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luzulaOkay, so, Bullitt. Unfortunately this was the kind of movie where I missed about 50% of the plot (I am not good with crime plots, okay) and had to fill myself in on Wikipedia afterwards. But anyway, I was in it to see Steve McQueen acting a cop, obviously. Yeah, I see the Ray Kowalski similarities--that shoulder-holster, some of his clothes--and some of his body language, too. Like belmanoir says in this post (which has some illustrative screencaps), he's got a similar aggressive-yet-shy body language. OTOH, he hasn't got Ray K's jittery, restless moving around. He keeps much more still, and also I feel like he's more secure in his authority? I found him attractive--he's got really lovely eyes--and I can see how Ray would, too (of course, Ray finding him attractive is fanon, not canon, since we canonically only know that he "had a thing for him"). But maybe I'm mostly finding him attractive because of the tie to Ray? I don't know.
I also watched North by Northwest. Wow, I did not expect there to be so much slapstick humor in that movie? Or was that only my mood? Also, I do not find Cary Grant attractive. Anyway, this was not a movie where I missed any of the plot; it felt like it was really clearly telegraphed. The plot did not go the way I expected, though! Based on Fraser and Victoria's comments in Victoria's Secret (Victoria: "I always wanted to be Eve Kendall." Fraser: "But she sends Cary Grant to be killed." Victoria: "She had no choice."), I thought that there would be a revenge motive. When there wasn't that, I thought to the last minute that Eve Kendall would turn out to be a double (or triple, whatever) agent and betray the Cary Grant character at the end. But not, that did not happen. So what does Victoria's comment mean? I mean, I can't see that Eve Kendall's situation is similar to Victoria's? She's not motivated by revenge--instead, she's forced to send the Cary Grant character out to that assassination attempt by the need to keep her cover. Hmm. Maybe it's supposed to be, like, a power fantasy for Victoria? To be able to manipulate someone like that, while still having the excuse of doing it for one's duty?
belmanoir says in this post (which has some illustrative screencaps), he's got a similar aggressive-yet-shy body language. OTOH, he hasn't got Ray K's jittery, restless moving around. He keeps much more still, and also I feel like he's more secure in his authority? I found him attractive--he's got really lovely eyes--and I can see how Ray would, too (of course, Ray finding him attractive is fanon, not canon, since we canonically only know that he "had a thing for him"). But maybe I'm mostly finding him attractive because of the tie to Ray? I don't know. I also watched North by Northwest. Wow, I did not expect there to be so much slapstick humor in that movie? Or was that only my mood? Also, I do not find Cary Grant attractive. Anyway, this was not a movie where I missed any of the plot; it felt like it was really clearly telegraphed. The plot did not go the way I expected, though! Based on Fraser and Victoria's comments in Victoria's Secret (Victoria: "I always wanted to be Eve Kendall." Fraser: "But she sends Cary Grant to be killed." Victoria: "She had no choice."), I thought that there would be a revenge motive. When there wasn't that, I thought to the last minute that Eve Kendall would turn out to be a double (or triple, whatever) agent and betray the Cary Grant character at the end. But not, that did not happen. So what does Victoria's comment mean? I mean, I can't see that Eve Kendall's situation is similar to Victoria's? She's not motivated by revenge--instead, she's forced to send the Cary Grant character out to that assassination attempt by the need to keep her cover. Hmm. Maybe it's supposed to be, like, a power fantasy for Victoria? To be able to manipulate someone like that, while still having the excuse of doing it for one's duty?
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Date: 2013-03-15 03:30 pm (UTC)Do any of those work?
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Date: 2013-03-14 07:42 pm (UTC)I think I saw North by Northwest AGES ago with my parents but I don't remember any of it. Except my mum mooning over Cary Grant ;)
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Date: 2013-03-14 08:10 pm (UTC)It's my probably my least favourite of Hitchcock's movies, so I hadn't seen it in years when I first watched Victoria's Secret recently, and only very vaguely remembered the plot...
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Date: 2013-03-15 02:59 pm (UTC)But I suppose it'd be too obvious if they'd used one with a plot that directly parallelled VS. I suppose it's enough that the general situation is similar (man being manipulated by woman) even if the motives are different.
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Date: 2013-03-19 07:34 pm (UTC)I've been doing a bit of a Hitchcock rewatch over the past few months. I wasn't intending to include N by NW but I think I will, now. Just because of the very oblique connection to Due South!