Differences In Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

From time to time, literature works turn into film productions based on how good the story line is and if both director and producer can bring the literature work to life through the film world. In this case, Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock, was a good example of bringing Cornell Woolrich work to life. Of course reading the short story and watching the film was going to have different aspects from one another because literature work gives the reader better things about the character and goes in depth on how the character is, his or her life, and conflicts within their inner self. On the other hand, film production display the characters moods, feelings, and emotions by music with visual effects that will appear sometime or another

One difference that was brought to attention was, in It had to be Murder, Sam was the day house man taking care of Jefferies as well as taking care of Jefferies risky deeds; while Stella was the day house lady and Lisa did the risky deeds in the film. Another difference that did not appear on the film but was in the short story was when Jefferies and Sam heard a cricket chirping that symbolized death, but in the film, there was a small dog that kept sniffing Lars Thorwald flower bed meaning the dog knew something was going on. Later in the film, Lars killed the dog to keep his secret about his wife. Jefferies had a cast on the whole time during both film and story, but both had a different ending. At the end of the story, Dr. Preston came to Jefferies house to take his cast off; nevertheless, at the end of the film, Jefferies felled out of the window and broke his other leg, which caused him to have a cast on both of his legs. In addition to the differences with both story and film, the ending for Lars Thorwald was different as well because in the story, he died in the short story, but he did not die in the

One observation was, camera is not a camera, “the camera should take on human qualities and roam around playfully looking for something suspicious in a room. This allows the audience to feel like they are involved in uncovering the story” (Jeffrey M. Bays, web). This was displayed in the film when Jefferies was looking through each one of his neighbors room scoping to see what was going on when he comes across the Thorwald’s. When Jefferies gathered his information and was analyzing Mrs. Thorwald where about, the audience got a closer look and solved the mystery right along with Jefferies. Another observation was, point of view editing, basically shows the audience that two characters can be smiling the same, but can be smiling at something different. With this step, Hitchcock uses the close-up frame on the characters for a deeper meaning as well as a clear meaning on why that character is smiling the way they are smiling. An example that was viewed within the film was when Lars seen a neighbor’s dog sniffing around his flower bed, and Lars could not do anything to the dog but smile since it was day light. However, Jefferies sees Lars smiling at the dog and then he turns his attention to a women who was undressing herself, and he smiled to that view. Second to last observation was, montage gives you control, when