Thank you, I enjoyed this very much! Just an aside: incidental music in Hitchcock is never coincidental. My favorite of all was the carousel tune in Strangers on a Train which is 'And the Band Played On'. This 1890's song has the ominous phrase "His brain was so loaded it nearly exploded, the poor girl shook with alarm". The tune suffuses the murder scene and comes back to Bruno as he is strangling Mrs. Cunningham. One of the most beautiful shots in 30's Hitchcock is the death of Mr. Memory in 39 Steps. The dying Mr. Memory in semi darkness with a row of brightly lit kicking chorines in diminishing perspective and the raucous music hall music and atmosphere that both Hitchcock and Fellini both loved from their youth. Hermann's wonderful Stork Club Mambo that opens The Wrong Man under the titles with the a series of fades into ever diminishing dancers till the music stops and the movie begins. It is a sub-category of 'intentional incidental music'. And by the way there is silence and there is silence. In Saboteur, the climax on top of the statue of liberty has NO music but one of Hitchcock's most exquisitely calibrated sound scripts ending in a distant woman's scream. The wind sound and distant city sounds gave me more vertigo than anything in Vertigo!
Music makes Hitchcock: Hitchcock! Hitchcock makes music: music! It is a shame that the problem with Bernard Herrmann happened. Wanting to have a "pop song" for "Torn Curtain" precipitated the break with Herrmann when the song that ended up in the film was just O.K. Hitchcock could be a poop!
Thank you, I enjoyed this very much! Just an aside: incidental music in Hitchcock is never coincidental. My favorite of all was the carousel tune in Strangers on a Train which is 'And the Band Played On'. This 1890's song has the ominous phrase "His brain was so loaded it nearly exploded, the poor girl shook with alarm". The tune suffuses the murder scene and comes back to Bruno as he is strangling Mrs. Cunningham. One of the most beautiful shots in 30's Hitchcock is the death of Mr. Memory in 39 Steps. The dying Mr. Memory in semi darkness with a row of brightly lit kicking chorines in diminishing perspective and the raucous music hall music and atmosphere that both Hitchcock and Fellini both loved from their youth. Hermann's wonderful Stork Club Mambo that opens The Wrong Man under the titles with the a series of fades into ever diminishing dancers till the music stops and the movie begins. It is a sub-category of 'intentional incidental music'.
And by the way there is silence and there is silence. In Saboteur, the climax on top of the statue of liberty has NO music but one of Hitchcock's most exquisitely calibrated sound scripts ending in a distant woman's scream. The wind sound and distant city sounds gave me more vertigo than anything in Vertigo!
La música que le ponen al Quiroga ,es de película Alfred Hitchcock
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Music makes Hitchcock: Hitchcock!
Hitchcock makes music: music!
It is a shame that the problem with Bernard Herrmann happened.
Wanting to have a "pop song" for "Torn Curtain" precipitated the break with Herrmann when the song that ended up in the film was just O.K.
Hitchcock could be a poop!