his wife as he fears for her sanity. The 'friend' turns out not to be a friend at all. He is using Scottie, duping him and taking advantage of his handicap, in a set up to murder his wife. The retired police detective is fascinated by Kim Novak (who wouldn't be!) and falls in love with her, endangering his relationship with his long time girlfriend, and endangering himself, as he is put in a position which to him is terrifying. He watches with despair as the women he loves, falls to her death and he could not prevent it. He is accused initially of her murder, but quite rightly, clears his name. As has happened often to those who lose a loved one, he sees the woman's face everywhere, until by chance he sees someone that looks like her and tries to turn her into the woman he misses so much. The 'new' woman does actually fall in love with him, he has back what he thought he had lost forever and to overcome his inner demons, tries to face them down, to vanquish a foe which haunts him. But the woman also falls to her death. Leaving Scottie facing double murder, yet is innocent of any crime. No story?!
rhythman69uk You misheard and misquoted what he said. He didn't say there was no plot or story.
I agree. This “plot doesn’t matter” stuff is baloney. His plots were always so good and simple yet intriguing, like birds attack.
@@lillieknight I think you're all missing the point... yes obviously Vertigo has a plot and it isn't "non-existent". What a lot of people seem to think (myself included) is that when it comes to the film as a whole the plot doesn't really matter in the long-run. What makes vertigo great imo is HOW the story is told with great emphasis on visual representation and heavy literary subtext. So much is shown and said through the film without actually being spoken aloud. When I first watched it I thought exactly along the lines of Scorsese. The story itself wasn't what enthralled me, it was HOW it was executed.
Vertigo was given mixed reviews imho because critics are generally lazy and disappointed when they have think outside the box their la-dee-dah world of comfortable, similar and popular plot lines, and the same actors over and over, and because newspaper and magazine publishers think their readers are anti-intellectuals who have to be trained what to think.
EXACTLY!
No words, to such a great movie...!!
Thanks a lot.
Excellent video.
Good video. But you didn't point out that the whole idea from Hitchcock was to get close to the art of the european films of (for example) Luis Buñuel, filmmakers that Hitchcock admired.
Thanks, I'm going to check that out.
I just suspected this but I could only think of 60s films which came after this
Kim Novak's moment of splendor. NO one else could have been Madeleine, certainly not Vera Miles the original choice.
Audrey isn't capable of any malevolent aspect, and NOVAK could show both feelings . Audrey a super extra one in My fair lady !!!!@randywhite3947
This channel is underrated.
nah....
Good video essay.
Great job
Doesn't get much better.
The silent directors had done this long before...why start with Hitchcock when there was a Murnau, a Dreyer, a Seastrom? Hitchcock learned from Weimar cinema, the root on which Vertigo flowered.
Please don't forget Hitchcock was British. Not American.
Read Elbert’s review.
I agree with Scorsese xxx
TCM Ben Mankiewicz host constantly puts down classic masterpiece VERTIGO....why is this person allowed to do this?
Because he's a small man trading on the name & success of a skillful ancestor.
whos the guy at 2:30?
David Fincher, one of the best directors ever.
David Fincher… Fight Club, Seven, Alien 3, The Social Network, Gone Girl, A Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, Mindhunter, list goes on!
Also so influential that the academy award winning film, "The Artist" stole the music in it's climactic sequence (I had mixed feelings at the time but now, looking back at The Artist they are banking on the emotion from Vertigo. It really doesn't fit. They should have come up with an original score - Novac was pissed off) ruclips.net/video/v2Yc1RNFp_Y/видео.html
ok
2:12
but i enjoyed the plot too.
The bottom line is in 3:04 You cant take the story of Vertigo seriously
Yes it wasn't until the 70's the directors discovered they could tell a story cinematographically, wtf!!
what is this video even talking about???
He hasnt seen Hara-Kiri then
Good editing, but grandiose and simplistic claims and very narcissistic, the "era we love", it's also the era of spin-offs, re-boots, franchising, pre-equels, sequels, branding, re-boots, remakes, re-imaginings. Also, bring into the mix a generation of directors brought up watching a) bland Tv, 2) living off the same films again and again and referencing them, 3) nihilism - many films are spiritually dead, 4) the constrictions of the autuer theory (so that director refernce images and even soundtracks from other films because they aren't will to trust, co-creators) and 5) woke politics, attitudes and other delusions. It's not really a lovable era. A case could be made for any other era too, from the silent period, to the present.
Yeah, I think directors knew how to do that during the silent picture era.
kind of a shallow overview using edited using other peoples work ....
Why does this narrator (and so many modern Americans ) speak in that distracting accent ? raised inflexion at the end of sentences so that declarative sentences sound like questions. A few decades ago this sort of speech would never be heard,now it's very common and difficult to listen to.
For the same reason an actor walked up on stage during his industry's major award ceremony and slapped a person in full view of a worldwide audience. Low culture has infiltrated pop culture. The gauche has replaced elegance in the arts as pop has degraded art. Hollywood and a ghetto now have little to differentiate them except money.
There's no such thing as American New Wave...Unless you're copying "the French New Wave"
Kakki82 -Roddy M the American new wave was, in fact, a real thing. You cannot deny that a talented generation of filmmakers (starting around the mid 60s) changed American cinema. Yes, these filmmakers were greatly influenced by the French new wave but that is not “copying”. The American new wave was also more than just a shift in aesthetic choices. The movement gave the cinematic world things that the French new wave couldn’t and the same goes the other way...
Well said. I meant the title. I never heard that period of american filmmakers refered to as New Wave. Perhaps American Mavericks..hmm There is such a term usually used to call those pioneer 60's american filmmakers.I'm sure I heard it somewhere. Certainly not American New Wave.
It's just another term for "New Hollywood".
Some anal-ysts can't see beyond their little world.
Vertigo would have been better if they used Vera miles. A actress not a model.
I don’t get why so many people like this movie
Because it’s good.
Same thought I had until I rewatched it, changed my mind
The best film.
Saw this film for second time.
Still cannot comprehend the critics praise. Calling it as great as Citizen Kane?
Don't believe it's Hitchcock's greatest effort. (NxNW, Psycho)
Two times is not enough; I have seen it more than twenty times. For me, it’s the best Hitchcock film (Rear Window is my second fav) and probably the best film of all time, though can’t argue that Citizen Kane is the superior technical achievement.
Believe it or not? Totally understand the mixed reviews, it’s ok, wildly overrated. Give me Fight Club, Barton Fink, Bad Boy Bubby, Eternal Sunshine, Melancholia, A Scanner Darkly, Monsters, Donnie Darko, A Clockwork Orange or a slew of others movies ahead of this.
Most of those just don't have the same re-watchability. No one needs to see Fight Club more than twice in their lifetime.
I don't remember seeing such a badly written and narrated film essay in a long time
I don't like James Stewart so I don't like Hitchcock's movies too much, just Rope and Psycho.
@Randy White You sound like in all of cinema history only Hitchcock makes good movies. Hitchcock in many ways influenced cinema but i don't have to like his movies. I don't have to like James Stewart. According to you everyone who doesn't like Hitchcock has a terrible taste.
@Randy White you are an idiot
Huh? James Stewart is a ducking legend
James Stewart stars in Rope.
Hitchcock, the best director. Stewart, among the best actors.
I asked the question, back in the early 60’s how would the patient “Scottie Ferguson,” Jimmy Stewart’s character be treated in the in patient psych hospital. I looked at Thorazine, then I saw the add that was in most medical journals at the time. The enclosed is for perusal:
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I thought Hitch might have seen this add
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