A Summary And Analysis Of Elements In North By Northwest
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The scene in North by Northwest where a drunken Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is trying to escape from his kidnappers, Leonard (Martin Landau) and Valerian (Adam Williams), on a curvy, cliff road is suspenseful and sinister. An important element that North by Northwest uses to convey suspense and anxiety in this scene is the editing. It is edited according to the urgency of the character’s actions. It only seems natural that the more intense and frantic an action is, the faster pace of shots. This element is used quite frequently in North by Northwest. When Thornhill is drunk (after Phillip Van Damm’s henchmen force bourbon into him) and he is about to drive off a cliff, the shots of his terrified face and the edge of the cliff go by faster