Vertigo

  Vertigo

    Part Four : Tale of Mad Carlotta


Before Watching
Hotel

What can you remember about the film so far? What happened to Madeleine at the hotel? How did she do that?

It's been said that this enigma was a joke Hitchcock liked to play on audiences to provokediscussion between viewers after the film.


While Watching

Answer the following questions while watching :

  1. What is Midge doing when Scottie visits her?
  2. What does Scottie ask Midge?
  3. How does she react?
  4. Who does Midge suggest?
  5. What do they find out about Carlotta?
  6. Where did she come from?
  7. What happened when she came to San Francisco?
  8. What happened next?
  9. Why did she become known as "Mad Carlotta"?
  10. How did she die?
  11. What does Midge threaten Scottie with if he doesn't tell?

After Watching

Bookshop

Did you notice what happened to the lighting in the bookshop? Was it a mistake orintentional? Here's someone's opinion on the matter

I noticed the lighting in the book store too, and since it states elsewhere that all outsideshots were done on location and that Hitch always preferred to do interior shots in thecomfort of a studio, all lighting has to be intentional.

Was it a symbol? A joke? What do you think?

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