Rebecca 10/13

[@kathryncorrigan9392]

I love the way, instead of focusing on Maxim's face as he's describing the final conversation, the camera mimics Rebecca's actions as though following an invisible presence. Its incredibly chilling but then, that's the genius of Hitchcock!

[@ElisabethJ.V.Beardsell]

Such a classic film , I love it. One of the best, in fact equally with Dr Zcivago. Fantastic!❤

[@Eternity29]

Read this book in high school. I bought it later, and still read it a lot. We also watched this movie in school. My teacher mentioned that the circumstances of Rebecca's death were changed for the movie, because there was a rule that a man could not murder his wife and go unpunished. So, it was changed to make it more accidental, otherwise, the movie could not have been made.

[@susannebass]

Both Olivier and Fontaine are sensational!!!!

[@africanzionflo]

I'm enthralled with this movie.

[@Muirmaiden]

@willobekid, due to the production code, Rebecca's death had to be changed to an accident, since a murderer could not go unpunished. The code was the movie moral police.

[@MusicVideosRemake]

alfred hitchcock was brilliant

[@orlando098]

Apparently they changed the account of the death of Rebecca because Hollywood had a rule that a character could not get away unpunished with deliberately killing his wife -- so here he hits her and she falls and bangs her head on something, whereas in the book he shoots her

[@crownme555]

i think that it made for a more shocking plot twist that he didnt kill rebecca. i mean i assumed he was a killer at the point where he said he put her body on the boat, which was shocking. but it was even more shocking and albiet a bit relieving to find my assumptions were wrong.

[@TheBubbleoh]

OMG Sir Laurence Olivier is sooo good! Joan Fontaine was also perfect. Their acting was surprisingly good! I always thought acting those old movies was a bit too unatural and exaggerated but no it's not :)

[@RachelG1979]

I remebering seeing this movie instantly falling in love with it so i read the book and I was BLOWN away by the fact that de Winter had actually shot Rebecca. Why leave it out? because when this movie was made a studio guidline or other stated that if a person was guilty of a crime he had to be punished and as we all know Maxim got away with it.

[@jstardude]

this movie needs to be remade

[@helefer]

1997 remake, with Charles Dance, is a very good too

[@cassanovadamsle]

"YOU DIDNT LOVE HER!YOU DIDNT LOVE HER" xD

[@Belindaa952]

Book is amazing as well it sooooooo good especially toward the end :D

[@leahblashful]

So why does Rebecca marry Maxim? For money? I just found out that Joan Fontaine's sister is Olivia De Haveland (spelling is probably wrong) from Gone with the Wind AND Lawrence's 2nd wife was Vivien Leigh from Gone with the Wind too!

[@RichardHell1959]

Colonel Julian : Old Boy network personified.

[@ChicoDiamante]

Amazing

[@DesdemonaXXdemona]

the best part love this movie and the book only wiy dosent she have a name lol

[@tornadoshot]

In the book it wasnt an accedent, he shot her through the heart

[@lshield1]

I wonder what Rebecca told Maxim, "things I wouldn't tell a living soul"? I wonder?

[@orlando098]

At that exact point in the book - where she is described as telling him shocking things about herself, we are not told exactly what these are. But it does come out a bit later that she used to keep going to London to meet up with different men etc, so it seems probably that it is her promiscuity/unfaithfulness that is being referred to; although it might have been a bit more, we can't be sure

[@magnificentmaureen]

Ahhhhhhh...that makes a lot of sense. Thank-you very much.

[@ajquioc]

This movie was amazing than "Notorious" which is also an Hitchcock movie after 6 years (1946).

[@lshield1]

Thanks!

[@rebachick94]

This is sooo twisted!

[@lordalessan]

My top 3 pick as Rebecca: 1.)Vivien Leigh (Olivier would hate his wife later years because of her bipolar disoder). 2.)Elizabeth Taylor (Ofcourse, she was only 8 at that time) 3.) Ava Gardner

[@DiamondAngel44]

Were Rebecca and Flavel having a relationship?? Is that not incestuous seeing as they're cousins?? Or are they not first cousins?

[@MrShaun42088]

you know, if she had asked more questions and stopped being so ignorantly silent, she might have avoided so much! also...in the book. Maxim Shot rebecca and killed her intentionally. I don't blame him, rebecca provoked him, and as we hear at the end, with good reason.

