Acrophobia, the extreme or irrational fear of heights. In the film Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the main characters Scottie is a retired police officer with a terrible fear of heights; this fear causes him to quit his job as a police officer. A little later in the film, Scotty is seen with Midge, his ex-fiancé, where they talk about an old college friend, Gavin Elster. Elster wishes to meet with Scottie in hopes that he will follow his wife, Madeleine, which seems authentic and sincere. Madeleine has been showing some “odd” behavior, Elster believes this may be attributed to a supernatural possession of some kind. This intrigued Scottie. Elster tells Scottie to meet him and his wife the following night for dinner, but he is not actually …show more content…
Scottie follows her to a flower shop, a church, where she continues through the sanctuary to a cemetery, finally stopping at a grave. As Madeleine exits, Scottie takes note of the headstone, which has the name “Carlotta Valdes” on it. He then follows her to an art museum, where Madeleine sits and stares at a woman in a portrait for hours. He notes the similarities of the hairstyles and the bouquets both women, Madeleine and the woman in the portrait, are holding. Scottie inquiries about the portrait in a conversation with an employee at the museum, the portrait is titled “Portrait of Carlotta”. Finally, he trails her to a hotel and observes her in a second-floor window. Scottie enters the old hotel, after spotting her, and asks the manager who the occupant of the room is. The manager is hesitant in telling him, until Scottie reveals his former police badge. The manager claims the name of the woman is Carlotta Valdes, but that she hasn’t been in all day. Scottie finds this impossible since he saw her just a minute ago in the window, so he goes up to the room, which he finds indeed empty. He goes over to the window, to see that her car is gone from the
Which was sister souji who is a psychologist or someone who comes and preached and gives advice to those in trouble , in need of some good advice she is well known in new york . Winter gets introduced to sister souji who takes her in even though winter gives her a fake name . She asked sister souji if she knew her cousin midnight she said “yes” . Winter had lied and said that her mother was very sick and her mother wanted to see midnight which was her cousin . she asked if she could stay there which sister souji let her for a few weeks till midnight came to get her . Sister souji introduced her to her little sister lauren which who also liked to party and was a bit sneaky . Then the doctor who works down stairs and has her little clinic which winter seems to keeps an eye on because she make 300 dollars each patients . Sister souji gets invited to her friends party who most likely her boyfriend on the low but things don't seems to workout at the moment with his career and lifestyle as a rapper . Which winter sees a big opportunity to snatch and if she sleeps with the rapper she can make him fall in love with her body which is not true at all because the moment she gets a chance to go back to the mansion and gets picked to go up stairs . She gets played out. who she really sleeps with is the bodyguard .
In Mary Downing Hahn’s “The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall,” Downing Hahn shows that sometimes the best of people who deserve the best end up getting the worst. In this companion book, you will see the difference between the two main characters; Sophia and Florence. You will also find out about the setting and what dangers can go on at Crutchfield Hall. You will see what something in the book symbolizes, including the cat and the mice, and the cold. I will show you Sophia’s mind and her thoughts, and what she is planning on doing, more about her death, and possibilities of what could’ve happened.
This leads him into the next scene when he arrives at her house in a “gold jalopy.” Instantly, Connie is attracted to the car and worries about her appearance to the stranger at the door. However, she also experiences doubts and precaution because she is home alone and a stranger is approaching her house. This is her first experience with someone arriving to her house and does not have any exper...
The film Donnie Darko focuses on promoting hard thinking. The main character, Donnie Darko, is a teenage boy who suffers from delusions and sleepwalking. He avoids his own death by help from a man in a bunny suit. Who also informs Donnie that the world will end. Fear and loneliness is shown throughout the movie and is embodied as being controlled by fear, preying on the fear of others, and fear of tragedy .
How Alfred Hitchcock Makes the Viewing of Psycho a Frightening and Worrying Experience I am currently studying Alfred Hitchcock Psycho. Psycho is such an important film because it redefined the genres of thrillers and established the genre used by many film writers today such as Wes Craven (Scream 1/2/3) of stalk and slash movies, using camera angles and other techniques. Hitchcock creates tension in a variety of ways using specific camera angles and high and low pitched music. Although the film proved a big box office success, only gradually did this macabre experiment in black humour become the object of closer scrutiny and more intense analysis. The consensus today is that Psycho is a classic of cinematic art and admiration worldwide.
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a film which functions on multiple levels simultaneously. On a literal level it is a mystery-suspense story of a man hoodwinked into acting as an accomplice in a murder, his discovery of the hoax, and the unraveling of the threads of the murder plot. On a psychological level the film traces the twisted, circuitous routes of a psyche burdened down with guilt, desperately searching for an object on which to concentrate its repressed energy. Finally, on an allegorical or figurative level, it is a retelling of the immemorial tale of a man who has lost his love to death and in hope of redeeming her descends into the underworld.
