Vertigo then and now: "before and after images of various San Francisco locations used in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece." (via fimoculous)
San Francisco of my early childhood in the 60s did not look much different. "Vertigo," when I saw it in college, summed up the feeling I always had in San Francisco as a child, similar to the way "Chinatown" hit a familiar mood I had experienced in Los Angeles in my adolescence.
In the film, as in these pictures, there's a sense that the city is almost empty, except for Stewart and Judy/Carlotta. It is, in the mind of the character played by JStewart--All is "Carlotta."
I had the sense--that the city looked like a real city, such as Chicago (city of my grandparents), but scaled down, and with fewer people than buildings. A sense of a deserted city, sometimes: those empty, pretty horizons that look so heroic from afar, are just the bridges to Marin County or Oakland up close.
Harold and Maude is another SF bay area flashback.
The south bay in particular seems like a simpler, more innocent place in these 1971 images.
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- jim 4-08-2003 1:08 am
San Francisco of my early childhood in the 60s did not look much different. "Vertigo," when I saw it in college, summed up the feeling I always had in San Francisco as a child, similar to the way "Chinatown" hit a familiar mood I had experienced in Los Angeles in my adolescence.
In the film, as in these pictures, there's a sense that the city is almost empty, except for Stewart and Judy/Carlotta. It is, in the mind of the character played by JStewart--All is "Carlotta."
I had the sense--that the city looked like a real city, such as Chicago (city of my grandparents), but scaled down, and with fewer people than buildings. A sense of a deserted city, sometimes: those empty, pretty horizons that look so heroic from afar, are just the bridges to Marin County or Oakland up close.
- bunny 4-08-2003 6:03 pm [add a comment]
Harold and Maude is another SF bay area flashback. The south bay in particular seems like a simpler, more innocent place in these 1971 images.
- mark 4-10-2003 9:01 am [add a comment]