im trying to distract myself from work and you're really gunna do me like that virgo
-Vader
-Vader
You touch on some of it in your spoiler tag but it also prompts you to question why you're so attracted to someone or something in the first place. Do you like this person or thing just because they're beautiful or powerful or whatever and is that attraction right? Hence Scotty's change of heart/interrogation at the end. In Nolan's Elvis Mitchell interview for Inception he talks about how he and Leo used Scotty as a reference for Cobb. Its an evocative whirlwind of emotions that's amazingly crafted with its atmosphere, direction, music, and visuals etc but my reasons for adoring this film are pretty personal. Since I don't expect other people to have the same emotional baggage that I do it doesn't bother me if they're not crazy for Vertigo like I am. I'm a bit intoxicated so what the hell.Artemis wrote: ↑January 5th, 2019, 6:04 amVertigo
The fancy theater downtown was doing a midnight showing of this so I thought I'd go. I was kind of underwhelmed by this? Like the premise is pretty great and I loved Kim Novak and James Stewart in their roles. And Barbara Del Geddes was cute but I felt like her character never really went anywhereI did like it but I was really underwhelmed by it. Like this film is hyped up a lot and I don't think I ŕeally got that hype.
Maybe when I revisit it I'll see it differently.
dafox wrote: ↑January 6th, 2019, 5:58 amYou touch on some of it in your spoiler tag but it also prompts you to question why you're so attracted to someone or something in the first place. Do you like this person or thing just because they're beautiful or powerful or whatever and is that attraction right? Hence Scotty's change of heart/interrogation at the end. In Nolan's Elvis Mitchell interview for Inception he talks about how he and Leo used Scotty as a reference for Cobb. Its an evocative whirlwind of emotions that's amazingly crafted with its atmosphere, direction, music, and visuals etc but my reasons for adoring this film are pretty personal. Since I don't expect other people to have the same emotional baggage that I do it doesn't bother me if they're not crazy for Vertigo like I am. I'm a bit intoxicated so what the hell.Artemis wrote: ↑January 5th, 2019, 6:04 amVertigo
The fancy theater downtown was doing a midnight showing of this so I thought I'd go. I was kind of underwhelmed by this? Like the premise is pretty great and I loved Kim Novak and James Stewart in their roles. And Barbara Del Geddes was cute but I felt like her character never really went anywhereI did like it but I was really underwhelmed by it. Like this film is hyped up a lot and I don't think I ŕeally got that hype.
Maybe when I revisit it I'll see it differently.
I can see Vertigo being one of those movies where your perception of it changes after you've lived a little and went through some life stuff before returning to it.ArmandFancypants wrote: ↑January 6th, 2019, 4:43 pmImo Vertigo demands a return viewing which is oddly fitting
It's in a very small group of truly hypnotic films with 2001, Persona and Kwaidan for me