Essay, Research Paper: Authorial Shots Of "Rear Window"

Authorial shots of "Rear Window"


In "Rear Window", we are taken into the movie. Hitchcock let's us be able to explore the good use of authorial shots. The authorial shots can establish a point that is very key to the movie. IT is necessary to show them, to show the movie's way of working and what is going on between the characters.
In the opening scene, we are guided through a series of scenes. The camera takes us from one scene to another by moving in and out, up and down. The temperature is shown, which is a heat wave temperature and then moves on to the other people out in the view of Jeffreys window. It moves to the people sleeping outside, to the different windows, then into Jeffreys apartment, where we are first introduced to him. We see his cast on his leg with his name, L. B. Jeffreys. Then it moves through his room, onto the pictures that he had taken, the girl, the car crash and then to his camera, telling us that he is a photographer.
We are given misleading information only once in the movie. When Jeffreys is sleeping at night, after watching Thorwald all night, he misses out on Thorwald leaving his apartment with a woman. I thought that the woman was his wife, and so the murder never happened. Later in the movie, I realize that Thorwald was having an affair and figured out that that was the lady who he had had an affair.
In the last scene, a lot of voyeurism was shown. The scene was kind of like the beginning scene. It shot different views of the scenery outside of Jeffreys apartment. This time, it showed the different people and the outcomes of later after the whole murder. It seemed as if everything came to its outcome. The newlyweds were fighting. Miss Lonely Heart was with the musician from upstairs. He was helpful in the process of suicide by his music that he had made up. It seemed like she decided to stay alive. You can tell because while Miss Lonely Heart is in his apartment, he said he wanted to play the final record for her. Her comment was, "You don't know how much this means to me." After that scene, the view of Thorwald's apartment is shown being repainted and ready for new owners. The lady whose dog had been murdered has a puppy to take care of. Miss Torso is interrupted during her ballet dancing by her long gone military boyfriend, who is not interested in anything, but the "icebox". In Jeffreys' apartment, he is shown napping and Lisa is on the bed in non-couture clothing, reading a book on the Himalayas and after she looks up briefly at Jeffreys, she takes out "Bazaar" magazine, to show how she still is into the fashion.
"Rear Window" has come down to being a little bit of peeping Tom to a big murder case for L. B. Jeffreys. It helps us discover what it's like to be able to figure out a case on your own and watch it moves on from there. In the movie, we were the audience of Thorwald and everyone else. When Lisa goes into Thorwald's apartment, we are taken into the movie a little bit because she is usually on our side of the view. Then when Thorwald is in Jeffrey's apartment, the whole show comes to us and we the audience, is no longer part the audience. Hitchcock has done a great job of demonstrating this for us.