7/21/2023 0 Comments Rebecca movie![]() ![]() I could definitely see myself growing used to that kind of chivalry. I’d love to have a man run to my rescue just because I was clumsy enough to knock over a vase of flowers, or pull out my chair for me, or offer me his coat if it started to rain. His show of reverence for a lady, even one of a lower class, was charming and sexy in my opinion. Compared to the male leads popular in today’s movies Olivier took care in how he dressed, wearing a suit and hat every day, rather than just on special occasions. One thing apart from the story itself that I found myself appreciating was the dashing heroic male used in older movies, embodied by Laurence Olivier playing Mr. She has a young, innocent air about her that Mr. She also wears her hair down and loose, rather than pulled back and rigid. She dresses in lighter colors, for instance, than we see on upper class characters. de Winters is always immaculately dressed and says the perfect thing, the young woman has a lightness about her. Hitchcock makes clear from the very beginning, through their dress, manners, even the way they talk, the vast difference in the two character’s stations. de Winter, all the while using the excuse that she’s taking tennis lessons. The same is conveyed as, over the next few weeks, the young woman sneaks away from her employer to meet incognito with Mr. Hitchcock also brings up the subject of the much loved Rebecca, the previous Mrs. de Winter, and the clearly middle to lower class station of the heroine. ![]() A clear picture is drawn in this scene between the uppercrust lifestyle of Mr. de Winter again inside a lavish hotel as he runs into our heroine, a paid companion to a Mrs. I thought it was a fitting way to start off this particular gothic tale that centers on death and ghostly hauntings. Thinking he’s going to jump, she runs towards him and yells in an attempt to stop him. de Winter is when our heroine, who’s name we never actually discover, stumbles upon him staring at the sea on a cliff in Monte Carlo. Well, I guess that is something that I will be gradually investigating as I go through this journey. It was like even though I’ve never seen Rebecca I already knew the music as soon as I heard the first bar, and it triggered my ingrained irrational dislike of old films. It’s also odd that even though I’ve seen very few old movies, that style of music used in older music, heavy on the string instruments and very lilting at the beginning, is still so very familiar to me. I’m not sure why that was my first reaction, but I definitely did not start off excited to watch this movie. When the movie began and I heard those first strings of music, however, I immediately noticed a knot form in my stomach, as if I was about to get a tooth pulled or take a final exam for school. ![]() I’ve always heard great things about him, so I’ll admit I expected this movie to live up to his name. I’ve also just finished watching my first Hitchcock film. Well, I’ve just officially started my yearlong journey into the land of old movies. ![]()
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