You Don't Want the Body to Be Discovered

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There's this enormous tension, because you don't want the body to be found. It is a kind of brilliantly sedistic and so this gets to one of the keyplop pointsth ready mentioned. They put the murdered kitten in a trunk. So they essentially put it on display. And that trunk is in many of the shots in the foreground. The whole movie, they're, they're going to be found out. You know what's going to happen.

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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