I'm going to back off a wee bit on my general criticism of #YouTube "reaction videos", at least as far as Hitchcock's masterpiece "North by Northwest" (1959) is concerned.
The film blows away every reaction individual, pair, or group that I've come across watching it. In most cases, they've simply never seen a film like this before, and are staggered by it in pretty much every respect (including the fact that, of course, there's no CGI). But really everything about it impresses them, as it should. And they all are amazed at a complex plot and what is indeed a most remarkable transition at the very end, from hanging on a cliff to a berth on a train. Probably the only transition that beats it is the flying bone in "2001: A Space Odyssey."
And you also can see some of them noting with disdain that so much of what they've seen during their lives was obviously just copying of themes that originated in films like North by Northwest, and now excited to see other films from back then.
Which if nothing else, tells us how the film industry of recent decades has failed young people (yeah, and everyone else too) so dismally.
@arth Lawrence is arguably the finest overall film ever made. However, to watch it properly, it really needs to be viewed in a good theater with a fresh 70mm print and an excellent sound system. I viewed it once in such a venue with its editor Anne V. Coates in attendance. She noted there was only one process shot in the entire film (involving the sun at a very low angle, I believe). The one of a kind long lens made for the film to shoot the "arrival at the well in the desert" scene still resides, as far as I know, in the Panavision HQ lobby a short drive from where I'm sitting. It's important to remind people NO CGI in that film!
@tezoatlipoca Yeah, it was Hitch's idea. He tried it originally during production of "Rebecca" but didn't like the results. So almost 20 years later he worked with Irmin Roberts (a cameraman on "Vertigo") to make it work for that film for the James Stewart "vertigo" dizziness effect.
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