Analysis : Marnie Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie Opening Credits

 Dramatic music, building a small amount of suspense. Short fast notes, with a high pitched tone. This combined with the violins creating tones almost as if it were somebody screaming, this makes the viewer feel on edge and out of their comfort zone. As the title continues the music builds. As soon as the title of "Marnie" appears the music changes and becomes softer, it becomes more romantic sounding.

-Scene One-

 When the music stops and the actual picture starts, there is no music the only sound is of a woman walking and the sound of high heels on the concrete. When it focuses on her, you can see that the picture is purposely dull, grey / brown colours, but apart from the bag which she is holding, which is a bright yellow colour. There is an added enigma as the appearance of the woman holding the bag but you’re unable to see her face.

-Scene Two-

 There is juxtaposition from the scene changing from the woman holding the bag to when it jumps to a close up of a Mr Strat, shouting the word robbed, this is done where by he is practically saying it straight at the camera. He repeats the woman’s name twice, which is Marine Holland. We now know that the money is in that yellow bag by the way it has been depicted in the first scene. After this has happened Mr Strat speaks the woman's name whom told the money, which would be Marian Holland. The way in which this was done almost makes the viewer remember her name. When asked to describe the woman, he finds it hard to describe the woman because she is attractive. We already know that the description matched the woman we first saw in the first scene.

 Panning across the scene to the two main characters, Shaun has purposely been made bigger to convey visual hierarchy this tells the view that a more dominant presence has entered. The viewer can see that Mr Rutland and Mr strat are talking about the robbery where Rutland realises who Strat is talking about and is quiet sexist when speaking about her. He referees to her as 'The one with the legs' which it without a doubt degrading. Whilst he’s looking away from the camera, and describing Marian, this conveys the fact that he’s day-dreaming about the woman.

-Scene Three-

Switching back to the earlier scene, you see the woman again holding the yellow bag but still unable to see her face, this shot mirrors the first shot from the first scene. As she is is walking we notice that she is in a hotel as she is walking down a corridor with rooms either side with a bellboy holding her luggage, as they are approching the end of the hallway Hitchcock walks out of one of the hotel rooms. Of course this is usual for almost all Hitchcock films since he likes to feature himself in his films.

-Scene Four-

As the you see in the next scene calm music gradually progressing throughout the scene. We can see her wrapping her clothes up, placing them in separate suitcases and placing some neat and some untidy. We later see her open the yellow bag, the one that we've seen in both scenes before hand, and we see her take the money out an throw it in a suitcase. But also we see her remove the change her ID, and selecting from multiple fake ID cards.

In the last scene we can see the woman walking through what looks to be a train station. We see her go lock away her old clothes, along with her old ID badge and clothes as well as taking the key given to her when she locks away her clothes and then dropping the key through a grate so that it’ll be harder to find her identity.