Thematic afternoon in German
The fact that in Vertigo, Midge says to melancholy John: «Mozart is the boy for you. The broom that sweeps the cobwebs away,» takes us straight into the subject, especially as a fictional psychiatrist was said to have countered: «I don’t think Mozart’s going to help at all.» Alfred Hitchcock created a language that has shaped cinematic production to this day. He made Beethoven the choice composer of psychopaths, had Melanie play Debussy’s Arabesque on an upright piano while swarms of birds attacked Bodega Bay, and assumed that we would spot Tristan und Isolde in Annie’s bookshelf and the master himself in Strangers on a Train (with a double bass).
