Synopsis
The guest who's dead on time.
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
1948 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, 绳索, Ο Βρόχος, 올가미, Nodo alla gola, Repet, La soga, Cocktail für eine Leiche, La Corde, A Corda, Верёвка, 夺魂索, A kötél, Ölüm Kararı, Rebet, Η Θηλιά, החבל, 로프, Funia, Festim Diabólico, Köysi, Provaz, Lina, Въжето, Мотузка, 奪魂索, ロープ, Uže, طناب
This is so gay. I mean, this is SO gay. Maybe you think you know how gay this is. Maybe you thought, "Oh, this is a lil gay" or "Oh, I'm sensing some undertones of homo-eroticism." Except you were wrong because this is perhaps the gayest movie in the history of gay movies and I loved every single second of it.
Oh yeah, good long takes, too.
what’s up with dudes who went to harvard and accusing their friends of chicken cruelty
hot tip: when you're deciding which one of your friends to kill so you can have a murderous dinner party, don't kill the guy who's never late to parties..
the gay subtext, 1-shot (6 actually), 1948, alfred hitch(cock) dinner party murdery movie we all needed
We only ever see the "S" on that huge blinking neon sign outside but I'm pretty sure the rest of it reads "-U-B-T-E-X-T."
Level one is making the killers the protagonists. Level two is making them obviously gay. Level three is making it clear that one of them is sexually aroused by murder. Making it to level three is why Hitchcock was the master.
One of the most innovative films of its time, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope introduces a number of cinematic experiments which, even today, remain widely unexplored in the film world. It is an immensely captivating story of two men who strangle one of their acquaintances, hide his body in their apartment, and then throw a party to determine the perfection of their crime.
Filmed in a manner that gives the illusion of being shot in a single take, the biggest strength of this film is how effortlessly it manages to engage the viewers in its expertly crafted plot & sustain the tension throughout its runtime even when the audience is aware of how the story will end. The direction by Hitchcock is an…
those gays knew it was over when the uninvited wine aunt who does horoscopes showed up