North By North West A Perfect Thriller

What is North by North West?
North by North by West is an an American spy thriller film made in 1959. It was filmed in the Unites States and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The main actor of the film is Cary Grand and the actress is Eva Marie Saint. The role of the villain was played by James Mason. The screen play was written by Ernest Lehman who wanted to write 'the Hitchcock picture to end all the Hitchcock pictures'.

Plot
North by North West is about a story of how a person called Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for 'George Kaplan' and is kidnapped by Valerian and Licht two hit men who work for Vandamm, the villain of the movie. The two hit men take Thornhill to a long island estate of Lester Townsend. When he arrives Vandamm interrogates Thornhill. Leonard then intends to get rid of Thornhill by forcing him to drink bourbon. However because Thornhill is a resource and smart hero, he manages to escape the staged driving. Throughout the film Roger tries to escape the villains.

North by North West follows Todorov's narrative theory, it contains five stages,
1. Equilibrium, where everything is as it should be.
2. A disruption of that order by an event.
3. A recognition that disorder by an event.
4.An attempt to repair the damage of the disrupt.
5.A return or restoration of a new equilibrium.





itchcock
In all of Hitchcock's films, Hitchcock planned every scene visually in advance, when directing Hitchcock never looked at the camera, he imagined himself looking at a cinema screen. He's films contain alot of fast pacing and frequent action, In North by North West Hitchcock make the actor of the film a resourceful hero, for example the scene where he's in the exhibition and the villains try to kill him, he gets away. Hitchcock believes that the stress on the visuals makes cinema accessible in different languages. Hitchcock also said he wants to transfer the menace that appears on screen into the mind of the audience.



The most greatest scene from North by North West
The crop buster scene was considered to be the most greatest and suspense scene of the film.
In this scene Roger O. Thornhill who is getting mistaken for George Kaplan finally comes to meet George Kaplan, and is nearly killed by a crop duster. As you can see the crop duster is chasing Roger, the suspence in this scene was overwhelming


Representation of women in 'North by Northwest'
Laura Mulvey came  up with 'visual pleasure and cinema' she said that men are active and women are passive. Women do not have agency, they don'd move the plot forward.The camera is male, the audience is forced to identify with male gaze. The cinema reflects patriarchal society. Patriarchy & phallocentrism linked - phallus (penis) a symbol of power - e.g. in cinema guns =phallus=power.
Patriarchal society= Men dictate the rules.
Mulvey argues we live in a patriarchal society in which men set the majority of the rules and construct and represent the ideal visions, roles and male dominance over women.
The worry is a passive audience will be influenced by this representation of reality and copy it and it will actually become reality.
She believed in the 'male gaze' which was women were viewed as objects of male erotic desire in film and audience.
That men were active and women were passive.
The women in north by north west is scene as an object for sexual pleasure.