5/29/2023 0 Comments Vertigo pierre boileauLater on, the affair with Judy ( Renee in the book) becomes a tawdry thing, played out in cramped hotel rooms and bad restaurants, with the hero dogging around after a woman who is obviously sick of him.Īll of which may be more realistic than Hitchcock’s brilliantly realized amour fou ( I don’t say it is more realistic just that it may be) but makes for definitely less satisfying drama. In the book, the authors play up the mundane aspects of the aftermath, with the couple marking time sitting around a cheap bar in borrowed clothes, finding nothing to say to each other. In the film, for instance, when Scotty rescues Madeleine from drowning, it sparks a romantic ( and sexual) connection between them that suffuses the rest of the story. Film: Paramount, 1958, as Vertigo (Kim Novak, James Stewart director: Alfred Hitchcock).Īs the basis for Hitchcock’s film, the book by Boileau and Narcejac shows an interesting contrast in attitude and approach to the story: where Vertigo the movie is melancholy and romantic, Vertigo the book is merely sad and cynical, mainly because the authors undercut the story at every turn with a detachment that was probably meant to be objective but comes off as merely snide. Translation of D’Entre les Morts, Paris, 1954. UK edition: The Living and the Dead, Hutchinson, hc, 1956. PIERRE BOILEAU & THOMAS NARCEJAC – Vertigo.
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