On 6/28/95 Kristine Butler wrote:
>Can anyone help me in thinking of movies in which a conversation or a human
>voice is deliberately obstructed or drowned out by another sound, thus
>frustrating the spectator's access to the voice or voices in question?
>Godard does this in certain of his films, and I'm thinking that Hitchcock
>has too (in that this is a clever way to build suspense).  Thanks in
>advance!
 
Hitchcock's TOPAZ (1969) is pretty much a series of set pieces or exercises
in just sort of thing and other Hitchcock gimmicks.  One scene has a
character cross a busy street to talk to another in a hotel lobby, for
example, and all you can hear is traffic while you watch a fierce argument
from the other side of the street.
 
The title character in Hitchcock's THE LADY VANISHES tells some secret into
to Michael Redgrave, but it's drowned out for viewers by the train whistle
and other train sounds.
 
--Richard J. Leskosky
 
Richard J. Leskosky                     office phone: (217) 244-2704
Assistant Director                      FAX: (217) 244-2223
Unit for Cinema Studies                 University of Illinois
 
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