Edward Dmytryk's THE SNIPER Vertigoed

An entry for Press Play's VERTIGOED Contest http blogs indiewire com pressplay the-vertigo-contest by Catherine Grant http filmstudiesforfree blogspot com br br Kim Novak co-star of VERTIGO Alfred Hitchcock 1958 took out an ad in VARIETY http blogs indiewire com theplaylist kim-novak-upset-about-use-of-vertigo-score-in-the-artist-dramatically-calling-it-rape protesting the use of Bernard Herrmann's VERTIGO score in Michel Hazanavicius s 2011 modern silent film THE ARTIST I want to report a rape went the headline I feel as if my body - or at least my body of work -- has been violated by the movie THE ARTIST Novak wrote and went on to decry the use and abuse of famous pieces of work to gain attention and applause for other than what they were intended br br Enter the story the PRESS PLAY blog which launched a contest -- inviting readers to re-use Herrmann's Scene d'Amour music in their own mash-up -- inspired by the idea that Bernard Herrmann's VERTIGO score is so passionate and powerful that it can elevate an already good scene -- and a familiar one at that -- to a higher plane of expression br br THE SNIPER Edward Dmytryk 1952 with its own obsessed wandering male protagonist and San Francisco setting was one of the films that probably directly inspired Hitchcock's VERTIGO as well as his 1960 film PSYCHO -- see critic Dave Kehr's thoughts on this http www davekehr com p 21 br br This mash-up chooses thus to marry Herrmann's lush Wagnerian romance with a key sequence from Dmytryk's brilliant film with its astonishing performance of overt misogyny by Arthur Franz as Edward Eddie Miller -- perhaps the perfect filmic mirror-image of James Stewart's unforgettable unconsciously misogynist John Scottie Ferguson br br The original amusement park sequence from THE SNIPER can currently be seen here http www youtube com watch v era MmT1UUw br br The above video was made according to principles of Fair Use Fair Dealing with non-commercial scholarly and critical aims and was published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3 0 Unported License in January 2012

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