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Narrative Themes: How do men in the film treat women? How do they respond? Would you accept similar relationships in contemporary film? Why or why not?

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Narrative Themes: How do men in the film treat women? How do they respond? Would you accept similar relationships in contemporary film? Why or why not?

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Scottie, in Vertigo, seems to be in love with Madeline. He is absolutely infatuated with her and follows her everywhere - every time Scottie sees who he perceives as Madeline the audience are expected to think that he is falling in love with her. But is he? It's debatable whether Scottie is actually in love with Madeline or wants something different and exciting. The way he acts when all is revealed about Judy filling Madeline's shoes suggests that Scottie is more obsessed with Madeline's character than in love with her. Within his manipulative and controlling behavior to gain masculine status with both "Madeline" and Judy, Scottie is looking for a chase rather than a committed partner -- in which Midge would fit the role perfectly.

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How does Hitchcock portray women in this film?

Just as Scottie appears to be obsessed with controlling the way Judy is presented, the director Alfred Hitchcock also seems to be obsessed with controlling the women in his work. He frequently portrays his actresses in similar aesthetic ways such as aspects like blonde hair which is seen from Madeline.

It is known that Hitchcock dealt with a difficult relationship with his mother, suffering from much neglection which is why the character of Midge is presented in such a motherly way. She acts for Scottie as what Hitchcock never had, as a blanket of warmth and familiarity; a support system essentially. Although, this aspect acts as a barrier in which it limits Scottie and Midge's relationship to solely friends, preventing Scottie from ever seeing her in a romantic light.

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what Is love? scientifically it is a chemical connection between two beings that forms a state of harmony

what is obsession? An idea or thought that preoccupies a persons minds

what behaviours characterised each?
scotties character constantly switches in and out of the idea of love and opession. as a viewer it is difficult to decipher weather scottie love Madeline or if he is opssessed with her. on the one hand he is shown to have love for her because he admits to her he loves her and asks her to marry him in the barn but is what he is feeling love or is he obsessed because when she dies he has a psychological break down and then abuses Judy into being just like madiln with show us that he is obsessed with Madeline (not finished all over the place)

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What is love? In Vertigo it seems that the themes of Love and Obsession become blurred. Scottie believes he was so "in love" with Madeline that he tries to transform Judy into Madeline to make a copy of her when really love should be defined on their personality. Furthermore, this "love" that Scottie believes he is showing to Judy in today's modern world

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What events constitute the EXPOSITION of Vertigo, in my opinion?
What events constitute the EXPOSITION of Vertigo, in my opinion?
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Narrative and Narration
Narrative and Narration
What scene or moment in the film was restricted in its narration? 


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What events constitute the EXPOSITION of Vertigo, in my opinion?

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What events constitute the EXPOSITION of Vertigo, in my opinion?

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The symbolism used throughout the film such as the spiral. It's shown in madeleines hair and later in judy's hair when Scottie attempts to turn her into Madeline. It's also in the opening credits and the spiral staircase is what leads madeline to her fate and Scottie to his downfall. He then becomes the antagonist.

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What scene or moment in the film was restricted in its narration?

In Vertigo an example of restricted narration in the movie are the montages of Scottie following Judy to the flower shop and other locations. This is restricted narration as we learn as much as the actors do in the movie. Examples of shots used in restricted narration are p.o.v shots as we are in place of the actor and by this shot it acts as a barrier mechanism as we don't get a wider shot which would provide us with more knowledge. Claustrophobic and impenetrable shots as it makes the audience feel closer with the actors.

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Audience members cannot help but fall in love with the way Vertigo comes away from traditional narrative structure and I was no different. Within Todorov's narrative theory, the equilibrium, dis-equilibrium and new equilibrium are hard to identify, which blends perfectly within the themes of identity, individualism and masculinity. Vertigo was a film beyond its years, discovering parts of postmodernism elements within its different structure and themes. It explores Hitchcock's style as an auteur and how parts of the narrative with the running themes of Vertigo, all together flip film expectations from the 1950s.

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for me the idea of obsession features mainly in the last half of the film. The theme is at its most relevant when scotty is attempting to make the character Judy look like his vision of Madeline.
scotty convinces himself that he just wants a few things to be different and he acts as if he is just trying to be nice by getting Judy a new dress or doing her hair however we as an audience can see that scotty is doing this as he isn't over Madeline and he is obsessed with her.

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In what way does vertigo fit the narrative theory of propp?

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In what way does vertigo fit the narrative theory of propp?

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Vladamir Propp's theory that each character is written to a set role in the narrative, e.g Scottie would be the protagonist and Gavin Elster would be the Villain

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In what ways does 'Vertigo' fit the narrative theory of Levi-Strauss

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In what ways does 'Vertigo' fit the narrative theory of Levi-Strauss

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Uses Binary opposites- woman vs man and death vs life.

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Narrative Structure: Is the film a non-linear narrative?

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Narrative Structure: Is the film a non-linear narrative?

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I think Vertigo is a non-linear narrative to an extent as a non-linear narrative includes flash backs, flash forwards and the events are told out of chronological order. The movie rarely  does have flashbacks it doesn't really include flash forwards and the events seem to be told in chronological order.

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narrative theory: in what ways does 'vertigo' fit the narrative theory of Propp?

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narrative theory: in what ways does 'vertigo' fit the narrative theory of Propp?

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scottie = hero
madiline = damsile / princess
Judy = trickster
madilines husband = villain
Madge  = helper

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Hitchcock's use of narrative techniques to increase suspense and tension. He used restricted narration for the majority of the film until finally revealing to the nspectator through omniscient narration that the Madeline scotty fell in love with, was really Judy and still alive.

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How does the idea of obsession feature in this film?

As the film Vertigo progresses, the theme of obsession plays an increasingly immense roll which is displayed clearly though the character of Scottie.

Scottie demonstrates the idea of there being a fine line between love and obsession when he falls in love with "Madeline". As the scenes escalate, Scottie soon becomes obsessed with the thought of her, so much that he begins to manipulate and alter Judy's entire persona until he is satisfied. He is no longer considerate or understanding of Judy's emotions, completely gliding past every word she speaks. At this point, it is clear that Scottie is no longer in love.

Madeline reciprocates this as she begins to become obsessed with Scottie's love, allowing herself to be controlled in order to have his attention. Eventually, so much so that she no longer cares about who she is anymore as long as she can just be Scotties.

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In vertigo like most films curtain characters are set to fill curtain roles.
For example Madeline is the classic 'fem fatal' and midge is set to alike to  mentor or mother figure for scotty.

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What scene or moment in the film was restricted in it's narration?

The scenes in which Scottie has been set the task of following Madeline by Gavin Elster, is in my opinion where restricted narration is first present. This is due to us only being able to see the plot from Scotties point of view, creating enigma codes, of where Madeline is going and why.

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What events constitute the resolution of Vertigo, in your opinion?

In my opinion, the resolution of Vertigo comes when Scottie and Judy are repeating the events of Madeline's "death". Scottie truly believes that he can conquer his condition and replay the events in the way that he believes should have happened. In reality, the same fate happens once more and he is left with another death on his hands due to his vertigo.

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What events constitute the exposition of Vertigo?

The scene of Scottie chasing the criminal with the Police officer at the start tells the audience the back story that he is a detective and he on the side of the law. This sets off for the rest of the film of him attempting to find out what is going on with 'Madeline'

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Vertigo fits the campbell theory which suggests that all film follow  the hero journey
Scottie is sent to do a task by the dispatcher and we follow his journey where he meets other characters that are identified in the Campbell theory