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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Scottie, after Elster tells him about Madeleine's relationship to (and seeming possession by) Carlotta Valdes.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Scottie, after Elster tells him about Madeleine's relationship to (and seeming possession by) Carlotta Valdes.
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** Early on, Elster asks Scottie is he believed somebody of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living being. Scottie denies but this is precisely what's gonna happen to him later.
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** Early on, Elster asks Scottie is he believed somebody of the past, believes someone dead, can dead could enter and take possession of a living being. Scottie denies is incredulous, but this is precisely what's gonna happen to him later.what he encounters later [[spoiler: but not really]].
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* AdaptationalTitleChange: The movie is based on a French novel that was called ''D'entre les morts'' (literally "From Among the Dead" but [[CompletelyDifferentTitle localized as]] "The Living and the Dead").
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* AdaptationalTitleChange: AdaptationTitleChange: The movie is based on a French novel that was called ''D'entre les morts'' (literally "From Among the Dead" but [[CompletelyDifferentTitle localized as]] "The Living and the Dead").
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* StairwellChase: The first scene in the belltower.
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* StairwellChase: The first scene in the belltower.belltower sees Scottie chasing after a suicidal Madeleine up the tower, all while fighting against his ever-growing terror of heights.
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* IdiotBall: The plot comes apart because Judy kept the necklace [[spoiler:Ellster gave her in order to pose as Madeleine]]. If she'd disposed of it, Scottie might never have realised the plot.
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* IdiotBall: The plot comes apart because Judy kept the necklace [[spoiler:Ellster [[spoiler:Elster gave her in order to pose as Madeleine]]. If she'd disposed of it, Scottie might never have realised the plot.
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* PrivateDetective: Scottie Ferguson is a former police detective convinced by Ellster to do one last job for him. Scottie even suggests some other private eyes to help his friend out, but since Elsster needs someone he can trust, Scottie is the one tailing people, researching leads, and interrogating people.
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* PrivateDetective: Scottie Ferguson is a former police detective convinced by Ellster Elster to do one last job for him. Scottie even suggests some other private eyes to help his friend out, but since Elsster Elster needs someone he can trust, Scottie is the one tailing people, researching leads, and interrogating people.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Sums up Scottie's entire relationship with Judy.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Sums up Scottie's entire relationship with Judy. Scottie molds the brunette Judy into the image of the elegant blond Madeleine after the latter woman breaks his heart.
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* PrivateDetective: Scottie Ferguson, after he left the police, although he's not a professional and only does it as a favour to Ellster.
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* PrivateDetective: Scottie Ferguson, after Ferguson is a former police detective convinced by Ellster to do one last job for him. Scottie even suggests some other private eyes to help his friend out, but since Elsster needs someone he left can trust, Scottie is the police, although he's not a professional one tailing people, researching leads, and only does it as a favour to Ellster.interrogating people.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Midge is Red, Scottie is Blue. Judy is Red, Madeleine is Blue.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: For [[spoiler:Judy]] in the end.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: For [[spoiler:Judy]] in the end.
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* AdaptationalTitleChange: The movie is based on a French novel that was called ''D'entre les morts'' (literally "From Among the Dead" but [[CompletelyDifferentTitle localized as]] "The Living and the Dead").
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Check out the poster for the movie as [[https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/original-film-posters-online/vertigo-zawrot-glowy-1958-first-polish-release as it appeared in Poland]] compared to [[http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/92010a/vertigonov10.jpg the original.]] Polish designers are famous for making their movie posters much edgier than the original and this stays true here.
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Check out the poster for the movie as [[https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/original-film-posters-online/vertigo-zawrot-glowy-1958-first-polish-release as it appeared in Poland]] compared to [[http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/92010a/vertigonov10.jpg the original.]] Polish designers are famous for making their movie posters much edgier than the original and this stays true here.
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* AnimatedCreditsOpening: This was actually the first film to ultilize a digitally crafted title sequence (designed by Creator/SaulBass), as the effects in the sequence were done on a computer converted from an old anti-aircraft locator by effects artist John Whitney.
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* AnimatedCreditsOpening: This was actually the first film to ultilize utilize a digitally crafted title sequence (designed by Creator/SaulBass), as the effects in the sequence were done on a computer converted from an old anti-aircraft locator by effects artist John Whitney.
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* BettyAndVeronica: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] and played with in fascinating ways. Madeleine is the Betty, even after she dies, while Judy is the Veronica that Scottie makes over in Madeleine's image.
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* BettyAndVeronica: BettyAndVeronica:
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] and played with in fascinating ways. Madeleine is the Betty, even after she dies, while Judy is the Veronica that Scottie makes over in Madeleine's image.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] and played with in fascinating ways. Madeleine is the Betty, even after she dies, while Judy is the Veronica that Scottie makes over in Madeleine's image.
