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Nebs
Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:01 pm Posts: 6385
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Frenzy
FrenzyQuote: Frenzy is a 1972 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The film is based upon the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer. La Bern later expressed his dissatisfaction with Shaffer's adaptation. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.
The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.
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Dr. Lecter
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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Re: Frenzy
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That was a really weird one for me. It didn't work as much as a good crime thriller/drama, but much rather as a good, brutally dark comedy. The performances are good all-around, especially by Barry Foster and Alec McCowen (the scenes with him eating his wife's meals are priceless!). The payoff is very much anti-climatic and generally lacking, though.
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67060
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Frenzy
A latter-career thriller from one of the greatest filmmakers to have lived, Frenzy focuses on the "Necktie Murderer" and a wrongly convicted man, Richard Blaney, with all the evidence stacked against him. Hitchcock has made a superb film here. Some shots and ideas are just so beautiful for a film made now, let alone in 1972. The tracking shot on the second murder when Rusk invites Babs back to his flat features a potent realisation of such an attack happening in broad daylight, unbeknownst to anyone. Frenzy is not quite as perfect or gripping as his earlier suspense films, but still up there. I feel an audience will be less sympathetic towards Blaney because he looks so unkempt and dirty and exactly like the type of seedy dude that would leer over young women (which is also why this film is great because it challenges prejudice).
The scenes with Chief Inspector Oxford and his wife (Vivien Merchant) are hilarious.
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23840 Location: Classified
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Re: Frenzy
Unlike his final film, Family Plot (which felt ahead of its time as an influence to the Coen's style), Frenzy very much feels like it is clinging to classic cinema and not in a good way. A down-on-his-luck hard-edged man who has been framed for murder, somewhere we've all been before. The only new things are the tits, which Alfred loves to show right before he kills all the women in the cast. But fear not, Hitchcock also uses this project to promote a critical and important message to the masses - his wife's cooking is terrible!
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