stevestory
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Since DVD's spin, this post is technically on-topic 
Watched the first 80% of Vertigo today. Was pretty busy and have guests coming up from south Florida including the missus so lots of things were happening. Anyway, saw about the first hour and 45 mins, but won't get to see the rest for a few weeks. Thoughts so far:
1 that brightly-lit san fran apt was gorgeous.
2 everybody drinks and smokes all the time Woohoo! NOM NOM NOM
3 i heard the cool vertiginous shot was a zoom plus a backward motion of the camera, but based on what I know of optics, it looks like a zoom out with a forward motion. I could just be getting the foreground and background confused, I'll have to see it several more times.
(to be clear, what I mean is, as the shot progressed, more background stuff seemed to fit between two foreground bits, while the foreground bits stayed the same apparent size. The first part seems to result from a forward camera motion--hold your hands out a foot from your eyes, then bring them closer--more background stuff fits between them--while the last part is accomplished by zooming out. Of course, I could be looking at the wrong shot. Some variant of that technique is used in 3 different places in the movie. There's the rooftop in the beginning, and then the stairs in the spanish mission much later.)
4 Jimmy Stewart's eyebrows looked like Michael Keaton's.
5 the monochromatic swirls in the opening credits had to remind one of Venture Bros.
6 Great brown suit on Stewart.
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