{"id":2159,"date":"2012-01-16T06:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"Been studying Kim Novak's hair in Vertigo again. Hitchcock seems to have been set on using it as a character; these loving close ups make it obvious. Many shots are composed around her hairstyles [all delicate wigs] and often the lens in focused on the ha"},"modified":"2015-03-06T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:44:32","slug":"vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/2012\/01\/16\/vertigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been studying Kim Novak’s hair in Vertigo again. Hitchcock seems to have been set on using it as a character; these loving close ups make it obvious. Many shots are composed around her hairstyles [all delicate wigs] and often the lens in focused on the hair, not the face, keeping the rest of the frame in a depth of field haze. The swirled chignon isn’t mere decoration, it’s structured like a dizzying vortex leading into a dark hole. When she’s in control seducing Scotty, not a single hair is out of place, even on a windy hilltop. When she needs to inspire Scotty’s sympathy and protection, her hair is at its most vulnerable, sad wet tendrils crying on her back. Her hair is a character in the diabolical plot against dazzled, naive, horny Scotty.<\/p>\n

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Not gone with the wind. Elnett-ed to infinity.
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Sad, confused chignon.
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Ready for its close up. One of many.
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\nAnother miracle of senses is inspired by the two different shots used when Scotty sees Madeleine for the first time. This scene was reshot after filming had been completed [Novak had looked in the camera by mistake] and bears signs of inevitable slips in continuity. Can you guess which is the latter version? It’s the one with the redder background.
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Judy is a mere brunette, a lesser breed. She knows it. “I’m just a girl.”
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As Judy, she disappears into the background. She has no light.
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“I don’t care about me anymore.”
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On a parting note, meet Kim’s wig head, on which Max Factor created these Vertigo wigs.
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Been studying Kim Novak’s hair in Vertigo again. Hitchcock seems to have been set on using it as a character; these loving close ups make it obvious. Many shots are composed around her hairstyles [all delicate wigs] and often the lens in focused on the hair, not the face, keeping the rest of the frame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donteverloveme.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}