Vertigo - Scene d'Amour

[@MuhamadMondi-gc9vu]

This scene is one of the most well-made scenes in movie history.

[@arthurgames9610]

Yes, it is...

[@aminjaguar1]

Love dies over time, whether through separation or even when two people reunite

[@ronaldfelix1850]

That sound track is amazing.

[@dldbug6942]

The great Bernard Herman wrote this score.

[@android82synthwave]

The more and more I watch this movie, the higher and higher James' performance creeps to the top of my all time list. It's impossible for someone to portray falling it love, watching her die, the depression, the obsession, and the dream of her coming to life again so perfectly without actually being Scottie, isn't it? It's too good.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Well, you did say, "creeps."

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

I don't think Scottie ever falls in love except with the imaginative ideal that he's created in his mind. That falling in love with the ideal is what leads to his obsession when the real thing doesn't match his ideal, so he tries to remake reality into his ideal and just ends up suffering more.

[@maryclaremayo6157]

@@jonathanhenderson9422 Pygmalion.

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

@@maryclaremayo6157 Perhaps an indirect influence, but Scotty's obsession comes from a very different source given that Madeleine was a fictional character being portrayed by a real woman, and he rejects the real woman for the fantasy. Pygmalion is more about an artist falling in love with their own creation, but Vertigo is as much a story about a normal guy falling in love with the ideals that artists sell to audiences. Hitch plays on this too since the audience starts out as intrigued as Scotty, and only comes to see his obsession delusion after Judy reveals the truth.

[@maryclaremayo6157]

@@jonathanhenderson9422 Yes, I just threw that in because reading the comments just now, it occurred to me that it was a take on the Pygmalion tale. And funnily enough, Vertigo is listed in the Wikipedia article on Pygmalion.

[@pablojuega3312]

Vertigo is an sublime obssesion...infinite

[@mkfloyd9131]

Hitchcock has a way of framing his scenes like no one else, excellent.........

[@KevyNova]

I can’t imagine being someone who’s never seen the film and watching this lone scene on KZbin. It wouldn’t make any sense. But when you watch the movie for the first time, this scene is breathtaking. When you watch the movie for a second time, knowing how it ends, this scene will have you ugly crying!

[@maryclaremayo6157]

It's heartbreaking.

[@bighands69]

I have seen the film in 70mm and it is the most amazing looking film ever. You cannot actually appreciate the last scene until you have seen it on a 70mm screening.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

@@bighands69 I saw it in 71mm. Even better.

[@VictorMartinez82]

That's literally me right now. I found the soundtrack before anything else cause of a Hollywood graveyard video that showed Bernard's grave. Still haven't seen the film.

[@paulmaldonado5157]

Wow, I’m going to watch the movie tonight.

[@madhatterster]

The word "breathtaking" gets used a lot, but I literally had my breath taken away watching this scene for the first time. It's some of the best cinema I've ever seen.

[@Pentax33]

Throughout the movie, the notes in the music are always quickly ascending and descending to create that "spinning" illusion (hence the feeling of "vertigo", listen especially in the main theme). Only in this part of the score does this "spinning" effect result in rising notes in the music, rather than falling. That's because usually, the mystery of the movie is going in a downward spiral, but the love between the two main characters is rising like something never felt before. Or maybe I'm overanalyzing this idk.

[@MRGI0RGI0]

no you're not overanalyzing this! that is exactly what this music is doing, it is composed in crescendo ! look at 2:23 ! it's ascending as she is walking towards him! that's what i call real film scoring ! it makes sens! nowadays a very few film scores are actually trying to add sens and ideas to the film (sorry if my english is wrong here, i'm french^^)

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Yes, it contributes to the hypnotic effect of the movie to the extent that one overlooks the plot, which on its surface is pretty absurd.

[@michaelwu7678]

Yes the music is paying an homage to the music of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which explores similar themes.

[@nelzzo8249]

Bernard Herrmann is a truly genius

[@laurahughes6915]

The score is what lingers in the memory. Long after you've watched this movie you feel so conflicted in your deep empathy for Scottie & his love. Nobody is innocent, nobody is pure: just fallible, flesh & blood creatures who want to feel loved. The music cements that. Great filmmaking.

[@marilyndeservedbetter]

they were not acting in this scene..they were giving their souls for it... truly a MASTERPIECE that must be studied.

[@danielfebrizio9033]

One of the greatest shots ever

[@bautibonzini2835]

2:44 best look in the eyes I've ever seen. You can see every single bit of his pain in them, in the smile. This is a man banally filling a void through an obsession and he doesn't even notice the pain he's inflicting on the people around him nor in himself, thus carrying on with it. How does someone even get into character for this, lol.

