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Description of this Vertigo Film Poster
Vertigo is an American psychological thriller and noir film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, released in 1958. The film's screenplay is based on the novel From Among the Dead written in 1954 by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac1 , and was adapted by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor8. 1 and was adapted by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.8
The lead actor, James Stewart, plays private detective John "Scottie" Ferguson who, after suffering an accident that forces him into early retirement and causes acrophobia and vertigo, is hired by an old friend, Galvin Elster (Tom Helmore), to discreetly monitor his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving erratically and appears to be possessed by a spirit. The film is about obsession, psychological and physical paralysis, and the fragile nature of love.9
The film was shot in San Francisco, California, and at the studios of Paramount Pictures, Hollywood.10 It was the first film to use compensated tracking, a perspective-distorting camera effect that was used in the film to create disorientation and convey Scottie's acrophobia to the viewer.11 Due to its use in the film, the effect is often referred to as the "vertigo effect".11
The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1958. Although it got off to an inauspicious start, with lukewarm reviews and a poor box office reception, it gained popularity with time and is today considered a classic of Hitchcock's filmography, as well as one of the greatest films of all time12. 13 After a 10-year evaluation, Vertigo was voted the greatest film of all time on August 2, 2012, ahead of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.14 It was nominated for two Academy Awards and topped the Top 10 of the AFI in the category “Mystery Films”15.
In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.16 A restored version of the film was released in 1996.
After a chase across a rooftop in which his police partner falls to his death, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) retires early and begins suffering from acrophobia and vertigo. Scottie tries to overcome his fear with his own method, but his friend and former fiancée, underwear designer Marjorie "Midge" Wood (Barbara Bel Geddes), says only another severe emotional shock could cure Scottie of his ills. .
Later, Gavin Elster, a former college friend of Scottie, asks him to follow his wife, Madeleine, under the pretext that she is not doing well psychologically and could put her in danger. Scottie accepts, not happy, and follows Madeleine all over San Francisco for a day. He follows her to a florist where Madeleine buys a bouquet of flowers, to the parish of Mission Dolores, to the grave of a certain Carlotta Valdes and to the art museum of the Legion of Honor, where Madeleine contemplates the portrait of Carlotta Valdes. Finally, Scottie sees her entering the McKittrick Hotel, but when he tries to investigate further and find her, Madeleine does not appear to have entered.
During his investigation, a local historian explains to Scottie that Carlotta Valdes committed suicide: she had been the mistress of a rich man, whom she married and by whom she had a daughter, but after a while, the couple separated, taking the child with them. So Carlotta went crazy and ended up committing suicide. When Scottie informs Gavin of the investigation, the latter reveals that Carlotta (whom he fears possesses Madeleine) is Madeleine's great-grandmother, although the latter knows nothing of this and has no remembering the places she visited. Scottie follows Madeleine to Fort Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge, and when she jumps into the bay, he saves her.
After Madeleine spends the night at Scottie's apartment after being rescued, they spend the next day together. They travel throughout San Francisco until they reach a bay, where Madeleine flows into the ocean. Scottie grabs him and they kiss. The next day, Madeleine tells him about a nightmare, which Scottie links to the Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Carlotta's childhood home. He takes her there and they tell each other that they love each other. Madeleine suddenly runs towards the church and climbs the bell tower. Scottie, unable to climb the steps because of his acrophobia, sees Madeleine throw herself from the bell tower, committing suicide.
Madeleine's death is ruled a suicide. Gavin does not blame Scottie, but the latter becomes clinically depressed and enters a sanatorium, in a near catatonic state. After his release, Scottie haunts the places he visited with Madeleine, often imagining that he sees her. One day, he thinks he identifies Madeleine in a woman who reminds him of her, despite her different appearance. Scottie follows her and she identifies herself as Judy Barton, from Salina, Kansas.
In a flashback, it is revealed that Judy was the person Scottie knew as "Madeleine Elster". Judy posed as Gavin's wife as part of an assassination plot whose victim was the real Madeleine. Judy writes a letter to Scottie to explain her involvement in the murder: Gavin had deliberately taken advantage of Scottie's acrophobia so that, when Judy went up to the bell tower, he would substitute his wife's freshly murdered body for Madeleine's apparent "suicide". However, Judy tears up the letter and continues the charade because she truly loves Scottie.
After starting to see Judy, Scottie is still obsessed with "Madeleine", so he asks Judy to change her clothes and hair to look like Madeleine. After Judy complies, in the hope that they can finally find happiness together, he realizes that Judy is wearing the necklace depicted in Carlotta's painting and realizes the truth and that Judy was Elster's mistress before from being sidelined as Carlotta, to being part of the plot to assassinate the real Madeleine. So, Scottie insists on taking Judy to St. John the Baptist.
There, Scottie tells Judy that he must piece together the event that led to his madness, admitting that he now understands that "Madeleine" and Judy are the same person. Scottie forces her into the bell tower and makes her confess to her deception. Scottie reaches the top, conquering and finally overcoming his vertigo and acrophobia. Judy admits that Gavin paid her to pretend to be a "possessed" Madeleine and that he faked the suicide of the real Madeleine by throwing his wife's body from the top of the bell tower. Judy begs Scottie to forgive her because she loves him. He kisses her, but a figure hidden in the shadows emerges from the trap door of the tower, startling Judy, who takes a step back and falls into the void. Scottie, once again overcome by grief, stands on the ledge while the figure, a nun who was investigating the noises, rings the bell in the steeple.
