I'm not seeking any attention here, it's just that I wish more people my age could appreciate old classics like this. It happens to be one of my favourite Hitchcock films. Are there any others in a similar position to me?
shareI think this film is good, but for your other question, I am only 18 and these are some of my favorite films http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031367581/
shareme for sure.
i've been enchanted by this movie from early on, i've read the book more than few times also as a kid.
this film had influcence on myself - i love monte carlo ever since i saw it and all modern movies will never measure up to this classic because i deem it the fine example of what perfect movie ought to be.
The first Hitchcock picture I ever saw was Dial M For Murder, when I was about 11 years old. I loved it then. Still do. I actually prefer it to Rear Window.
shareAlthough I am not so young anymore, I can remember what it was like, and while some of the younger men who love this film likely love it for any or every of the reasons others do, there are two obvious things about it in such context.
First is yes, it is not the typical kind of movie that males short of 21 watch, at least in terms of what we know about movie audiences. So on some level that might seem remarkable, but is it, really? Even those who love action movies or their ilk may like a change of pace.
But the second is imo the more significant factor, and that is how the young Joan Fontaine comes across in this film. Only 22 at the time it was shot, she was of course about the same age as the 20 year old standard referenced by the OP here. And although shot over 75 years ago, there is a timeless element to her character. Her relative lack of makeup and a hairstyle closer to something a woman could wear today than, say, the vamp look of only a couple of years earlier (Theda Bara or early Joan Crawford, for example) makes her appearance subtly familiar, at the same time Ms. Fontaine's great beauty combines with a self effacing, and charming, manner. In short who could not fall in love with such a character? Well, maybe some, but you can't please everyone.
Following on that last thought, I do not to be clear intend to speak for everyone, but you can certainly I think understand why some significant group of younger men would find in the character of the second Mrs. de Winter as performed by Joan Fontaine would find this film so, well, appealing.
I am 24 and watched it a few days ago. Loved it very much. Have not seen Vertigo yet , so i rate this movie his second best, after Psycho.
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You really need to see Vertigo. Rebecca and that film are for me neck and neck as the best of Hitchcock. Perhaps Jimmy Stewart's best performance along with Liberty Valence, and an outstanding performance by Kim Novak, one that is nearly up there with Ms. Fontaine's here.
You really need to see Vertigo. Rebecca and that film are for me neck and neck as the best of Hitchcock. Perhaps Jimmy Stewart's best performance along with Liberty Valence, and an outstanding performance by Kim Novak, one that is nearly up there with Ms. Fontaine's here.
People who love film will watch pretty much anything, casual viewers won't. The problem is that many casual viewers do tend to consider themselves film lovers.
shareSame here. I love this film. I have since I first saw it as a young teenager. I watch it again from time to time and I am still amazed at how it gets better on re-watch.
"You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!"
I'm 23 and I love old films. And I mean REALLY old, like Charie Chaplin's silent movies and Nosferatu, which was made in 1922.
shareGood for you! I was into Classical Hollywood cinema in my 20's too and still I enjoy older films much more than todays movies, there’s a certain charm to them.
shareIt is a good one.
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