Hitchcocks North By Northwest: The Birth of the Modern Action Film

1959 was an exciting year in the history of filmmaking. There are great talents all over the world. In France, Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, Resnais all directed the first movie, which brought about a new wave of France. In Italy, Fellini made elegant La Dolce Vita and Antonioni gave me L'Avventura. Most importantly, in the United States, the famous British director Alfred Hitchcock gave a classic thriller to the northwest of the father of modern action films.

Alfred Hitchcock, of course, is known as a master of suspense in contemporary movies. Movies like Psycho and The Birds let the audience sit on the edge of the seat and gaze at the screen. North by Northwest is a curious movie. There are several factors, such as wrong identity, deadly assassin, and dangerous queen masterpiece. But early in the movie, Hitchcock decided to take the movie in a different direction. And provided some humorous moments that seemed to weaken the suspense of the movie.

This is the simplest misunderstanding that led to one of the most misleading action movies taking place in the northwestern part of Alfred Hitchcock. There is no doubt that all of us are familiar with Ian Fleming's approach to Hitchcock after the success of North West Airways. Therefore, it is no doubt that Hick made James Bond appear. Telephone card is the movie of 1959. The reason why Fleming is inspired by Hitchcock's speech is clear. The perfect action structure by MacGuffin has been proved to be consistent with Fleming's ideal movie and the general structure in the north may not be fair. . In early Bond movies, Tendence Young and Lewis Gilbert of the early Bond movies and others mimicked the northwestern part. Hitchcock's movie structure may have much in common with the Bond series, but the same thing can not be said about actual content.

North by Northwest is listed as one of the typical Hitchcock movies of the 1950s and is often listed as one of the best films ever. It was chosen as the National Film Register by the National Diet Library in 1995 and has "cultural, historical or aesthetic significance". This is 1958. At the hotel bar in New York, the two mobs seeking "George Kaplan" saw the waiter calling his name, while advertising director Roger Thornhill called the waiter (send a watch to his mother To help). . Therefore, Thornhill was kidnapped by being mistaken for "George Kaplan." Thornhill was taken to the Long Island Estate of Lester Townsend and interrogated by Spy Phillip Vandamm. Thornhill denied that he was George Kaplan, but Vandamm thought that he was lying and let Thornhill arrange his heart to die in a drunk driving accident.