VERTIGO synopsis

The screenplay for Vertigo was based on the French novel D'Entre les Morts, translated means From Among the Dead. The two French mystery writers, Narcejac and Boileau, also wrote Les Diaboliques, which Hitchcock wanted but lost to French director Clouzot. Paramount purchased the right to D'Entre les Morts before the book was even translated so Hitchcock could do the movie.
Hitchcock rejected the first screenplay adaption. The second writer, Alec Coppel's screenplay did not please Hitchcock either. The third writer, Samuel Taylor's version was accepted.
Conflict arose when writer Samuel Taylor wanted sole writer's credit. Taylor claimed that he did not read the French novel or Coppel's screenplay but wrote his screenplay solely from what Hitchcock had told him. Taylor had added a new character, Midge, who wasn't in the novel. Taylor also made the atypical choice not to have the major plot twist revealed at the end, but two-thirds of the way through. The reason for this can be found in Hitchcock’s description differentiating suspense from surprise in the François Truffaut interview.
Alec Coppel took his complaint to the Writer's Guild. After examining the two screenplays the Guild decided that Coppel and Taylor both deserved screen credit.

[@emilynightingale7758]

wow, that was depressing...

[@mertpresents]

Amazing work 💯

[@jonathanjoel4491]

that last line was bomb

[@diaryofdaksha]

Thanks so much

[@brightsizelife1]

This idea of the delusional ego having a predatory nature, which is yet represented to ourselves as a victim, is very interesting. Would you mind pointing to the psychologist/thinker responsible for this view, or is it your own idea? Thank you!

[@Ursaminor31]

Why there be no guard rails on that tower.

[@englishexperts1974]

in that time there werent even electricity

[@willberry6434]

@@englishexperts1974 huh? This is 1950’s LOL

[@artisan2287]

Because it was written by writer in the film plot that there shall be no railing😂😁

[@pattigee1]

Didn't like Stewart's role, vertigo wasn't his only problem, he was sick, twisted and chavinistic the way he had her remade in his ideal image of her..

[@RobTangren]

I don't know if you've ever thought about this question, but what you have just summed up, I believe, is the reason moviegoers originally rejected this movie. Neither of the two main characters were sympathetic; they both had flaws that were baffling and disturbing. The plot was an intricate puzzle, more complicated than it needed to be for a man to murder his wife, obviously designed to intrigue the audience not be a practical scheme-so why do the Brits think this movie is all-time number one? That's the real mystery.

[@happierabroad]

have you ever been madly in love? probably not. if you have, you'd know that being madly in love makes you that way.

[@RobTangren]

@@happierabroad Yes, twice, but never so mad as to forgive murder and duplicity for financial gain. Although I do recognize that love is a beautiful feeling that enables one to ignore numerous faults. I love movies but many are not depictions of reality. Take 'Bonnie and Clyde" just two misguided lovers off on an adventure with a tragic end. As opposed to a couple of psychologically twisted murderers who shared the same passionate hatred toward the society they felt betrayed them. Some would say just two points of view, unless of course you were a victim of their psychopathy, then the truth can no longer be hidden by the romantic imagination.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

You can't always have an actor play the good, the good, the good, you've also got "The good the bad and the ugly" (Sergio Leone movies, where, for instance , Henri Fonda, who had such a positive image, in "ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST", while he's a killer and because his buddy says his first name, "Franck" in front of the little boy not yet slaughtered, kills instantaneously the kid ! That's not a reason why Fonda would have lost his positive image of a whole cinematic life! Idem for Jimmy Stewart ! You can't play stereotypes forever and THAT WAS HIRCHCOCK GENIUS !

[@Fanfanbalibar]

@@RobTangren BECAUSE THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CANNOT UNDERSTAND STORIES HIGHER THAN THE LEVEL OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND OR THE WIZARD OF OZ !!!!!!!!!

[@freebeerforlosers]

The recap was fine but the interpretation at the end with cations were a bit contrived.

[@RobTangren]

I would be interested to know what you mean by contrived. Jimmy Stewart's character was hired to protect another man's wife but pursued her even though she exhibited signs of emotional illness. The Kim Novak character was complicit in first-degree murder and lied to Stewart's character repeatedly. Both obviously had predatory natures, yet they maintained a pretense of normalcy as to elicit sympathy. There are people like this, I've met them; they become trapped in their own web. This is why honesty should be practiced, not just because it is a virtue, but it is a practical way to protect yourself from self-delusion.