[@gio_ser5120]

Best acting, music, scenery, atmosphere in music history. This movie wouldn’t be the same without these to magnificent actors

[@Joeldcn]

best scene of greatest movie all time

[@cinedeautor6642]

Indeed,

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Yes, I always love a romance where the heroine dies. Twice. And is harrassed & stalked by the male lead the rest of the time. When he's not abusing the 2nd female lead & making her feel like 💩 about herself.

[@Joeldcn]

@@unowen-nh9ov Dont worry, you got a full collection of politically correct, feminist and racial diversity in Netflix. This good old cinema its not for your taste.

[@DoctorWu23]

@@unowen-nh9ov I dont think the movie goes out of its way to make Jimmy Stewart an angel, he's clearly depicted as being severely mentally ill and how he forces her to become a literal phantom is not made out to be romantic but deranged and twisted. She is no angel either of course, she assisted in the premeditated slaughter of a mans wife he literally keeps stowed away in the countryside. I believe its actually a feminist film in some sense.

[@joaquinmombergbarria516]

Agreed

[@NDHFilms]

I think Steven Spielberg said you can listen to the music in this scene without the images, but you could never watch this scene without the music.

[@4Topwood]

I do that. I'll put on the score to Vertigo and see the movie in my mind's eye as I wander around the house. But try watching Vertigo (or Psycho) with the sound off.

[@heelydevil4251]

best scene in the entirety of cinema. no doubt about it

[@bodeans59]

What an incredible movie! One of Hitchcock's best films...

[@LJ-wm1bl]

Unpopular opinion but this is the greatest love story (not in terms of happiness)

[@bighands69]

Half a love story or how should I put it an unrequited love story.

[@JakeSmith-rv1hm]

It's the most perverted love story. Not a judgement though, as art can cover any topic.

[@heelydevil4251]

the greatest scene in all of cinema

[@TheNoMan23]

I almost got sobbed thanks to the score in this particular scene.

[@tomhiggins7644]

One of my favorite parts is when the hotel room turns into the bell-tower as they kiss.

[@XxElCapxX]

Bell tower's stable*

[@Fer_GS]

Amazing scene, music, Stewart & Novak performances, and the movie overall. A piece of art.

[@comradebeandip]

I love this scene so much

[@ivomiguelbarroso]

An amazing and genious HITCHCOCK's direction. And also an incredible performance by KIM NOVAK, doing the part of Judy, with Madeleine's cloths and blond hair. The movie could stop right here, and it would be a great ending scene.

[@skylordsrebornpvpreplays5795]

He needs to find out what happend tho

[@giusypollina7915]

Magnifica scena ,perfetta ,emozionante per chi è entrato nella trama altamente drammatica ,in cui L'Amore dei protagonisti è evidente e il loro ritrovarsi in quel momento Quanto diverse le verità che s'incrociano e s'intrecciano nel loro nuovo bellissimo sentimento . Un sogno che tragicamente e l'appassionante musica nelle sue drammatiche note finali lo sottolinea ,non si potrà mai concludere come ora vorrebbero .😊

[@pablojuega3312]

Amigo, Argento y el Giallo también nacen ahi❤

[@MustafaJackson]

Alfred Hitchcock was a Master.

[@remonholubek8123]

Bernard Herrmann to

[@viennaferguson2341]

He really was. I cant stop being absolutely FASCINATED by the whole movie...

[@mustafajackson9430]

@@remonholubek8123 Very true.

[@vanpelt2321]

Like the several minutes of silence before the crop duster appears in "North by Northwest" and the mundane nothingness of undressing before a simple shower in "Psycho", Scotty's silent anguish, mounting sexual tension and angst before Madeleine/Judy appears in the neon nimbus is sublime and pure cinema. No director filled emotional negative space so powerfully and eloquently as Hitchcock.

[@enkiduudikne]

Without Bernard Herrmann, an OK scene. With that score, one of the greatest scenes ever filmed.

[@wordshock]

You do not know what you’re talking about.

[@georgevalley1319]

This is still a very powerful scene in context. Scottie finally forms her in the image he desires. The score just emphasizes the emotion.

[@4Topwood]

Without the score, it would have been an arresting scene, one noted by film critcs. With the score, it's an unforgettable scene that continues to move audiences sixty years after the film was released. Herrmann was a genius of astonishing depth and range.

[@nel1962]

Ann Edwards well said.

[@trancosomarcus]

@@wordshock He knows! Herrmann is amazing! Withou his music this scene was what?

