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  VERTIGO (Xavier SiS)  (THE ORIGINAL TEXT BELOW)  My Word, Darryl, you squeezed a lot of juice out of that movie!  I have enjoyed the way you develop the different subjects that appear in that film. Needless to say, Hitch was at the same time both a genius  and a cheater as a director. It`s known  his misogyny and his obsession for blond actresses, even though you say  he was not too keen on Kim Novak…  I am not so sure J. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Kfyh52UiqbQ In contrast to what you think, perhaps Vera Miles would have given a good performance and would have helped to focus the plot on its psychological issues. Novak portrayed a rather sophisticated woman and she literally “devoured” the first half of the movie. Miles ( “The Wrong Man”, “Psycho”…), on the other side,  was pretty enough but perhaps she acted more like an ordinary woman. https://www.fotogramas.es/ noticias-cine/a22807400/vera- miles-hitchcock-psicosis/ Hitch’s Muses: I...

(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO) Have seen again  Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” on the big screen after more than 30 years. It was a brand new copy, so the quality of the colour and sound was good. Besides, it was shown in English with Spanish subtitles, not dubbed into Spanish as I had seen it years ago as this was the “rule” then. A few years ago I read a priceless book on Hitch by French film director, Truffaut, called “El cine según Hitchcock” in Spanish. In this book Truffaut interviewed Hitch and, when they talked about “Vertigo”, I got the impression I had missed it altogether. Well, I will quote that interview between Truffaut and Hitch in this article. Hitchcock declared, when asked about the novel on which “Vertigo” is based, that “I was intrigued by the hero’s attempts to re-create the image of a dead woman through another one who’s alive.” (1) We also learnt from that book that Hitch did not think greatly of Kim Novak (2) as originally he had conceived her role for Vera Miles ...