Moorhouse has portrayed the character’s facial expressions efficiently throughout the film with the use of effective camera angles that engages the audience. The atmosphere of the film entirely changes from contented to gloomy due to sudden Teddy’s sudden death. A close up shot was used to capture the sadness and heartbreak on Tilly’s face as she held teddy’s hand while cleaned his body for his funeral. The use of slow instrumental music featuring violin and piano enhanced the facial expressions of the character and helped the audience to empathize with her. Moorhouse uses a medium close up shot that framed the teacher and Marigold Pettyman in a scene when Marigold discovers the truth about Tilly being the reason behind her son’s death “You think your little boy fell of the tree? Wrong…” The shot helps the audience to evidently comprehend the pain and sorrow on her face after finding the shocking truth about her son’s death. Emphasise on the theme of grief and loss was prolonged when Molly collapses on the road due to suffering from a stroke. A high angle shot is used as Molly laid on the floor in the doctor’s office to demonstrate the pain she was suffering through. The scene effectively portrays Tilly’s love for her mother as she tightly held her hand and kissed her forehead while soft piano music played in the background serenading the audience to strongly stay connected to the characters. The following scene used a close up shot to focus on Tilly’s facial expressions to determine the audience of the fear she felt of losing her mother after being apart from her for so many
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Miss Maudie Atkinson’s (43) house was set ablaze on December 15th. The snow had just fallen for the first time since 1885. Maudie set a fire in the kitchen to warm up late Tuesday night when it caught the rest of the house. Around 1:00 am the commotion started and people were outside the burning home. The men of the neighborhood rushed to get Miss Maudie and her belongings out. No one was hurt thankfully, other than Mr. Avery, who was saving items from the upstairs when the stairs burned out and had to climb through the window where he then fell into Miss Maudie’s bushes. The bad news is the house is totally destroyed. There is no disappointment from Miss Maudie though, who is very optimistic and says “I’ve always wanted to build a smaller
On a drive on Highway 50, through Nevada to see a real ghost town, Agnes finds a little girl named Rebecca who has been separated by her family who was looking Leister 's gold. The capper of the whole thing is that Agnes saw the whole thing in a dream, but she gets to the Goldberg Hotel and Saloon, she realizes the whole thing was real, especially the inside of her room. She soon finds out that the entire hotel is haunted by all kinds of spirits from past guests; which only serves to make Agnes 's vacation that much more interesting. She wants to find out what happened to the family. She knows with every fiber of her being that it was not just a dream, and that a little girl really did go missing in the night before Agnes showed up. Will they be able to find the missing kid or will a killer (called “The Cutter”) ruin their
Janie’s first attempt at love does not turn out quite like she hopes. Her grandmother forces her into marrying Logan Killicks. As the year passes, Janie grows unhappy and miserable. By pure fate, Janie meets Joe Starks and immediately lusts after him. With the knowledge of being wrong and expecting to be ridiculed, she leaves Logan and runs off with Joe to start a new marriage. This is the first time that Janie does what she wants in her search of happiness: “Even if Joe was not waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good…From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything” (32). Janie’s new outlook on life, although somewhat shadowed by blind love, will keep her satisfied momentarily, but soon she will return to the loneliness she is running from.
In restless sleep and longing for contact with those outside of Bly-- particularly her employer-- the governess placed hope in chance meetings of random individuals. In her walk in the yard, the governess began to wish for the sight of her employer who she was still madly in love with. The governess's desire to see him and receive his reassuring approval conceived the ghost of what was later revealed to be Peter Quint she believed she had seen. Later in her climax of interaction with her ghosts, the governess is afraid that the master will come home, for she is fearful of what he will think of her.
As she starts her teen years she is starting to think more about romance. She listens to other woman talking about their husbands, and she wonders if she wants one. When Jeanette is walking downtown she meets Melanie, a girl working at a fish stall. Jeanette gets a job washing dishes at an ice-cream shop, and eventually Melanie and Jeanette become friends. Jeanette brings Melanie to church so she can be saved by Jesus. After that, they spend more and more time together which eventually leads into them falling in love ...
Raoul admitted his true feelings for her. Christine didn’t say anything. Raoul was hurt. He answered for her. He said that she has feelings for someone else, the person that was in her room. Christine was in complete shock. She immediately said, “I thought I was the only one that can hear the voice.” She started crying. Raoul was concerned, so he asked what was wrong. She told Raoul a secret. She said that her father used to tell her the Angel of Music will visit her and sing with his heavenly voice. After the conversation was over, she locked herself in the room. A little before after midnight, Christine slipped out of her room. She was in her white form, and she seemed to be in a trance. Raoul was following her through the churchyard. At the stroke of twelve, Raoul heard a rich and sweet voice, but he saw no one but Christine. Raoul waited for the singer to appear. When the singing stopped, Christine returned to her inn, as if in a daze. He saw a shadow glide through the wall. He ran up to it and pulled the cloak off his head. The last thing he remembered seeing was a snarling face and a pair of scorching eyes. Back at the opera house, Mr. Moncharmin and Mr. Richard were searching Box Five. They agreed to sit at Box Five this night. Mr. Moncharmin found another letter. He opened it and read it. It said to give the ghost Box Five, make Christine Daae perform, hire Mrs. Giry again and give her the letter accepting his demands. At the
In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped these fears so that people looked to authorities for security, which permitted extension of apparatuses of coercion like police and military forces.” Panic is a sudden sensation of fear which is so strong as to completely dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with only overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with animalistic reactions. Panic can occur singularly in individuals or appear suddenly in groups as panic. All beings capable of emotion have felt panic before. Panic is best visualized as uncovering a colony of cockroaches