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However, I've never felt any tension watching the infamous plane sequence in N x NW, and his movie "The Birds" has never done anything for me in terms of being frightened by the birds themselves.
http://seesmic.com/video/Kym1zqXOjl
A great piece from Gareth, hasn't he been hired by any review column yet? I guess he's saving himself just for us. Have you all read his 'How movies helped..' book?
NXNW is my favourite Hitchcock film and I enjoy it not for any feeling of suspense, but just for being a cracking romp of a story and a wonderful script. I love the dining car conversation, as unsubtle as it may be. Whilst typing I am reminded of another fantastic across the table seduction/foreplay scene, which is Lopez and Clooney in Out of Sight. For my money one of the most brilliant combinations of script, performance, chemistry, photography, editing, score etc I've seen.
Gosh how the mind jumps from one thing to another! Any other similar scenes spring to mind?
Watching it I realized to my astonishment that this James Bond movie was in a fact a 'real film'!, (and not a James Bond movie = something that is outside of the normal category of film-going = you don't expect an actual good movie in which something novel and unexpected can happen and is populated by characters of more than 1-dimension).
Jett - Agree about Casino, wonder if they can pull it off with the next one?
As for the 1967 Casino Royale - hoo boy! No structural rigor of any kind.
We made a trip last month to the Canadian Rockies and made it a point to visit Mt. Rushmore on the way back.
This was my first visit there and it was very inspirational. A beautiful place. I had my picture taken at the sign in Keystone which read that "North by Northwest was filmed in the area".
I was rather disappointed that none of the gift shops, even at the monument, had any references to the movie with the exception of having the movie for sale on DVD. I even asked a clerk.