383. Notorious
Forget Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest film is Notorious. With his usual McGuffin, he wrapped a paranoid love story inside an espionage thriller about genocide.
Forget Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest film is Notorious. With his usual McGuffin, he wrapped a paranoid love story inside an espionage thriller about genocide.
Yes, Daniel Plainview is unlikable. But where is it written that characters have to be nice? They only have to be interesting.
What makes for a great opening? Character? Conflict? Poetry? Hopefully, more than something we’re supposed to just listen to.
Emily Brontë’s novel has been filmed over 25 times. Is there a line between radical interpretation and reckless desecration?
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