North By North West

Title: North by North West
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Thriller
Setting: USA, 1959
Starring Carey Grant

This film is about an advertising exceutive who gets mistaken for a governement agent, he is kidnapped by two men and interogated by them and then let go however he is trying to track down the real government agent.

• Sense of confusion in the desert scene, baroness of the film indicates feeling of loss


• Loud sounds indicates silence, which creates the feeling of hopelessness - lack of music


• Strange man indicates danger- points out the crop dusting plane where no crops are growing


• Builds tension between the two men, then nothing happens


• Fright when plane turns on the man and attacks him


• Wide angles, cuts (editing) crane shots


• Vunderablility of the main character in a huge plac, on his own- portrayedas one tiny object


• Hitchcockshows the main character's body language changing with each situation


• Diagetic sounds- natural sounds to the film, e.g bus revving, crunch of stones beneath feet


• Anti- climax tension buliding, then letting down - false platter high tension levels decreasing then rising again


• Desert's baroness reflects on characters confusion and bewilderment


• Long road implies long journey for character