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Hitchcock Masterpiece Mondays: Rope
Did you know…
The whole film is done in ten-minute takes (the maximum amount of film held in a film camera) and transitions from one take to the other are covered by the people walking into shot filling the screen. This gives us the impression that we are seeing what is happening in real time. This is the legend.
However, there is said to be one definite cut, when Brandon talks about Philip strangling chickens, Philip shouts and then we cut directly to Rupert’s face. The repeated ideas in “Rope” by Hitchcock are the cultured villain (two this time); Hats; Neon (colored lights make red, green and blue hues on the characters as emotions come to the boil). In “Rope,” Hitchcock is not concerned with the characters and their moral dilemmas. Here the concern is on the way the characters look, sound and move, and with the overall spectacle of how a perfect crime goes wrong.
The film was based on a play by Patrick Hamilton, which was based on the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case, the story of two homosexual law students in Chicago who murdered a 14 year old boy for kicks to prove they were super intelligent and could get away with it. Though the movie was made back in the days when any suggestion of homosexuality was supposedly taboo, Hitchcock’s “Rope” is immediately explicit in characterization, without actually committing any offenses the Production Code people could object to. The Climax is fitting, that Hitchcock’s theme of death end in a pistol’s climatic ejaculation out the window, a moment of necessary exposure, leaving the three principal characters alone with their sobering revelations under the camera’s inescapable gaze, feels paradoxically liberating. With a running time of 80 minutes, “Rope” is a fascinating experiment that still remains as a provocative entertainment.
Screening starts at dusk. Arrive early to grab a good seat and a great drink.
See you soon!