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[the night watchman]

After Marnie flopped, Hitch began developing a project with writer Benn Levy, which would be more graphically violent and sexually explicit than any of his previous movies. The movie was initially called Frenzy, but is now ususally refered to by its alternate title Kaleidoscope to avoid confusion, and was apparently inspired by the style of the giallo which was emerging from Italy at the time. A rough draft emerged before the studio shot the project down. Does anyone know if this script ever surfaced on the Web?

Some brief comments about Kaleidoscope's giallo influence can be found here, and more detailed discussion of its origins and early development can be found here.
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That's very cool, I did not know that. It would have been awesome to see Hitchcock attempt a giallo!
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[the night watchman]

I think so, too. I suspect Kaleidoscope would have been a hit, like Psycho was a hit, and for the same reasons.
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"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."

-David Cronenberg

[HoRRoRFaN]

After reading both of the articles entirely, this project would have been his most daring, maybe even surpassing ROPE's one-shot technique.
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[beltmann]

Of course, Rope only had the appearance of being a single shot. Takes lasted for an entire 10-minute reel, and cuts were creatively camouflaged, via invisible wipes, etc. Although I adore Rope in terms of story--it's actually one of my favorite Hitchcocks--I've never thought of it as particularly "daring." Reviewers spend an awful lot of time fawning over the long takes, but to me that's rather reductive, a hollow response to a movie that has fairly complex psychological intricacies--if there's anything "daring" about Rope, it's in the way it asks audiences to follow the lead of two young psychopaths and identify with their predicament.

Kaleidoscope, eh? I'm skeptical whether Hitch could have pulled off a giallo-style picture at that stage of his career, but that's a great title, at the very least.

Eric
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