North By Northwest

North By Northwest



North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets.

In this Trailer of North by Northwest it creates a tail of suspense to the audience, building levels of drama and putting the iconic scenes in the movie to grab, the audiences attention making the audience intrigued to the trailer, this trailer will appeal the audience because it's very intriguing and thrilling for the audience, which will make them watch the film and find out, what happens to Cary Grant the main actor in the film.

North By Northwest is categorized as a thriller genre because of it's frequent fast paced action , because in a thriller there's always fast paced action involved frequently just like in my last post about thriller on North by Northwest...again. In North b y Northwest involves a resourceful hero  attempting to thwart the plans of a villain who is many times more powerful than him/herself. North by Northwest follows a plot of a innocent man Cary Grant who had been framed as a mysterious agent and had other sinister secret organisations after him who believe his on their case as this agent called "George Kaplan",Little do they know, a 'Mr Kaplan' does not exist and was completely fabricated by the CIA to protect their REAL agent on the case, Miss Kendal (Eva Marie Saint).

In my opinion the films confusing to understand but somehow Alfred Hitchcock keeps his audience intact to their seats because of the intense frequent action and constant music in the background which also gives us hint when there's a mysterious or unsatisfactory scene about to happen, the music starts to build like a block of legos and when it rises as the audience we can tell what might happen, keeping us in the edge of our seats. Aside from the other dramatic devices used in the film, the idea of a cliffhanger is most evident with the characters literally hanging off Mount Rushmore at one point. The cliffhanger in the film starts to make the audience contribute to believe if the characters will live or die especially people who have started to watch Hitchcock films for the first time such as myself making as wonder if the writer will cut off a character and destroy his/her life especially if the audience have started to gain feelings for the characters in the last two hours of this anticipating thriller.

In Alfred Hitchcocks Fabulous film north by northwest the best scene shot in the film, would be the crop duster scene, where we see our hero facing a machine, which is trying to rip our beloved hero, especially this scene starts get us; as the audience question if the hero will survive through this next obstacle or will he perish death. also this scene is very exciting as they used this exact scene on their posters, which would attract, audiences to watch the film and find out why Cary Grant is running away from the crop duster. this one particular scene would be the most thrilling in the film because it makes the audience sit in the edge of their seats, making them think if 'Thornhill' will survive this trap.

Red Herrings are used in the film. It turns out that the villains are pursuing to smuggle a microfilm out of the country, so it must be important if some characters are actually prepared to sacrifice themselves for this mysterious equipment. Turns out this is only one of Hitchcock's "MacGuffins", a device simply used to move the plot along. What we really care about the film is whether poor Thornhill (Cary Grant) will get himself out of trouble or not. North by Northwest is a film typical of the thriller genre, making audiences question a lot about who lives? or dies?!