Фильм Альфреда Хичкока «Роп»: история убийц, вдохновившаяся Ниче, и секрет съемки без монтажных склеек

I recall seeing Rope around the time of its re-release after three decades of absence. If you haven’t seen it, I’ll try not to provide spoilers. It’s worth watching even though as Hitchcock says, it cannot be done as well in television. There are a vast number of film, theater, and literary treatments of the Leopold and Loeb crime and trial, as well as when I first heard of them as a child, I thought Leopold and Loeb were a comedy duo like Abbott and Costello. Rope is technically beautiful as are all long take films because they test viewer attention and media reception. Complaints about the film are more about the camera than the acting, which technically is what ultimately counts in certain film theories. John Dall’s performance as Brandon reminds us of Trump’s malignant narcissism. Rope  is a 1948 American  psychological   crime   thriller film  directed by  Alfred Hitchcock, inspired by the  1929 play of the same title  by  Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by  Hume Cronyn  with a screenplay by  Arthur Laurents. [7] The film was produced by Hitchcock and  Sidney Bernstein  as the first of their  Transatlantic Pictures  productions. Starring  James Stewart,  John Dall  and  Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock’s  Technicolor  films, [8]  and is notable for taking place in  real time  and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together  long takes. [9] It is the second of Hitchcock’s “limited setting” films, the first being  Lifeboat  (1944). [10]  The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old  Bobby Franks  in 1924 by  University of Chicago  students  Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. The film received mixed reviews and performed poorly at the box office upon its release, but its reception has grown more favorable over the years. Roger Ebert  wrote in 1984: “Alfred Hitchcock called  Rope  an ‘experiment that didn’t work out’, and he was happy to see it kept out of release for most of three decades”, but Ebert went on to say that “ Rope  remains one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted by a major director working with big box-office names, and it’s worth seeing ….” [11] Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr.   [1]  and  Richard Albert Loeb, together known as  Leopold and Loeb, were two American murderers who kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in  Chicago,  Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924. Leopold and Loeb, both students at the  University of Chicago, were respectively aged 19 and 18 and were  engaged in a relationship  at the time of their  crime. They committed the murder – characterized at the time as “the  crime of the century “ [2]  – hoping to demonstrate superior intellect, [3]  which they believed enabled and entitled them to carry out a “ perfect crime ” without consequences. Leopold’s and Loeb’s families retained  Clarence Darrow  as lead counsel for their  defense. Darrow’s eight-hour summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential  criticism  of  capital punishment  as  retributive  rather than  transformative justice. Both men were sentenced to  life imprisonment  plus 99 years. Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1936. Leopold was released on  parole  in 1958. The case has since served as the inspiration for several dramatic works. While filming Rope (1948), a heavy dolly camera broke a crew member’s foot mid-take. Since the shot had been running for minutes, a stagehand covered his mouth and dragged him away so the scream wouldn’t ruin the take for Alfred Hitchcock. pic.twitter.com/eys729xxS4 https://t.co/VgbYS6fgVl — cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) March 5, 2026 Leopold was also interested in  Friedrich Nietzsche ‘s concept of “ supermen ” ( Übermenschen ), interpreting them as transcendent individuals possessing extraordinary and unusual capabilities, whose superior intellects allowed them to rise above the laws and rules that bound the unimportant, average populace. [7]  Leopold believed it was possible that he and Loeb could become such individuals, and as such, by his interpretation of Nietzsche’s doctrines, they were not bound by any of society’s normal ethics or rules. [7]  In a letter to Loeb, he wrote, “A superman … is, on account of certain superior qualities inherent in him, exempted from the ordinary laws which govern men. He is not liable for anything he may do.” [21] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb You can have Wonder Woman but Supergirl maintains certain gender asymmetries; why has there been no Superwoman? I won’t bore you with my discourse with an LLM as to whether that’s sexism or not. ( It tried to weasel around by claiming Lois Lane is a “super-woman” even if she’s not Superwoman). More pop music that I have discovered for the first time by listening to Fasnacht and Karneval brass band covers of pop music. ”  Paid   My   Dues  ” is a song by American rapper  NF. It was released on December 3, 2019, as the lead single from his first mixtape Clouds (2021). [1] Written and produced alongside Tommee Profitt and Saint X of Capital Kings,  NF  calls out critics and their hypocrisy, showing how he made his path to success ”  Uprising  ” is a song by the English rock band  Muse, released on 4 August 2009 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The Resistance (2009). It was written by Matt Bellamy, produced by the band and mixed by Spike Stent. “Otherside” is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released as the third single from their seventh studio album, Californication, and confronts the battles addicts have with their prior addictions. Lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis wrote the song about former band member Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose in 1988. “Otherside” was released in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan in 1999 and was given a US and UK release in January 2000 Johnny  O (born Juan Ortiz in Brooklyn, New York [2]) is an American freestyle and dance-pop singer. He reached the Billboard charts in the late 1980s with the singles “Fantasy  girl “, “Memories” and “Runaway Love”.