North by Northwest

North by Northwest:

1.) Hitchcock's use of color in the movie was effective, especially in the re-mastered DVD. In comparison to film noir, the colors of the movie show that Mr. Thorhill is just a normal man being caught up in a mix of bad accidents and events and is generally not dark and sinister as the characters in the dark shadows of Film Noir are. The scene where Thornhill is being chased by a plane would normally be a dark scene with not much color, but in this case it happens in the middle of a sunny day in the middle of farm fields.

2.) Hitchcock used suspense effectively in the film especially in the scene where the airplane is flying over the cornfields and trying to kill Mr. Thornhill. The scenes were not shortly edited with intense close-ups in tight spaces, but rather let you see the plane swing around slowly and swoop in for another attack, while Thornhill waited to see if the plane would be back again and all while confused of the situation. Earlier in the film, Hitchcock used the chase of Thornhill on the train by train officials, and also when the train made an unscheduled stop to pick up two police officers, to create a bit of suspense in Thornhill getting caught or not.

3.) I think that the movie appealed to both the art house audience and general audience because the unique use of suspense and different styles of editing and cinematography intrigued the art house audience, while the simple yet complex storyline, suspense scenes and romance appealed to the general audience.

4.) The humor used by Hitchcock in the film effectively, notably the scene where Thornhill is standing in the middle of nowhere waiting for his meeting with the real Mr. Kaplan, and there is no one around for as far as the eye can see, and then a man gets dropped off by a car and is standing at the other side of the road. I found this scene to be comical because the other man