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About two Hitchcock Movies...

Same screenplay writer (John Michael Hayes), same leading actress (Grace Kelly), and close release years (1954 and 1955), all of these make Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and “To Catch a Thief” very similar. Clearly, both of them are typical Hitchcock style: a mystery, a hero, beautiful women and a Hitchcock appearance on the screen. On the other hand, the narrative structure of these two movies is very different, which ingeniously avoids spectator disenchantment, while watching two movies that share many similarities.

In both movies, the stories have the same theme: a hero who is trying to investigate a mystery. “Rear Window” is about a murder, and “To Catch a Thief” is about a series of jewelry robberies. During the mystery solving process, in both stories, a beautiful and graceful woman’s help is crucial and indispensable. Hitchcock makes this feature of his style even more prominent by using the same actress, Grace Kelly, in both movies. Additionally Hitchcock’s style is further validated by ,some trivial re-occurring themes as the policemen, in both movies, are the hero’s obstacle or problem.

Considering these two movies, we can say Hitchcock is really skilled at seeking differences while accepting existing common ground. The major difference in these two movies is the narrative structure. In discovering Hitchcock’s classic style in the common themes as discussed above, the narrative structure of these two movies reveals the diversity of Hitchcock’s movies.

In “Rear Window”, the narrative structure, to a certain extent, is an induction structure, because no one knows, including the hero, Jimmy Stewart, what the mystery is exactly until the last minute of the story. During the whole movie, Jimmy Stewart is trying to collect evidence to figure out what happened to the businessman’s wife, one of the tenants in his apartment building. He assumes it is a murder, but it is just an assumption. The accumulation of evidence finally leads to a concrete conclusion. Briefly speaking, the structure flow is from cause to result, keeping the audience in suspense until the last minutes, with the police catching the murderer after a fight between Jimmy Stewart and the businessman. The whole story could have been a misunderstanding, but instead it is really a mystery within a mystery, as no one knows what will happen until the curtain call. The attraction of this movie is edge-of-your-seat focus on the ending...

Compared with “Rear Window”, the narrative structure of “To Catch a Thief” is much clearer. It is more a process of deduction, because we know all about the jewelry theifts at the beginning of the movie. Throughout the whole movie, Gary Grant is believed to be the perpetrator as he investigates on his own to exonerate himself. Briefly speaking, the structure flow is from result to cause as Hitchcock show a series of jewelry robberies with some mystery about who the criminal is from the very beginning. Even though Gary Grant, a reform jewelry robber is suspect, his culpability is not clear. Generally, the ending is obvious and predictable: Gary Grant discovers the identity of the real robber making the process of investigation the focus of this movie. There are more attractive scenes in “To Catch a Thief” than “Rear Window”, such us the gorgeous scenery of the French countryside which contribute to holding audience attention until the very end...    

The different narrative structures allow these two movies to catch audience attention in different ways illustrating the genius of Hitchcock to leave his audience coming back for more. ..

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人定归本，早安眠...

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Like a Rolling Stone...

像Green Day这种歌词向来写得帅气的乐队来翻唱Bob Dylan的东西还是很带劲的...

Billie Joe Armstrong 快要40岁的老朋客...似乎早已不仅仅是躁动了

虽然年纪已和音乐有几分的不协调 还好歌词依旧...

总比U2里那几个老男人不久前的烟熏装要来得缓和些...

很遗憾秋天就要从湾区搬走了...一直想到Green Day在Ockland的录音室去看看的想法是没戏了...

Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didnt you?
Peopled call, say beware doll, youre bound to fall
You thought they were all kiddin you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin out
Now you dont talk so loud
Now you dont seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Youve gone to the finest school all right, miss lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out youre gonna have to get used to it
You said youd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
Hes not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it aint no good
You shouldnt let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat
Aint it hard when you discover that
He really wasnt where its at
After he took from you everything he could steal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
Theyre drinkin, thinkin that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But youd better lift your diamond ring, youd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you cant refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
Youre invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

 鸡栖于莳，河清定...

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变形金刚2原本是一部很震撼的片子 虽然被和谐掉了东方明珠塔...

但是由于电影院环境与技术的缺陷 除了屏幕大一些丝毫分辨不出与宅在屋里守着电脑看有何区别  

加之周围吵的吵　闹的闹　手机铃声响不断...

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似乎是我一直想要个超大的擎天柱...或者有一天我的Chevy突然也变形了...

变不成大黄蜂 变个绿头苍蝇也成...

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此前一直以为这哥们前一阵子手头很紧 写本书骗点银子

后来发现  估计是在手头很紧的时候顺便的思考了下我们和谐而混乱的社会...

他书中那些从复杂的社会现象中压榨出来的含沙射影破事 足以给人民群众以闲暇中的欢乐

当前形势下  我们的确需要他这种看似亢奋敏感 却又很不正经的近似边缘青年 

娱乐大众 人人有责...

3. Michael Jackson 死了 在UCLA Medical Center...

看了几个MJ过去的视频  只能感慨下 Life is a paradox  毫无疑问的wei人....伟人猥人各一半...

流行之王去了 令人欣慰的是 他应该是属于自己把自己整死的...

因此可以自豪的说他是其自己生命的主宰者...其实很好 

设想一下十年后他那张脸的模样将会是件很惊悚的事　rated R

这样至少可以在恐怖来临之前 远去...　　

Forever young．．． Forever Human beings

下学期如果去Medical Center 看个感冒什么的 顺便也去悼念下流行之王.... 

Each day's a gift and not a given right

If today was your last day
And tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
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人定归本，早安眠...

GRE词汇精选入手10天 连背带混过了27个LIST

最大的成果是 在读书的时候见到一个单词 很激动地发现自己背过

至于这词什么意思 似乎却是另一回事了...

归来快要一周 为了对人民群众负责 一直在家里关禁闭

身边的一切都很亲切 回家的确是一件很惬意的事

有时在想这仅仅是一年 如果我七八年才回一次家 那会是怎么样的状况

生物钟依旧有些乱 每天早晨五点都会莫名的醒来

空气有些干燥 致使不时会流鼻血...   

一切都很和谐 除了那本GRE精选里恶心的单词们...

我很不解  难道大家都已经把里面的单词们背的很熟了吗  这件事的确很不容易 

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