I always thought there was some real "wickedness" in the way they absolutely finessed the ending with that one cut, so the story makes perfect sense.
this past week, I was listening to an audiobook about the making of Hitchcock's Selznick- produced movies and discovered the surprising fact that in "Notorious," through pretty much every d…
I always thought there was some real "wickedness" in the way they absolutely finessed the ending with that one cut, so the story makes perfect sense.
this past week, I was listening to an audiobook about the making of Hitchcock's Selznick- produced movies and discovered the surprising fact that in "Notorious," through pretty much every draft, Devlin (Cary Grant) was supposed to get killed at the end. and in one draft, the Ingrid Bergman character goes back to her drunken party-girl ways. that ending was obviously the one Ben Hecht wanted, because he was extremely cynical about most things (check out Hecht's autobiography, "A Child of the Century" if you haven't read it...it's terrific). but the story is a romance as much as it is a thriller, and the happy ending is just more appropriate.
"Vertigo" might be my favorite, but it has holes in the plot you could drive a tank through. they're explained in the French novel the movie claims to be based on, but it turns out that the book was sort of written to order FOR the movie, almost like a novelization-of-the-screenplay-prior-to-the-screenplay. actually, forget that "almost like." that's what it was.
I always thought there was some real "wickedness" in the way they absolutely finessed the ending with that one cut, so the story makes perfect sense.
this past week, I was listening to an audiobook about the making of Hitchcock's Selznick- produced movies and discovered the surprising fact that in "Notorious," through pretty much every draft, Devlin (Cary Grant) was supposed to get killed at the end. and in one draft, the Ingrid Bergman character goes back to her drunken party-girl ways. that ending was obviously the one Ben Hecht wanted, because he was extremely cynical about most things (check out Hecht's autobiography, "A Child of the Century" if you haven't read it...it's terrific). but the story is a romance as much as it is a thriller, and the happy ending is just more appropriate.
"Vertigo" might be my favorite, but it has holes in the plot you could drive a tank through. they're explained in the French novel the movie claims to be based on, but it turns out that the book was sort of written to order FOR the movie, almost like a novelization-of-the-screenplay-prior-to-the-screenplay. actually, forget that "almost like." that's what it was.