Movies (On The Waterfront | Rope | Rebecca)

On The Waterfront (1954)

Is it funny that I thought there would be actual boxing in this movie given the "I coulda been a contender" line the film is famous for?

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Rope (1948)

I've been rewatching Pretty Little Liars, and planning to consume more of the show's inspirations/references/allusions, and so of course, there's Hitchcock. I've only seen Rear Window and Vertigo. The more recent of those was 9 years ago. The plan is to go through a list of Hitchcock's films and watch in chronological order the ones whose names I recognized.

Which leads me to Rope, a film that has absolutely no connection to PLL, but I've heard about forever as the one where the heavily implied gay couple murder a guy together. What I didn't know was that they also leave the body in their apartment, where they immediately host a dinner party for murdered dude's family and mutual friends.

That part's not a spoiler, this is all known in the first five minutes.

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Rebecca (1940)

So, I realized I missed Rebecca when scanning the list of Hitchcock films, hence watching Rope first. But someone reminded me of this film recently, and it does come up a little in Sleep No More, and so I gave it a watch.

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