Short: Key to Reserva
Penguin December 15th, 2007
What if you found 3 pages of an old, unproduced Hitchcock screenplay? What if you were Martin Scorsese?
The short film is fabulous and mimics the style, tone, and pacing of Hitchcock to a “t”. It shows just how great a master Hitchcock was.
But, part of me wonders if Scorsese really did find those pages. It just seems so set up, and the circumstances around having only 3 pages, with one missing, of a script? Sounds kind of unlikely. And I think part of us wants to believe that it really is Hitchcock, because he’s no longer with us making great cinema.
In the end, does it really matter if it was Hitchcock or not? I think it does. Just like when Blair Witch tried to pass itself off as something that really happened. Or Fargo with it’s “this is a true story” tag at the beginning of the film. That belief that it’s true gives the writer permission to do certain things that you (as the audience) wouldn’t believe in the first place.
Had it Scorsese just come out and said, “I’m going to do this thing, but in the style of Hitchcock”, people would be interested, but we would be judging Scorsese’s work. By presenting it the way he did, we give it so much more because we want to believe the lie.
And sometimes, for that split second, the lie is perfect.
That is, until you find out it’s an ad.
-Penguin
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I love picking out the references! And Scorsese’s eyebrows are fabulous!!
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Ninja