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** Gavin Elster disappears midway as well after Madeleine's death was declared a suicide. We never find out if anyone finds out the truth his plan. Although, there's an alternate ending where he fled to Switzerland and gets caught by the authorities.
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** Gavin Elster disappears midway as well after Madeleine's death was declared a suicide. We never find out if anyone finds out the truth his plan. Although, there's an alternate ending where he fled to Switzerland and gets caught by the authorities. And Midge is also featured in that one.
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* ComplexityAddiction: It's easy to overlook amidst all of Scottie's psychodrama, but [[spoiler:Elster's plot to murder his wife]] has to be one of the most implausibly convoluted in film history, requiring [[spoiler:a woman who's an IdenticalStranger to Mrs. Elster, a knowledge of her family's history, a friend with a fear of heights to act as a patsy, an acute understanding of his thought processes, and access to a church's bell tower, and it could all have been sunk easily had Scottie done even a cursory amount of sleuthing beyond simply following Madeleine around]].
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* ComplexityAddiction: It's easy to overlook amidst all of Scottie's psychodrama, but [[spoiler:Elster's plot to murder his wife]] has to be one of the most implausibly convoluted in film history, requiring [[spoiler:a woman who's an IdenticalStranger to Mrs. Elster, a Madeleine, knowledge of her family's history, the stories of Madeleine's ancestors, a friend with a fear of heights to act as a patsy, an acute understanding of his thought processes, and access to a church's bell tower, and it could all have been sunk easily had Scottie done even a cursory amount of sleuthing beyond simply following Madeleine around]].
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* ComplexityAddiction: It's easy to overlook amidst all of Scottie's psychodrama, but [[spoiler:Elster's plot to murder his wife]] has to be one of the most implausibly convoluted in film history.
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* ComplexityAddiction: It's easy to overlook amidst all of Scottie's psychodrama, but [[spoiler:Elster's plot to murder his wife]] has to be one of the most implausibly convoluted in film history.history, requiring [[spoiler:a woman who's an IdenticalStranger to Mrs. Elster, a knowledge of her family's history, a friend with a fear of heights to act as a patsy, an acute understanding of his thought processes, and access to a church's bell tower, and it could all have been sunk easily had Scottie done even a cursory amount of sleuthing beyond simply following Madeleine around]].
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A classic 1958 PsychologicalThriller directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock, adapted from the 1954 French novel ''D'entre les morts'' (''The Living and the Dead'') by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
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A classic 1958 PsychologicalThriller directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock, adapted from the 1954 French novel ''D'entre les morts'' (''The ("The Living and the Dead'') Dead") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: Judy and Scottie embrace passionately. . .the next scene is of him waiting for her to finish dressing for dinner. It's not hard to imagine that they had sex in the unseen interim.
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** Judy's reaction when Scottie knocks on her door. Sure, she seems suspicious and annoyed, but she easily could've just said "get lost!" and slammed the door on him, rather than let him in. And her sassy attitude toward an obviously troubled man seems insensitive [[spoiler:until you know that she's secretly overjoyed that he found her again and she's trying maybe a bit too hard not to show it]].
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** Judy's reaction when Scottie knocks on her door. Sure, she seems suspicious and annoyed, but she easily could've just said "get lost!" and slammed the door on him, rather than let him in. And her sassy attitude toward an obviously troubled man seems insensitive [[spoiler:until you know that she's secretly overjoyed that he found her again and she's trying maybe a bit too hard not to show it]].it, since she's not sure if he's figured out the truth yet--her mean act is a SecretTestOfCharacter to make sure that Scottie's really interested in her and not suspicious; once she's satisfied that he's being genuine, she warms to up him]].
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Scottie suffers a mental breakdown after his love's death, to the point of being institutionalized with a near-catatonic depression and "nursed" by his friend and former fiancée Midge (Barbara Bel Geddes). Even after returning to some semblance of a normal life, he's haunted by grief for Madeleine, constantly seeing her in women he meets. It turns out that there is one woman who really does look a lot like Madeleine: a sharp-tongued brunette named Judy Barton (Novak again). Still haunted by the memory of his dead love, Scottie pursues a relationship with Judy. But the ghosts of the past never die, and their consequences prove to be what no one expected...
