Rope

Rope -  Rope is a thriller based film made in 1948 by Alfred Hitchcock. The main characters in this thriller are James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger. It is a very mysterious thriller movie.

Two friends strangle their classmate who they perceive as being 'inferior' to them and hide his body in their apartment and then invite his family and friends over for a gathering which is held for him. They are percieved in the movie as twisted superior men who are making a mockery of his death and celebrating the fact that they think they will get away with their classmates murder. Killing a man and getting away with it to feeds to one's own intelectual vanity is the kind of trick Hitchcock excels at. Throughout the film from the moment the young men kill the young man, they hide his body in a box in a room where the party is being held, this leads the audience left in anticipation on whether or not someone will open or notice the box.

The main story plot builds towards a climax.

Rope is a film which was made in 1948 about two men who strangle an old 'classmate' they perceive as being inferior to them. They choose to hide the body in a chest draw and host a party with the draw chest draw in the room where the party is being held, this adds a thrill and suspensive feel to the movie. During the film after they strangle their old classmate they attempt to hide their crime from the other guests, however one of the males who participated in the crime begins to get paranoid and worried that someone will find out.

Suspense At the beginning of Rope, the audience become aware of who the antagonists are, as the first scene consists of the two men killing their old class mate and hiding the body in a chest draw. This adds a suspensive feel to the audience from the beginning, it leaves them thinking throughout the whole film if someone will suspect anything and look inside the chest draw. In films such as Rope building tension in a key element as it keeps the audience interested and makes them want to watch further. The fact that the chest draw is in the room the party is being held adds to the suspense as it makes the audience feel that anyone in the room could discover the body at any time.

Mis-en-scene 
The main setting of this film was in an apartment, majority of the scenes throughout the film were shot in the front room where the party was being held. Mis-en scene plays a big role in how the scene was displayed. In the shot below, the audience see the woman in grey looking up at the male, this shows that the man has more authority and is more dominant than her. It was very typical back in the 1940's to portray the male as a more powerful figure, most films still do this.                                                                                




Narrative theories 
This film follows Todorov's narrative theory as it starts off on an equilibrium, the equilibrium is disrupted when the murder takes place. The next stage is the recognition of the disruption, this is when the guests at the party begin to suspect something is wrong and the two men are are up to something. In the end the new equilibrium is not established however the audience discover the two men were already wanted by police.