North By Northwest The Perfect Thriller

What is North By Northwest about?
North by Northwest was written by a man called Ernest Lehman and was directed by one of the most famous thriller directors ever Alfred Hitchcock in 1959. the main characters in North By Northwest are cary grant who was the most famous actor at the time of when the film was made, Eva Marie Saint and  James Mason. North By Northwest is about an ordinary called Roger O. Thornhill, who was played by Cary Grant, a cross agent played by Eva Marie Saint who has been sent on a mission to get vandam out of the country but why doing this she falls in love with cary grant. Cary Grant was mistaken for a fake spy called George Kaplan, once he was mistaken he was kidnapped by two of Mr vandam's henchmen.





Devices used:
devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively. For example Hitchcock builds suspense at the crop duster scene. Cary Grant is dropped at the side of the road waiting to meet the Mr Kaplan. why he is waiting several cars pass this builds suspense as you do not know what car Mr Kaplan is going to get out of. finally a car stops and a man gets out. Cary Grant approaches the guy and realises that he is not Mr Kaplan and that hes just a guy waiting for the bus. while he is speaking to this guy the guy points out a plan dusting crops where there is no crops. This is when the suspense increases as he crop duster plan flew directly towards him. This also follows one of the main conventions of a thriller fast frequent action.

Resourceful Hero:
This Thriller follows one of the most common thriller conventions, the resourceful hero who must thwart the plans of the more powerful and better equipped villain. For example in the auction scene Rodger Thornhill out smarts vandam as he sends his henchmen to block the exists so that thornhill cant escape the room but thornhill gets him self in trouble on purpose by making stupid bids and disrupting the auction. by doing that the police was called as the police entered the auction room thornhill punched someone so the police arrested him and he was escorted out of the building and taken by he police. this way vandam couldn't get hold of him.

Macguffin:
The Macguffin of this thriller is that the FIB or the spies care about the micro tapes but the audience only cares about what is going to happen to thornhill and if him and eve are going to be together at the end of the film.