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Scottie suffers a mental breakdown after his love's death, to the point of being institutionalized with a near-catatonic depression and "nursed" by his friend and former fiancée Midge (Barbara Bel Geddes).(Creator/BarbaraBelGeddes). Even after returning to some semblance of a normal life, he's haunted by grief for Madeleine, constantly seeing her in women he meets. It turns out that there is one woman who really does look a lot like Madeleine: a sharp-tongued brunette named Judy Barton (Novak again). Still haunted by the memory of his dead love, Scottie pursues a relationship with Judy. But the ghosts of the past never die, and their consequences prove to be what no one expected...
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* BrieferThanTheyThink: As in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', the part of the movie that everyone remembers is actually the last act rather than the main storyline--Judy Barton only appears in the final 36 minutes of the film.
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* VoiceoverLetter: We hear Judy's voice as she writes her letter to Scottie.
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* RuleOfSymbolism:
**The phrase "fall in love" takes on a double meaning in the film both literal and figurative. Characters are always falling off buildings in Hitchcock's film: Scottie's colleague, Elster's wife, Judy Barton, Scottie himself in his bad dream midway through the movie. However, the main fall, the one the whole film depends on, is Scottie's falling in love with a woman who's obsessed with death. This take on "fall" is treated as being just as lethal as actual falls.
**In a key scene, Scottie and Madeleine visit California's Muir Woods National Park. Madeleine is enthralled by the giant redwoods, but suddenly Carlotta's spirit takes over. She walks to a cross-section of one of the trees that illustrates all the ring markings with the dates in history that the different rings were formed. She shows Scottie when "she" was born and when she died. The trees, whose average age in Muir Woods is about 600 years old, are meant to represent the ancient past. They're one of the film's many visual symbols of the past, like the old Mission Dolores and Mission San Juan Bautista, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the graveyards that Madeleine visits. Even Madeleine's name is symbolic. In Marcel Proust's uber-famous memoir ''Remembrance of Things Past'', the pastry that uncorks his 3000-page flood of memories was called a madeleine.
**From the opening titles to the bun in Madeleine's hair, swirly shapes (or spirals) are everywhere in the film. The camera swirls around Judy and Scottie as his mind goes spinning back to his memories of Madeleine. These swirls are like whirlpools. They signal danger. The policeman who dies trying to save Scottie falls to his death with his limbs splayed out in a spiral. The spiral staircase at the mission is a stairway to doom. The visual images all support the theme of the film—the dizzying distortion of reality when you're under the influence... of love.
**The phrase "fall in love" takes on a double meaning in the film both literal and figurative. Characters are always falling off buildings in Hitchcock's film: Scottie's colleague, Elster's wife, Judy Barton, Scottie himself in his bad dream midway through the movie. However, the main fall, the one the whole film depends on, is Scottie's falling in love with a woman who's obsessed with death. This take on "fall" is treated as being just as lethal as actual falls.
**In a key scene, Scottie and Madeleine visit California's Muir Woods National Park. Madeleine is enthralled by the giant redwoods, but suddenly Carlotta's spirit takes over. She walks to a cross-section of one of the trees that illustrates all the ring markings with the dates in history that the different rings were formed. She shows Scottie when "she" was born and when she died. The trees, whose average age in Muir Woods is about 600 years old, are meant to represent the ancient past. They're one of the film's many visual symbols of the past, like the old Mission Dolores and Mission San Juan Bautista, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the graveyards that Madeleine visits. Even Madeleine's name is symbolic. In Marcel Proust's uber-famous memoir ''Remembrance of Things Past'', the pastry that uncorks his 3000-page flood of memories was called a madeleine.
**From the opening titles to the bun in Madeleine's hair, swirly shapes (or spirals) are everywhere in the film. The camera swirls around Judy and Scottie as his mind goes spinning back to his memories of Madeleine. These swirls are like whirlpools. They signal danger. The policeman who dies trying to save Scottie falls to his death with his limbs splayed out in a spiral. The spiral staircase at the mission is a stairway to doom. The visual images all support the theme of the film—the dizzying distortion of reality when you're under the influence... of love.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: It's easy to forget that the sweet, vulnerable Judy was [[spoiler:part of Elster's conspiracy to murder the ''real'' Madeleine and cause Scottie incredible suffering.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: It's easy to forget that the sweet, vulnerable Judy was [[spoiler:part of Elster's conspiracy to murder the ''real'' Madeleine and cause Madeleine, causing Scottie incredible suffering.enormous suffering in the process.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: It's easy to forget that the sweet, vulnerable Judy was [[spoiler:part of Elster's conspiracy to murder the ''real'' Madeleine and make Scottie the scapegoat.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: It's easy to forget that the sweet, vulnerable Judy was [[spoiler:part of Elster's conspiracy to murder the ''real'' Madeleine and make cause Scottie the scapegoat.incredible suffering.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Gavin]] knew that Scottie's acrophobia would prevent him from [[spoiler: stopping "Madeleine's" final fake-suicide]]. Not as overtly explained (and less plausibly), they also evidently knew that [[spoiler: Scottie's reaction to hearing "Madeleine's" dream would be to take her to the mission]].
