Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Hitchcock Psychology
In Hitchcock's films psychology ties into many other things. Psychology ties in with historical content because Hitchcock had to research and have common knowledge about mental illness and diseases before he would know the actual signs of it and how the characters should/would act. In Psycho one of the characters has "mommy issues", this ties back to Freud's real psychological theories. Along with historical content is ethics. Ethics ties in with psychology for a numerous amount of reasons. He makes it so we actually feel what the characters are feeling and the characters ethics. With this it relates to psychology because many people have different ideas about ethics including when the characters have psychological issues. Also, science and technology goes along with psychology. For example, the camera angles. Hitchcock is known for using the camera in a unique way. With the way Hitchcock angles his camera it shows the characters psychological state.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Blog 7
In each of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, psychology plays a huge role in the development of the plot and characters. Most of the time the main characters are the one who's psychology is a little off which builds up the plot because they are acting unusual and getting them into situations that would not happen to "normal" people. For example in the movie Vertigo, the main character has a traumatic experience with heights so from then on, it affects what he does in the movie and ultimately ends up getting someone killed because he got dizzy; just like what had happened to him before. In the movie Rear Window, the same kind of thing happened with an accident happening leading to the main character just staring out his window all day watching others live their own lives. With him watching out the window all day he ends up witnessing what he believes is a murder and gets tied up into trying to prove that the main who lives across from him murdered his wife. The psychology of first watching other people live their lives instead of trying to live your own just proves that it is a crucial part of this Hitchcock film because without that characteristic, the entire film would not have happened that way. Same goes for Vertigo and how the plot develops around the mental state of him not being able to stand heights and getting dizzy every time he has to encounter them. Lastly in the movie Psycho which is the most heavily influenced movie by psychology from Hitchcock, is about "a psychologically damaged young man connected with a much larger discussion over political and sexual deviance in the early Cold War" Most of the psychology elements in Hitchcock films are based off of disorders which drives the plot and allows a thriller style movie to unfold.
^Link to PDF of psychoanalysis of the movie Psycho
^Link to use of Freud's theory in Hitchcock films
^How Hitchcock plays off of Suspense
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