Rope

Rope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLsbzhOEHg

Rope is an 1948 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock which is about these two men who strangle their "inferior" classmate. They hide his body in their apartment and invite their friends and family to challenge the perfection of their crime. the films stars James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger.

This film showed that both Brandon and Philip are are powerful villains as their plan to kill David was improvised and done without anyone realising. Just like actual villains they had no resentment and were proud of their killing resulting to them wanting to celebrate their success. This indicates that they are powerful and intelligent. however just like other films both of the villains had rivals, James Stewart who played Rupert was secretly investigating the incidence. This caused Philip to contemplate whether what they done was worth the outcome, yet Brandon to challenge Rupert furthermore testing his intelligence.  

there was many suspenseful moments during the film, for example the scene where everyone asked why they were eating on top of the trunk where they hid the body. we all began to think that someone out of their suspicion will ask whats underneath the trunk and find the dead body. This lead on during the whole film where someone will hint their suspicion towards the dead body yet we never got the right accusation. This created suspense as they were all so close from finding out and they could have found out any minute then. 

We didn't want the body to be found, which was unusual as usually we would be against the villain however the audience just wanted the guests to go away so that the villains could get away with their crime. I believe this happened because we got to know the characters well and to us they were the main characters which usually isn't the case with villains. the audience probably felt as if they were the villain too and wanted to get away with the crime without anyone knowing. this follows Hitchcock's rules as he mentions he wanted the audience to feel what the characters are feeling. 

A technique which carried out during the whole film was dramatic irony which was that we knew what was in the trunk however the guests who came to the party didn't. This was used since the beginning of the film till right at the end. This created effect as created us to experience the feeling of the villains


The film included levi strauss' idea of binary opposition as there was a subordinate group. this included the three homosexual men who could not show that they were gay through the films or to the other members of the casts as homosexuality wasn't something that was as easily admitted in that time.  Therefore the three men had to hide their affection for males and act like they were straight men.