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Gavin]] knew that Scottie's acrophobia would prevent him from [[spoiler: stopping "Madeleine's" final fake-suicide]]. Not as overtly explained (and less plausibly), they also evidently knew that [[spoiler: Scottie's reaction to hearing "Madeleine's" dream would be to take her to the mission]].mission and that Scottie would never get a chance to get a closer look at the real Madeleine's body or picture]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Heights for Scottie.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Heights for Scottie. [[spoiler: And it's not only a justified trope - in fact, it's practically the only reason why it had to be Scottie in the first place.]]
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** In addition to the heading into the church, Madeleine asks him to let her go into the church alone. This could be seen also as [[spoiler: Judy trying to keep Scottie from falling into the trap of making him witness the "suicide" and trying to stop Gavin's plan from being complete. When she tells him in the last scene that she wanted to stop it, that what she was telling him may have been the truth.]]
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** In addition to the heading into the church, Madeleine asks him to let her go into the church alone. This could be seen also as [[spoiler: Judy trying to keep Scottie from falling into the trap of making him witness the "suicide" and trying to stop Gavin's plan from being complete. When she tells him in the last scene that she wanted to stop it, that what she was telling him may have been the truth.]]
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* SceneryPorn: The film's visual treatment of 1950s San Francisco should qualify as "urban scenery porn" if there is such a category. And there are lots of shots of beautiful Northern California countryside, as Scottie and Midge visit Muir Woods and Mission San Juan Bautista.
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* SceneryPorn: The film's visual treatment of 1950s San Francisco should qualify as "urban scenery porn" if there is such a category. And there are lots of shots of beautiful Northern California countryside, as Scottie and Midge Madeleine visit Muir Woods and Mission San Juan Bautista.
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* WanderingWalkOfMadness: In the backstory to Vertigo, Carlotta Valdes went mad after her child was taken from her, and took to aimlessly wandering the streets of San Francisco in a confused daze, continuously asking passers-by if they'd seen her child. So, when Madeleine Elster begins suffering fugues in which she journeys to locations that were important to the long-dead Carlotta, it's assumed that she's either inherited her ancestor's madness or possessed by her spirit - either way worrying, given that Carlotta committed suicide. [[spoiler: The big twist is that she's neither insane nor possessed, and isn't actually Madeleine at all: she's an actress hired by Gavin Elster to pose as his wife and feign insanity - just so it won't look strange when the real Madeleine turns up dead of an apparent suicide.]]
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* MinimalistCast: ''Vertigo'' has a pretty small cast. There's Scottie, Maledeine, Judy, Midge, Gavin, and a handful of minor characters that get like one scene each.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Sort of. [[spoiler:Judy was an accomplice to murder and has become The Atoner; she falls to her death at the end of the film.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Scottie conquers his acrophobia....only for his love to die ''for real'' this time as a result of his actions.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Gavin gets to go scott-free with his crimes, while his partner-in-crime and lover, Judy/Madeleine, tries to repent and pays for it.]] This notably led to the Hays Code demanding an alternate ending, which was shot but never released.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Gavin Elster is never punished for murdering his wife.]] This notably led to the Hays Code demanding an alternate ending, which was shot but never released.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Gavin never repents and getsto go scott-free with off scot-free for his crimes, while his partner-in-crime and lover, Judy/Madeleine, tries to repent and pays for it.]] This notably led to the Hays Code demanding an alternate ending, which was shot but never released.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Gavin never repents and gets
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* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:Madeleine Elster]] appears to be a major character during the first half of the film, but is actually an imposter. The only time we see the real article is as a dead body whose neck has been broken.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Judy meets the same fate as her sham Madeleine persona.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Judy regrets her role in the murder plot and gets cold feet by the time she reaches the top of the bell tower. She attempts to stop Elster’s plan by screaming, but it’s too late.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Midge's comment that "only another emotional shock" could cure Scottie's acrophobia foreshadows the final shot of the film.
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** Early on, Elster asks Scottie is he believed somebody of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living being. Scottie denies but this is precisely what's gonna happen to him later.
** Midge's comment that "only another emotional shock" could cure Scottie's acrophobia foreshadows the final shot of the film.
** Early on, Elster asks Scottie is he believed somebody of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living being. Scottie denies but this is precisely what's gonna happen to him later.
** Midge's comment that "only another emotional shock" could cure Scottie's acrophobia foreshadows the final shot of the film.
