Key Points
- Characters
- Love
- Location
- Music
Characters
- Madeleine – Suicide, ideal woman, romance, difference from other romantic leads, who she is to Scottie, as a fetish object
- Scottie – Emasculation, James Stewart as the romantic lead, love, fetishism and possession.
- Midge – Who is she to Scottie, could she in fact be his idea woman? Does she affect his relationship with Madeleine?
Love
- Fetishism
- Possession and fear
- Scottie and Madeleine
- Scottie and Midge
- Romantic Love
- Obsessive Love
Location
- Madeleine – Historical, religious, spiritual, tower, suicide.
- Scottie – Tower, vertigo, ‘The Vertigo Shot’, emasculation.
Music
- Romance
- Tension
- Strings
- Brass
- Climax
- Denouement
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