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North by Northwest begins with its exposition, introducing the "normal" / "typical" life of our main character Robert Thornhill...
-  Robert Thornhill = main character ...
- Busy life in the heart of a bustling city; constant meetings, secretary following him around
- Narcissistic, kind of vain, BOSSY
-  Used to getting things his way
- "Do I look heavyish?"
- "Use your blood sugar, child!"
- Robert = VERY rich
- Doesn't worry about money (taxi)
- Goes to nice restaurants frequently
- Expensive chocolate
- Robert is a PLAYER ... a WOMANIZER
- Expensive chocolates to a girl....
- "You said that one last time...."
- VERY close to his mother! (Momma's boy!)
- He calls his mother often
- "Mother-son dates" (theatre, restaurants, etc)

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- In the beginning of the story Robert Thornhill was unknowingly mistaken for another man named George Kaplan.

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Recognition of the Disruption [Characters]

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Recognition of the Disruption [Characters]

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Thornhill begins to notice when things begin to go south ---or should I say they begin to go Northwest? --- when...

- Gangsters threaten him at gunpoint to do what they say.

- He is completely aware that things aren't right when he is being escorted to the gangster's car.
-  "Soooooo can I go back, I have some business to do with my friends back there....They'll think that I'm terribly rude for just leaving them there....."

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Thornhill to escape the gangster's car.

Attempt #1 - Shaking the door-handle, but the door is locked (tried to escape from the car)

Attempt #2 - Tries multiple times to verbally express that he is not Kaplan

Attempt #3 - He escaped from drunk driving

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After Thornhill is framed for murder, his attempts to avoid the police include....
- Disguising himself with sunglasses
- He tries to formally buy a ticket on the train to avoid officials
- Since the police catch up to him, he runs and sneaks onto the train instead
He loses the police (for now...)

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In trying to escape from the police, Thornhill...

Uses a man’s train conductor suit to disguise himself in order to escape.

In order to meet up with Kaplan, Thornhill take a bus out to the middle of nowhere to talk to him.

He then almost gets hit by a plane.

To avoid the plane, Thornhill….

Attempt #1 - Ducks to avoid the plane itself

Attempt #2 - Hides in a corn field

Attempt #3 - And finally he tries to stop a diesel truck from leaving him behind, but the plane runs into the back and explodes.

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Thornhill tries to meet up with Kaplan at a hotel and just misses him. Thornhill runs into Eve and he tells her about what happened. As Thornhill "takes a shower" Eve secretly leaves to an auction and Thornhill follows her.
As Thornhill is surrounded by enemies, in order to avoid confrontation, he...
- Tries to blend in with the crowd
- Acts stupid during the auction by giving LOWER prices than the ones already agreed on.
- He is escorted out by police
- (Luckily, though, this was all part of his plan so he could leave the building in one piece...)

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Thornhill is then told that he put Kendall in danger...in order to save her, he...
- He tries to convince the man holding her captive to let her go.

In trying to get her back, she shoots him and she escapes. Thornhill is then driven out and it turns out that he is completely fine. (They faked his death)

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After meeting up with Eve after faking his death, Thornhill realizes that Eve will be leaving the country with her husband because she is a fugitive.
On top of that, Thornhill realizes that Eve is in grave danger, as her husband and the gangsters figure out that Eve had staged Thornhill's death by using blanks.
In order to save Eve, Thornhill....
- Sneaks into Eve's house
- Drops a note for Eve to see to notify her of the danger that she is in.
- He then secretly talks to Eve in her room
- Thornhill and Eve try to escape by car
- Since their path becomes blocked, they run away and scale Mount Rushmore.
- Gangsters follow them and they struggle to stay balanced on the edge of the mountain

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The movie cleverly and smoothly (yet abruptly?) transitions from our characters struggling on the side of a mountain to them pulling each other up onto the top bunk of a bunk bed in a safe, secure train --- and it is mentioned that they are married!

Clearly, the new equilibrium of this movie would be them living a happily ever after, now married, after all the dust has settled...

So no more gangsters, no more Kaplan, just them living happily together!