"The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) : Analyzing shot by shot In terms of narrative structure
The Director who would love to be cameo roles in his own most films, known for "The Master of Suspense", British film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock widely respected as one of the most pioneer and adept filmmaker in the history of world cinema.
Alfred Hitchcock directed numerous films but "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) was the olny remake of his own film of 1934 with the same title name. As a cameo role Hicthcock visibled in his remake also, in the moroccan marketplace in a crowd watching the elevated acrobats with his back to the camera of the extrem left screen, just before the murder.
On the next day, in the moroccan market Mckenna meet dying Bernard in disguise whispers about "Ambross Chappell"
According to David Broadwel's Cause-Effect structure we can notice in the cinema. Here we can pick tbe incident whispering to McKenna before Bernard's death that place will be taken in London and we can assume finaly that when Dryton, assassinate group kidnaped Mckenna's son to London. As an effect of this McKenna with his wife ahead to London too. Thier intesion is about to search "Ambross Chappell" in order to get his son's information. After hectic searching of "Ambross Chappell" Jo finally finds it accurately as a place where Prime Minister is about to visit to a musical program. McKenna and Jo finally reaches to Ambross Chappell.
The Deadly Crescendo scene:
In this scenes Hitchcock takes again atmosphere silent film. Jo somehow recognize the assassinator because of she noticed him in Marrakesh before.. Jo somehow recognizes the assassinator because of she noticed him in Marrakesh before. We can call this as surprise scene as silent musical scene where the London Symphony Orchestra and Covent Garden Chorus performed in Albert Hall conducted by American composer Bernard Herrmann, the music serves as a dialouge to carry the action to a smashing climax.The highspot is ingenously signaled in advance, as a suspense plant. When the musical crescendo strikes its top notes Jo screamed by seeing the assassinator motive of triggering to Prime Minister. In the deadly crescendo scene , shot:01 tell the Jo's fearness, also her confusion that se is alone here without husband. sometimes this shot define about existent crisis because in this shot we can see two shadow of Jo which create confusion her inner mind. each shots decribes about the tense of the moment about killing the prime minister. Most of the shots is considered as preparation to kill the miniister. Expression of each charecters, lighting, the musical instruments themselves are clue that when Minister will be killed. The two female charecters here in the scene changes their anxiety moments in terms of interpret the lighting and shot design.
The Man Who Knew Too Much begins with the intertitles : "A single crash of Cymbals and it rocked the lives of an American family." Using the odd capitalizing of "Cymbals", Donald Spoto (1979) states that, " To see the epigraph as ofering pun on 'Symbols'" (242)
One might also read "Crash" as a pun on "Clash" as suggested by film's astonishing opening scene on a bus traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, McKenna familly on a vacation revisiting the area where Dr. Mckenna stationed during the world war two, when bus jerks Hanks accidently garps and thus removed the veil of an Arab women, initiating a clash of symbols at several levels. So clash is kind of different view of identifiatioin. In the Arabian tradition, women use veils to sexual identification, of safety. Perhaps Arabian Muslim women's veil is removed with European obsession. So there still remains of culturaly clash between two different tradition And this beginning scene may be a signal of how McKenna family's vacation would be, what Hitchcock always loves to put mystery in his film.
References:
Truffaut, Francois (1983). Hitchcock/Truffaut. Simon & Schuster
Susan M Griffith, Alan Nadel, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock directed numerous films but "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) was the olny remake of his own film of 1934 with the same title name. As a cameo role Hicthcock visibled in his remake also, in the moroccan marketplace in a crowd watching the elevated acrobats with his back to the camera of the extrem left screen, just before the murder.
In the length interview entitled Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut's assertion that Hitchcock's 1956 remake cinema is considered as superior to the original. In response to fellow director Truffaut, Hicthcock replied, " Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amarteur and the second was made by a professional."
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is considered as American cinema, distibuted by Paramount Pictures. Though it was about to screen in 1941 but again in 1956 it brought back idea to make the film with fulfilling the contractual demand with Paramount Pictures.
The synopsis of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is about an American doctor Dr. Benjamin McKenna and his wife popular singer Josephine "Jo" Conway Mckenna take matters into thier own hand for their kidnapped son as doctor McKenna heard about assassins planning to kill the foreign prime minister.The plot follows a middle aged Dr. McKenna family from Casablanca to Marrakesh. On the bus to Marrakesh they met detective Frenchman Louis Bernard. According to detective minded questions and evasive answers Jo suspects Bernard. with the cirusity Bernard offers Mckennas to take to the dinner but cancels the event for the important task of detective Bernard. At the night the Mckennas family meet friendy English couple in restaurent.
Morrocan market scene
(before the dedective die)
The synopsis of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is about an American doctor Dr. Benjamin McKenna and his wife popular singer Josephine "Jo" Conway Mckenna take matters into thier own hand for their kidnapped son as doctor McKenna heard about assassins planning to kill the foreign prime minister.The plot follows a middle aged Dr. McKenna family from Casablanca to Marrakesh. On the bus to Marrakesh they met detective Frenchman Louis Bernard. According to detective minded questions and evasive answers Jo suspects Bernard. with the cirusity Bernard offers Mckennas to take to the dinner but cancels the event for the important task of detective Bernard. At the night the Mckennas family meet friendy English couple in restaurent.
Morrocan market scene
(before the dedective die)
On the next day, in the moroccan market Mckenna meet dying Bernard in disguise whispers about "Ambross Chappell"
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According to David Broadwel's Cause-Effect structure we can notice in the cinema. Here we can pick tbe incident whispering to McKenna before Bernard's death that place will be taken in London and we can assume finaly that when Dryton, assassinate group kidnaped Mckenna's son to London. As an effect of this McKenna with his wife ahead to London too. Thier intesion is about to search "Ambross Chappell" in order to get his son's information. After hectic searching of "Ambross Chappell" Jo finally finds it accurately as a place where Prime Minister is about to visit to a musical program. McKenna and Jo finally reaches to Ambross Chappell.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much begins with the intertitles : "A single crash of Cymbals and it rocked the lives of an American family." Using the odd capitalizing of "Cymbals", Donald Spoto (1979) states that, " To see the epigraph as ofering pun on 'Symbols'" (242)
One might also read "Crash" as a pun on "Clash" as suggested by film's astonishing opening scene on a bus traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, McKenna familly on a vacation revisiting the area where Dr. Mckenna stationed during the world war two, when bus jerks Hanks accidently garps and thus removed the veil of an Arab women, initiating a clash of symbols at several levels. So clash is kind of different view of identifiatioin. In the Arabian tradition, women use veils to sexual identification, of safety. Perhaps Arabian Muslim women's veil is removed with European obsession. So there still remains of culturaly clash between two different tradition And this beginning scene may be a signal of how McKenna family's vacation would be, what Hitchcock always loves to put mystery in his film.
References:
Truffaut, Francois (1983). Hitchcock/Truffaut. Simon & Schuster
Susan M Griffith, Alan Nadel, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
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