[@remonholubek8123]

Nothing against Hitchkock but in my opinion is the music the best of this scene

[@DHGlee2013]

ThenewBuddyRichATM I completely agree. I especially love how the music/theme has much more of an impact when it views Novak in this scene.

[@kikofernandez8165]

the music is great...but the cinematografy....what gives that touch of dreaming,of course ALL supervised by Hitchcock( If he had not liked music and photography, this scene would not have been like that,remember that he had the last word ... or Alma ...)

[@oscarcarr7985]

Idk the music is amazing but so is the cinematography

[@android82synthwave]

It's everything about this scene. We can't discount the emotional release Stewart exudes through his expressions. He finally got Madeline back. He might have lost his mind along the way, but it doesn't matter. He has the love of his life.

[@iquelanga1524]

I just watched this scene without sound and was still moving

[@MT-wc1wz]

これ程美しくて悲しくて禍々しいシーン、他で見た事ない。 唯一無二。

[@sebastianbelluschi2666]

Para mí, la escena más poderosa de la historia del cine

[@pablojuega3312]

Y para mi....Vertigo es infinita

[@Canucklehead1234]

3:11 is a brilliant moment in the film showing how powerful emotions can be, the last place Scottie and Madeleine (Judy) kissed prior to Judy's transformation.

[@isthme8103]

Where did they kiss again?

[@Canucklehead1234]

@@isthme8103 the stables

[@jakecevallos495]

Goodness...this scene is so poignant and powerful. The way Scottie reaches for her hair with such desperation, the soft anguish in his voice. And she, a mixture of pain, anger, love, resignation; the way she bows her head and sighs, completely submitting to the illusion. He paces the room with such brooding anxiety, the music fraught with such brilliant anticipation. And finally, he slowly turns and rises, the look in Jimmy Stewart's eyes says more than a thousand words, while the music reaches its dazzling crescendo. She, emerging from the bathroom like an eidolon, bathed in the eerie, striking green haze - Madeleine resurrected! - and the look of love and longing on her face, while his exudes such burning desire and catharsis. The way the camera encircles them on their passionate embrace as fantasy meets reality, the score enrapturing the whole thing. This movie gets better and better with each viewing. It's like being hypnotized. Anyone interested in film-making, acting, etc. must consider this essential viewing!

[@matthiasreisinger5516]

The way, how the music is used at this movie, is like a Wagner opera. I am quite sure Hitchcock was inspired by "Tristan und Isolde".

[@pablojuega3312]

Yes...the ritornello, death, sex, romanticism....

[@evanilledelarge]

I think I can hear the Tristan cord in this scene

[@FabinhoFlapp]

Perfection in motion picture! 🍾💫

[@DonNeuhauser-w8f]

She is, She's Tadrina. Oh My God! Love, Don xoxo

[@samburnscomposer]

Hitchcock and Herrmann what a team!

[@tristano1984]

2:00 to 2:15. If an alien asks me "what is cinema?" I would show him this 15 seconds.

[@theoassikos170]

breath taking scene

[@maryclaremayo6157]

Jimmy Stewart's most disturbing character role. A man so obsessed and objectifying a woman who does not exist, and incapable of seeing the two real women who are deeply in love with him.

[@bighands69]

He has played some dark characters in his time but the atmosphere of that film is something else.

[@tomsdottir]

I often wonder why people refer to it as being a love story. Guy's a creep.

[@maryclaremayo6157]

@@tomsdottir That's so true. And to have Jimmy Stewart play that role - Mr. Everyman, sweet friendly guy, the Tom Hanks of his day - makes it ever more creepy.

[@michaeljmobley]

@@maryclaremayo6157 much respect for Jimmy to take a role like this. It's what solidified him as being one of the best actors who ever lived.

[@LightYagami-xl1wz]

@@tomsdottir In my opinion, Scottie is more so traumatized from both watching a cop and a woman fall to their death and not being able to do anything about it. The fear and guilt fucked him up a lot. Sure, he is a bit creepy but you can’t entirely blame him. He lost someone very dear to him, even if she didn’t really exist, and on top of that, he blamed himself because he couldn’t “save” her in time. The grief that he felt overcame him and became an obsession, and he used Judy to cope with his trauma. Though then again, Judy was using him too, so both sides are in the wrong. I never thought of Vertigo as a pure horror or love story but rather a tragedy.

[@spartybob1]

The music makes it work

[@rainbowroadthekilljoy8]

In watching Nurse Ratched the music always seems to remind me of this film.

[@incognitotees]

Hitchcock gets all the credit but let's be real. Bernard Herrmann created a masterpiece that enhanced this scene to it's max

[@Loulou-sr3tk]

Kim Novak, quelle beauté: cette scène n'a nullement besoin de sexe ou nudité: elle est probablement une des scènes les plus sensuelles ds l'histoire du cinéma.

