North by Northwest

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North by Northwest North by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock’s most creative, glamorous, suspense and comedy movie. The director alters the history of crime and suspense movies in a very precise and entertaining way. North by Northwest, his fabulous suspense movie, creates the tension of fear and anticipation in the viewers’ eyes. The mysterious and suspicious senses of the movie are created by the director’s creative use of cinematography and camera angles. This paper will analyze how the use of different camera angles and their relationship impact the understanding of specific scenes. I will focus on two scenes in the paper to point out the implication of the use of cinematography in the crop duster scene and the auction scene in North by Northwest. The movie opens by showing a daily crowded nature of the city. At the end of his working day, Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) attends a business meeting when he is kidnapped by two men in a hotel and is taken to a place where Townsend Mansion is located. Thornhill is mistaken to George Kaplan and brought to Leonard Townsend. As the movie proceeds, Thornhill attempts to find the secret of Townsend’s interest in Kaplan. Then, he goes out of the city to look for Kaplan in order to extricate the murder he accused of committing. A young, beautiful, blond girl, Eve, helps him to escape from police. The two fall in love without Thornhill’s knowledge that Eve is Townsend’s agent and seduces him to get into Townsend’s trap. Eve’s mysterious character creates a sense of suspense in viewer’s eye. When Thornhill reveals the truth of Eve as being the government’s agent who helps the government and finds the truth of Townsend and his spy organization oversea, he decides to help Eve get out of the intricacy she got in because of Thornhill. Finally, he saves her with the help of the Professor and the two supposedly get married. The

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