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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day isn’t much on rear window ethics.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a masterpiece of audience involvement. I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite of Hitch’s work, but it’s unrivaled at actually putting the audience in the shoes of the protagonist. In this case it’s a photographer with a broken leg wasting away the rest of his plaster sentence by spying on his neighbors.
The geography of the film is quite brilliantly constructed, giving Jimmy Stewart (and by extension us) just enough of a view of everything going on that when a nagging wife of a gray-haired neighbor goes missing we get just enough information that we’re not sure if she has left or been murdered.
There’s a lot more to the movie, especially with the rocky relationship between Stewart and Grace Kelly, but I’m focusing on the geography because that’s one of the great things about today’s behind the scenes photo. We get to see the set in detail, how it goes back in layers and is almost like an open playbox from the point of view of Stewart’s window.
You have all that, Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and Hitch himself in this extremely well-composed shot!
Thanks to reader James Tate for digging this one up. Click for a nice big version! Enjoy!
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic is waitin’ for us and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
-Quint
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April 11, 2011, 8:26 p.m. CST
MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT'S JIMMY DOING WITH HIS FOOT?
by BringingSexyBack
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I think I got a woody from that one. Where are the links to previous BTSPOTDs???
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If you were ever unsure of your sexuality, watch this movie. If you haven't fallen completely in love with her, you're gayer than cum on a beard...
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Probably the same thing I'd be doing, given half a chance!
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April 11, 2011, 8:48 p.m. CST
HITCH: "THAT'S A MIGHTY BIG BONER YA GOT THERE JIMMY."
by BringingSexyBack
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Was the hottest woman in Hollywood at the time but more importantly she was the epitomy of class. And a damn fine actress. Nuff said.
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Jimmy's performance. The beautiful Grace Kelly. The whole thing is just movie magic.
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April 11, 2011, 9:12 p.m. CST
From the side, Hitchcock always looked like a dove-turned-human
by Tigger Tales
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'ey!
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of Hitchcock movies lately, I believe Hitch's movies hold up extremely well. He may be my favorite director. People call Chris Nolan the new Hitch, but Nolan doesn't put half the heart into his characters as Hitchcock did. My favorite was "The Trouble with Harry."
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April 11, 2011, 10:05 p.m. CST
The bit where Grace Kelly is introduced, kissing the sleeping...........
by archer1949
Stewart is one of the most perfect scenes ever put to film
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Just amazing. Thank you, Quint!
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But somehow it never occurred to me how impressive that set was until now. And the fact that it was apparently filmed from that same angle.
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Thanks for all of these awesome BTSPs!
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I will scan it tomorrow and email it in to you - my favorite movie!
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When Raymond Burr looks up, and straight into the binoculars Stewart is looking through, and realizes everything. Then cut to abject fear on Stewart's face. That moment is one of the most brilliant and scary in any film. Beautifully done.
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Check out To Catch a Thief, with Cary Grant There's a certain strapless dress she wears in a particular scene, when she's trying to seduce Grant's character (she's got a diamond necklace on), that would have any hetero male drooling.
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Agreed, best BTS photo yet. Would love to see the color version mentioned above.
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And I WOULD say that Rear Window is my favorite Hitchcock movie!
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I remember reading in a book about the making of Psycho; Hitch was so taken with Grace Kelly (she does appear in more than one of his movies) that he was devastated when she married that prince from Monaco and left the business. After that, he was always on the lookout for his, "new Grace" I guess you could call it. Kim Hunter, Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren...you see a pattern here?!?
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Kind of looks like it. BTW, love this movie.
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April 12, 2011, 10:57 a.m. CST
Look at that set! Nowadays it would prolly be a partial
by openthepodbaydoorshal
build, with greenscreen inserts to be added later.
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April 12, 2011, 11:45 a.m. CST
Easily one of my favorite Hitchcock films as well, and that set is sweet.
by WriteForTheEdit
Plus, The Simpsons' parody is also full of win.
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April 12, 2011, 12:31 p.m. CST
And look at the windows directly across from Stewart
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Hitchcock wanted them to be the same aspect ratio as a movie screen. The guy was a genius..
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No lie.
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I recorded it off AMC back when AMC was still commercial-free.
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sent it to him this morning - hope he posts it -
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scared the crap out of me more than most "horror" films.
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The kiss with the gaze into the distance is homaged in CE3K
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And who says Nolan is the new Hitchcock? Madness...
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