"Rope" Hitchcock's transcendent skill demonstrated in one scene and one cut

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"Rope" synopsis

A room in a high-rise apartment overlooking the New York skyline. In order to put Nietzsche's ``superhuman ideology'' into practice, Brandon and Philip murder their college classmate David. Furthermore, they invite David's father, girlfriend, and college teacher Rupert to a party in order to experience the superiority of being the "chosen one." The plan that was supposed to be perfect eventually starts to show signs of unraveling...

Index

• Murder committed by two students with superhuman beliefs
• One scene, one cut, real-time “illusion”
• Hitchcock's transcendental skill highlighted by shackles
• “Making a movie that kills is a creative force.”

Murder committed by two students with superhuman beliefs

On May 23, 1924, the body of 14-year-old Bobby Franks was discovered beneath the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. Based on physical and circumstantial evidence, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., 19, and Richard Albert Loeb, 18, were arrested. The two were wealthy students attending the University of Chicago.

The motive is not a grudge, financial troubles, or a tangle of lust. The two men believed in the idea of ​​"superhumanism," a concept proposed by the German philosopher Nietzsche, and committed the murder in order to prove that they were the "chosen ones." They believed that a truly intelligent person would not be bound by society's normal ethics and rules. The person he killed could have been anyone. As a result of the trial, the two men were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and 99 years for kidnapping. Leopold was later paroled, and Loeb was murdered in prison by an inmate.

"Rope" preview

This incident caused a huge stir and was made into a play by Patrick Hamilton in 1929. The film based on the play is the psychological crime thriller Rope(1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The setting is a high-rise apartment room overlooking the New York skyline. In order to put Nietzsche's ``superhuman ideology'' into practice, Brandon (John Dole) and Philip (Farley Granger) murder their college classmate David. Furthermore, they invite David's father, girlfriend, and college teacher Rupert (James Stewart) to a party to experience the superiority of being the "chosen one." The plan that was supposed to be perfect eventually starts to show signs of unraveling...

This film can be said to be Hitchcock's most experimental work. After all, it is a ``one-scene, one-cut movie'' where the story progresses in real time. Nowadays, it is not uncommon to 1917 '' (2019) and ` `Boiling Point '' (21). However, at the time, it was an extremely daring challenge. After much painstaking efforts, Hitchcock was able to carry out this experiment.

One scene, one cut, real-time “illusion”