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I would like to point out that the movie still allows the possibibility that Maxim murdered Rebecca but lied about it. All that was changed from the novel was Maxim's STORY of what happened; we never see the actual death. Hitchcock may have outsmarted the censors after all, showing Maxim getting away with murder. CharlesTheBold —Preceding unsigned comment added by CharlesTheBold ( talk • contribs) 03:18, August 28, 2007 (UTC)
Yes, the doctor does describe his patient as a very beautiful woman. Not exactly Mrs Danvers as she appears in the film. I'm not sure about the novel. I love the film. I wanted to read the novel, but I couldn't get into it. Maybe I'd been having too much Chandler and Hammett. But I found GWTW compulsive reading. O Murr ( talk) 07:48, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Rebecca at UC Berkeley Libraries. — Erik ( talk • contrib) 00:41, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Par on Adaptation notes that there is ONE major plot change in the film's adaption of the book, and that is that Max does not murder Rebecca in the film, but instead she falls during their quarrel and dies from a head injury. This was so to be in keeping with the Hollywood Production Code's insistence that if Max murders his wife, the film must show he is duly punished for it. There is a SECOND major plot change though, and it too may be linked with concerns with the Code; in the film, Danvers dies in the fire she has created at Manderlay, but in the novel she escapes with no comeuppance. This detail is surely worth including in the "Adaptation" section.
My own experience is that I saw the film years ago and have never read the book, and I suppose that very few men would read it today. Back then, I thought that it was an obvious contrivance that Rebecca dies accidentally. I felt that there was a much more psychologically confronting drama behind the “official” narrative, and that was that Max had been deeply and obsessively in love with this femme fatale, and had murdered her through uncontrolled jealousy. I felt that if it had been plotted in this way, the movie would still have been a melodrama, but a less tinny one. It was only today that I discovered that in fact I had second-guessed du Maurier’s version and instinctively faulted Hitchcock’s in this respect. Myles325a ( talk) 05:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Is the film in black and white or in color? Kdammers ( talk) 10:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
This criterion essay says Hitchcock shot 250 000 feet of film, which was then edited by Selznick to favour medium and long shots. On the wiki article it says it was edited in camera - presumably the source for this is the book in the third reference.
I cut the plot summary down from 844 words to 666 words. Plot summaries on Wikipedia are supposed to be concise, between 400 and 700 words. Invertzoo ( talk) 18:25, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
As is already mentioned on this talk page in a note from 2010, in our article about the novel Rebecca, it says that another change between the book and the film is that in the film Danvers perishes in the fire, whereas in the book she escapes. Can someone who has access to the book please check this and include it here if this is correct? Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 12:55, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Here are additional sources for the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/07/my-favourite-alfred-hitchcock-rebecca
-- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:33, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
We know that the film was based on Daphne Du Maurier's novel, which she had already adapted into a stage play. The scriptwriters for the film were Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison. Then we have Adaptation: Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan. What does this mean? Valetude ( talk) 04:54, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
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I have seen the picture and later the DVD and I still am wondering Mister Alfred Hitchcock's business. The title is Rebeca, the woman I most respected in the old testament. But he makes a horror of that woman by picturing a "creature" shaped by Daphne du Maurier. Well it be so, but wasn't for him not better to do something else??? 145.129.136.48 ( talk) 15:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC) |
It's Mrs. Van Hopper that warns her paid companion about de Winter, not her Mother. She has no mother. -- Pete Best Beatles ( talk) 07:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Did nobody see it?
And not forget that the book maker, Daphne du Maurier, have orientietions like this. 81.20.127.64 ( talk) 00:22, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
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I would like to point out that the movie still allows the possibibility that Maxim murdered Rebecca but lied about it. All that was changed from the novel was Maxim's STORY of what happened; we never see the actual death. Hitchcock may have outsmarted the censors after all, showing Maxim getting away with murder. CharlesTheBold —Preceding unsigned comment added by CharlesTheBold ( talk • contribs) 03:18, August 28, 2007 (UTC)
Yes, the doctor does describe his patient as a very beautiful woman. Not exactly Mrs Danvers as she appears in the film. I'm not sure about the novel. I love the film. I wanted to read the novel, but I couldn't get into it. Maybe I'd been having too much Chandler and Hammett. But I found GWTW compulsive reading. O Murr ( talk) 07:48, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Rebecca at UC Berkeley Libraries. — Erik ( talk • contrib) 00:41, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Par on Adaptation notes that there is ONE major plot change in the film's adaption of the book, and that is that Max does not murder Rebecca in the film, but instead she falls during their quarrel and dies from a head injury. This was so to be in keeping with the Hollywood Production Code's insistence that if Max murders his wife, the film must show he is duly punished for it. There is a SECOND major plot change though, and it too may be linked with concerns with the Code; in the film, Danvers dies in the fire she has created at Manderlay, but in the novel she escapes with no comeuppance. This detail is surely worth including in the "Adaptation" section.
My own experience is that I saw the film years ago and have never read the book, and I suppose that very few men would read it today. Back then, I thought that it was an obvious contrivance that Rebecca dies accidentally. I felt that there was a much more psychologically confronting drama behind the “official” narrative, and that was that Max had been deeply and obsessively in love with this femme fatale, and had murdered her through uncontrolled jealousy. I felt that if it had been plotted in this way, the movie would still have been a melodrama, but a less tinny one. It was only today that I discovered that in fact I had second-guessed du Maurier’s version and instinctively faulted Hitchcock’s in this respect. Myles325a ( talk) 05:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Is the film in black and white or in color? Kdammers ( talk) 10:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
This criterion essay says Hitchcock shot 250 000 feet of film, which was then edited by Selznick to favour medium and long shots. On the wiki article it says it was edited in camera - presumably the source for this is the book in the third reference.
I cut the plot summary down from 844 words to 666 words. Plot summaries on Wikipedia are supposed to be concise, between 400 and 700 words. Invertzoo ( talk) 18:25, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
As is already mentioned on this talk page in a note from 2010, in our article about the novel Rebecca, it says that another change between the book and the film is that in the film Danvers perishes in the fire, whereas in the book she escapes. Can someone who has access to the book please check this and include it here if this is correct? Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 12:55, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Here are additional sources for the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/07/my-favourite-alfred-hitchcock-rebecca
-- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:33, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
We know that the film was based on Daphne Du Maurier's novel, which she had already adapted into a stage play. The scriptwriters for the film were Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison. Then we have Adaptation: Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan. What does this mean? Valetude ( talk) 04:54, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Random musings by IP unrelated to improving the article.
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I have seen the picture and later the DVD and I still am wondering Mister Alfred Hitchcock's business. The title is Rebeca, the woman I most respected in the old testament. But he makes a horror of that woman by picturing a "creature" shaped by Daphne du Maurier. Well it be so, but wasn't for him not better to do something else??? 145.129.136.48 ( talk) 15:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC) |
It's Mrs. Van Hopper that warns her paid companion about de Winter, not her Mother. She has no mother. -- Pete Best Beatles ( talk) 07:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Did nobody see it?
And not forget that the book maker, Daphne du Maurier, have orientietions like this. 81.20.127.64 ( talk) 00:22, 7 October 2022 (UTC)