[@joeyrivera576]

Kim Novak!! ❤️

[@Cpt163]

Hitchcock was a total genius.

[@mustaphabacha8487]

Amazing ! Great ! Once upon a time true moovies

[@superzocki4433]

1:22 these tremolos are incredible

[@Waddehaddeduddedaa]

Hey it's the Liebestod!

[@sujoy1990]

The greatest movie I have ever seen

[@bighands69]

Most certainly one of the best. Rear window and Ben-Hur are amazing as well.

the best scene ever!

[@TonyG_Film]

As much as I love Hitchcock, I love Bernard Herrmann even more. This scene is powerful and emotional but it’s nothing without the music. Nothing.

[@isthme8103]

Why dividing between the two. It's an ensemble, take as an ensemble. It's WHOLEsome

[@横山拓也-b4z]

I think this intoxicating music was inspired from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

[@travis07ful]

Sure

[@pablojuega3312]

Indeed

[@recetasfaciles2816]

Increíble película, grande Hitchcock 👏👏👏

[@digocpm]

Amazing

[@85thNintendoSwitchOwner]

+Caio Rodrigo Yes, yes it is.

[@MG-fh4ed]

Tristan und Isolde

[@ethaniel81]

I am glad, that i am not The only one. Yes, me too remindes it Wagners prelude of Tristan und Isolde.

[@aporeticphilosophy8048]

Yes!! When she exits the bathroom (?) that climax reminded of Tristan ;)

[@oliviervors1512]

Absolutely , Bernard Hermann was Richard Wagner..

[@jackiebryant9060]

Jimmy Stewart's character shows he has talent and is not a Hollywood robot.

[@atoz8760]

What a scene.!! This movie👍👍👍

[@jeffe5874]

so romantically creepy

[@cattyelse2372]

well we always want people to be what they are not

[@Dean21219]

The music made this movie.

[@sfnoxx7449]

para los que les gustó, les recomiendo Mas alla del olvido 1956

[@Alexander-tj2dn]

Bernard Herrman´s awesome music was 50% of Hitchcock´s talent.

[@pablojuega3312]

Lo sublime y lo siniestro en un film

[@joestewart8914]

The desk clerk/owner at the McKittrick Hotel was paid to lie? She certainly was good at it. How about the guy at the Argosy Bookstore? He knew who Carlotta was. Or was he lying too? Midge took Scotty to him.

[@DonNeuhauser-w8f]

Tad. Is she Tadrina? Oh My God?! Love, Don xoxo

[@arthurgames9610]

It was actually her....

[@jeanetteadamo9039]

Happy Hitchcock Day

[@michaeldeguzman3852]

anyone here after the substance lol

[@luisfgapo4691]

¡Here! The soundtrack played in the movie, right?

[@andrelissiman]

0:43 "...I told you that, I told *you* that." Is he reminding himself which "you" he's talking to..?

[@arriflex]

I went what Scottie went thru, so I can understand how he felt

[@bergerecossais]

Looks like a frame rate glitch here throughout this clip - maybe worth checking your conversion rates

[@DonNeuhauser-w8f]

That's you Tad, you coward, after I have my way with you! Love, Don xoxo

[@aabl3223]

Arthur Danto was here jj

[@Morrphinne]

a bit like the bathroom scene in shining...

[@giorgigudadze7110]

უზენავესი ! :)

[@MrMucciacito]

Quando Nicoula prima di vederci mi facevo bello bello per te

[@Terry-te1ij]

The real Madeleine is seen, dead, in Elster's arms during Judy's fladhback.

[@pablojuega3312]

Pigmalion, en fin , referencias infinitas

[@MrMucciacito]

Buongiorno Nicoula il ragazzo che vorresti a tuo piacimento

[@pablojuega3312]

Buñuel y Hitchcock y Powell la triada enferma y perfecta...fetichismo romantico

[@SiempreJulio]

... Madeleine ...

[@luisrojas3173]

Imma keep it a buck. Hitchcock ain’t shyt with out Hermann.

[@pablojuega3312]

Orfeo y Euridice

[@Dean21219]

Jimmy Stewart is way too old for this part. Rock Hudson would have been a great choice.

[@NKDV76]

I'm a Quentin & Inarratu fan but Hitch did "ok" on this - not his best scene, far from it!

[@tuberaxx]

@The Focus Mode What is Hitchcock’s best scene in your opinion?

[@bighands69]

@Randy White I love Quentin as well and if you experienced the 1990s film culture period you would love him and others to. It was the last great film era to have experienced.

[@giorgigudadze5889]