[@illi10nis27]

WHAT?!!! I can see Ralph Fiennes as Maxim but NO. No one can be as great as Laurence Olivier. Sigh...are we so void of creativity that we have to remake the classics??

[@MrShaun42088]

yeah... i should have read some comments first, before i post. apparently, the shot thing is very well known. yes... he's a murderer. she goes crazy in the second book Titled "Mrs. Dewinter"

[@tornadoshot]

@PengWinOne i know, i thought it was better the way it was.. i guess hitchcock felt he might turn into a antagonist if it was on purpose

[@hjb103055]

Well, now that I know how the movie ends I don't need to watch the rest of it.

[@Labryschick]

I agree.

[@orlando098]

in fact the book doesn't tell us more than the film here

[@dinasztie]

Well, IMO Laurence Olivier is great, but for me this movie is all about Joan Fontaine. Of course, to each his own.

[@juliansew]

If we HAD to remake Rebecca, I'd pick Winona Ryder as Maxims wife (with the same hair length) Ralf Fiennes as Maxim - though I wouldn't mind Johnny Depp playing this role. a young Susan Sarandon as Mrs. Danvers but nobody can compare these to the original actors in rebecca. fullstop.

[@sarmadasco]

@illi10nis27 I couldnt see Ralph Fiennes do Maxim. Max is a handomse, manly sort and Ralph, is sensitive, pretty type although like Olivier, a great actor. Brother, Joseph, tho'? I might see, today, a Clive Owen (toned down a bit for this role) or Pierce Bronson, circa 10 yrs ago. Must be British tho'. No one comes to mind. You're right that some films cannot be remade..ala 'Wizard of Oz", GWTW, "It's a Wonderul Life" ++. A new Sistine would be unthinkable or new Pyramid, as are some films.

[@amazinglyace]

Oh dear god no. That is a truly awful piece of news.

[@fenxian1]

What a pity! why part 10 not available?

[@lordalessan]

@LexiixoxRoxx Umm Lexi, you gotta clue me in on this. If I made a comment like that, it must've been a long time ago because I can no longer remember what I said. After watching a documentary on Vivien Leigh and reading a biography on Laurence Olivier, I know that he did not hate his wife. However, he did grow tired of her fits of rage (due to her bipolar disorder) and affairs with Peter Finch and John Merrivale (who eventually became her companion).

[@racris7]

@TheHolidayShow1 maybe in the movie, but in the book her name is not mentioned

[@zenith0000006]

whoah really 4:00-4:40 is the creepiest ever! watching it at 2am is really a bad idea!

[@maidmoira]

read pages 262 forward, it is all there,

[@humansRpepul2]

With the musical coming to Broadway, I could see a remake if it picks up and renews interest. It all has to do with how much they do beyond translation...I still think Tanz der Vampire would have been so much more popular without the "Americanization" they tried to do. DeWinter's wife could be Diane Kruger; they look almost identical to me.

[@SallieSimpson]

All it really does is make him look like an idiot because he made himself look guilty when he did nothing wrong.

[@Rosebud04]

Read the book.

[@Nicecatholicgirl]

I think she might have been gay or bi, or possibly into something with her cousin Favell.

[@SallieSimpson]

Ugh...I was really impressed with the movie up to this point but it's lame that they changed this part. I guess they wanted to make Maxim more sympathetic.

[@leedsman5881]

It was because of the Hays code, he couldn't appear to have got away with murder

[@HereORNowTODAY]

OMG

[@msminiver93]

@oldfshndandlovnit The author of the book never gave her a name.

[@EchoLanding]

in the book, maxim shot rebecca...no tripping involved.

[@504Diva]

@Chikalita,,,What poor taste you have.

[@ajquioc]

Yes, sometimes remakes SUCKS!! But Liam Neeson would be slight better than Ralph Fiennes.

[@SisterToSleepx]

This is probably the least boring part of this movie.

[@sarmadasco]

I am not in any way a fan of Joan Fontaine, (love sister Olivia), she was well cast here. The original idea of the Olivier/Vivien Liegh "Rebecca" would have been disaster. I love Leigh, but she was a cyclone of power, even as Blanche Dubois in 'Streetcar', as a bipolar, former belle. She could never have the demure, plain, starry eyed naivete` that the nameless Mrs DeWinter, needs tho' she could have been Rebecca, from what we know of her. Leigh could just stand silent and still be amazing.

[@hysope5]

not as great as Jeremy Brett....

[@Chikalita2]

what a boring movie