tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post112766058213156830..comments2024-03-29T12:59:00.612+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Hitchcock’s Strangers on a TrainJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-54165316714979382552008-10-22T01:01:00.000+05:302008-10-22T01:01:00.000+05:30Also one of the more overtly "Catholic" of Hitchco...Also one of the more overtly "Catholic" of Hitchcock's films.<BR/><BR/>The concept that thinking about a crime/wrong is the same as committing it.<BR/><BR/>There's a strong undercurrent of Catholicism running through Truffaut's book length interview that he and Chabrol did, but Truffaut never mentions it directly to Hitch for some reason.<BR/><BR/>Come to think of it, most of the Cahiers critics were Catholics who were quick to spot these themes in auteurs who had the "background" - Lang, Hitchcock, Ford in the 60's, Bresson, Bunuel, Rossellini.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11019189706120811283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1155885619410493362006-08-18T12:50:00.000+05:302006-08-18T12:50:00.000+05:30Happened to see SoaT again at our local revival ho...Happened to see SoaT again at our local revival house & decided to visit this old posting. Seeing it on the big screen for the first time reminded me what a great movie it was. This was a double bill with Rebecca, & while Rebecca had many resemblances with Vertigo (that whole obsession over dead people thing) SoaT reminded me both of Psycho (huge mansion, mother-son dynamics, interfering woman) & Rope (that gay undercurrent between Granger & Walker). On the topic of gay subtexts, author Patricia Highsmith was gay herself & her Ripley stories had a similar morally & sexually ambiguous character (best seen in the two screen adaptations of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' by Rene Clement & Anthony Minghella). Regarding the ending, I personally thought it was very fitting (& vicious). It made that gay theme even stronger. In my reading the women were all with baggages (the wife was a slut, the girlfriend a washover, her sister a gauche conspiracy theorist) & the only true love for Granger was Walker - he cared for him, looked out for him & by asking him to kill his father, implicitly wanted Granger to be his new dad (just as by killing his wife, Walker wanted to take her place). The more I see Hitch (saw To Catch A Thief, Vertigo, Notorious & these two in the last couple of weeks & all on the big screen) the more I realize why he has been my all time favorite. Subversive, misogynist, dazzling, funny, awkward - he is never boring. Even the weaker films like 'Foreign Correspondent' have a frisson. Thanks for writing about him, J-wock!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127880423539650392005-09-28T09:37:00.000+05:302005-09-28T09:37:00.000+05:30Rumman: Strangers on a Train doesn't belong in tha...Rumman: Strangers on a Train doesn't belong in that category anyway - the ones you got are among the British films from the 1930s, while Strangers... is very much Hollywood, and, speaking in a conventional sense, a maturer work (this is not to put down the British films in any way)Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127863312097559572005-09-28T04:51:00.000+05:302005-09-28T04:51:00.000+05:30Oh! If only you had posted this a week ago! This i...Oh! If only you had posted this a week ago! This is because we had been wracking our brains trying to figure which among Hitchcock's older, b&w movies should we get, as a friend of ours was kindly offering to send us some as a gift. Finally we settled on The Lady Vanishes, Young and Innocent, <BR/>Sabotage and Secret Agent. Sadly, Strangers In A Train was not among them!Tridibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18324851679164286161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127726524242377492005-09-26T14:52:00.000+05:302005-09-26T14:52:00.000+05:30Excellent piece. Thanks.Excellent piece. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127709977830335322005-09-26T10:16:00.000+05:302005-09-26T10:16:00.000+05:30Ani: done. And I’m not PG-rated alas, not after pu...Ani: done. And I’m not PG-rated alas, not after putting up a post with the heading ‘Sex and violence’ and being porn-classified by that Net-monitor!Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127709142856401672005-09-26T10:02:00.000+05:302005-09-26T10:02:00.000+05:30Hey Jai - just to let you know that beer-quiche.bl...Hey Jai - just to let you know that beer-quiche.blogspot is now a porn site (not my fault), so I've moved Tatonnement to the URL http://ex-post.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>You might want to change the link on your sidebar, otherwise you might just lose your PG rating. :)Gamesmaster G9https://www.blogger.com/profile/15328781372141149673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127707650584021522005-09-26T09:37:00.000+05:302005-09-26T09:37:00.000+05:30I remember...I remember...Straight Curveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00049208996765197308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127674329015146972005-09-26T00:22:00.000+05:302005-09-26T00:22:00.000+05:30I had sex with a 40 year old woman (I was 14) with...I had sex with a 40 year old woman (I was 14) with Strangers on the Train playing in the background. <BR/><BR/>So much to write. I could fill 5000, then 10,000, even 20,000 words; maybe all the space on the internet. Memorable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1127662758620461302005-09-25T21:09:00.000+05:302005-09-25T21:09:00.000+05:30Nice. Know what you mean about not writing about H...Nice. Know what you mean about not writing about Hitchcock, but think you should do it more!<BR/><BR/>I'm not that fond of Strangers on a Train, though - it's nice enough, but it doesn't compare, for me, with his early British work which remains my favourite. I think the principal problem I had with it was the ending - I loved the first half of the film (I specially love the bit where Guy goes over to Bruno's house at night - such a mindnumbingly taut scene that is), but the ending totally ruined it for me (gaudy is absolutely the right word for it).Falstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791162324919462038noreply@blogger.com