"marking the move from one world to another"--that is crucial to one way of
interpreting Vertigo/*D'entre les morts*.   Hitchcock becomes the Charon
letting Scottie hang around a bit in the middle of the stream so to  speak.

This is a story about a real ghost:  Scottie, imagining his lost life.


Eleni

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:14 PM, William Lingle <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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> "He walks across the film frame, carrying a trumpet case, as Scottie is
> about to go upstairs to
> Elster's office in the shipyard. I read Hitchcock as marking the move from
> one world to another. He is a Pied Piper, leading Scottie away from the
> realistic world, where, as "hard-headed Scot," he has just been
> tryingrationally to overcome his acrophobia. "
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>  But I believe that is an ear trumpet case.  It's not a trumpet case.  A
> small point, perhaps, but on such points does interpretation hinge.
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