![]() Hitler too, it turned out, found these ideas to as be a perfect excuse for wholesale death. Imagining themselves to be Nietzsche’s “Supermen,” they considered the killing of a child to be a demonstration of intellectual superiority, and got life sentences for their troubles (Loeb was murdered in prison Leopold was paroled in ’58).Ĭomparatively, the movie version of Rope is set after the Second World War, which muddies the concepts of Nietzsche and the Übermensch in popular culture. Both considered gifted young intellects and child prodigies, the two became the epicenter of “the Crime of the Century” when after their first year at the University of Chicago, they abducted and murdered 14-year-old Robert Franks in 1924 in an attempt to execute the perfect crime. That play was in turn inspired by the infamous blue blood murderers Nathan Leopold Jr. Rope was adapted by Hume Cronyn and screenwriter Arthur Laurents from Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play of the same name. And he is at least correct to point out that it is not a 1:1 comparison Rope aspires to appear as if it is all occurring in real-time whereas Birdman embraces a self-aware use of time elapsing dissolves and magical realism that defies our perceptions of what is actually occurring in the narrative. Roger Ebert even asserted that Hitch was apparently happy that the film was rarely revived or revisited in the ensuing three decades.įurther Iñárritu, whose movie is far more aggressively fantastical than Hitch’s use of long takes, personally disdains the comparisons, stating he considers Rope to be terrible. Conversely, Rope was largely dismissed upon its release in 1948 as a gimmick and then was mostly ignored during the rest of Hitchcock’s life. For starters, Birdman is the far bigger triumph that led to Iñárritu proudly taking home the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. Granted, there are also major differences. Iñárritu’s majestic and strangely hypnotic Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Hitchcock also famously attempted the magic trick of a seemingly uninterrupted moviegoing experience. ![]()
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