#78 on Thrills
Hey hey now! A blog post! What is this mysterious thing, long forgotten? I failed miserably at reaching my year goal in 2012 for the list, so I'm going to try to make up for it in 2013 by being more consistent with both my watching and my blogging. Wish me luck, faithful readers!
Lets start off the year with the psychological thriller,
Gaslight. I always find suspense, and psychological thrillers to be so
much more frightening than gore and horror. Because the things in a
psychological thriller like Gaslight? could foreseeably happen. And we all know
that reality is scarier than any fiction.
Gaslight tells the story of Paula, who's aunt was a famous opera singer. The film starts after Paula's aunt is murdered, with Paula is trying to start over. She meets and falls in love with Gregory. They get married, and move back into the home where her aunt was murdered. Suddenly things start to go missing. Gregory is insisting that Paula herself is taking and losing the items, but she has no recollection of doing such things. Is it all in her mind? Or is something more sinister going on? (The answer is yes. Something more sinister is ALWAYS going on….)
Gaslight tells the story of Paula, who's aunt was a famous opera singer. The film starts after Paula's aunt is murdered, with Paula is trying to start over. She meets and falls in love with Gregory. They get married, and move back into the home where her aunt was murdered. Suddenly things start to go missing. Gregory is insisting that Paula herself is taking and losing the items, but she has no recollection of doing such things. Is it all in her mind? Or is something more sinister going on? (The answer is yes. Something more sinister is ALWAYS going on….)
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| Beautiful, but crazy. Or crazy, but beautiful? |
Ingrid Bergman is looking gorgeous, as usual. I find that she always plays characters that terrible things happen to (or at least in the films I’ve seen). She plays these tragic characters so well, though. Bergman must have been doing something right, because she won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role (her first).
This film marks Angela Lansbury's film debut, as a maid. That would come full circle for her, when she became a tea pot….
Fun Facts: Gaslight was originally a play, and has a few film adaptations. When this version came out, MGM apparently tried to destroy all the prints of the 1940 version. Luckily, they were unsuccessful. Gaslighting is now used as a term in clinical and research literature for psychology, the phenomenon coming from this story.
Favorite Quote:
Gregory
Anton: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me.
Brian
Cameron: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.
