The Big chill

the Big chill ( High Anxiety in English) is an American film left in 1977 and carried out by Mel Brooks.

It is a Parodie films with Suspense, more particularly of films of Alfred Hitchcock - to which the film is dedicated - and mainly of its film Cold sweats .

Synopsis

Doctor Richard H. Thorndyke (Mel Brooks), celebrates Nobel Prize Psychiatrie, is named with the direction of a psychiatric asylum of Los Angeles whose director died in a mysterious way. The eminent psychiatrist discovers little by little the patients and the doctors who seem to hide something to him.

Victim of a machination at the time of a congress with San Francisco, Thorndyke will have to face its acute crises of anxiety for to prove its innocence.

Distribution

Data sheet

  • French Title: The Big chill
  • original Title: High Anxiety
  • Realization: Mel Brooks
  • Scenario: Mel Brooks, Ron Clarke, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson
  • Production: Mel Brooks
  • Music: John Morris
  • Production company: 20th Century Fox
  • Photography: Paul Lohmann
  • Assembly: John C. Howard
  • Lasted: 94 minutes

References

The film contains many references to various films. Films of Alfred Hitchcock:

  • the House of Doctor Edwardes : The main theme is also a psychiatric asylum

  • Cold sweats : One finds different place of San Francisco in two films (the Baie of San Francisco, the Golden Spoils Bridge), even graphics of the poster of film, Victoria Brisbane carries a gray costume similar to that which Madeleine carries.
  • Psychosis : Famous scene of the shower
  • parodies the Birds : Scene parodies where the birds gather behind the hero
  • Death with the cases : The name of Richard H. Thorndyke is taken again name of the hero, Roger O. Thornhill (who, unlike Thorndyke, will never reveal its second first name)
  • the Man who knew of it too
  • the Curtain torn : Professor Lilloman is similar to professor Gustav Lindt, the German scientist.
  • the leather Mask : When professor Lilloman tries to overcome the acute anxiety of Thorndyke by the Hypnose, those start a combat of Boxe.
  • the 39 steps : When Victoria comes in the hotel room, she asks Thorndyke to move towards the window and firm the curtains, then she embraces it when somebody returns, scene similar to that of the train.
  • Suspicions : Before the death of Wentworth, the trellis-work of the window creates a shade behind him similar to a Cobweb.
  • Connected the
  • the Lovers of the Capricorn
  • the crime was almost perfect : The combat in the phone box is similar to that of Grace Kelly: She is almost strangled is the interlocutor can hear only noises of fight. In both cases the person is stabbed in the back. The images on the wall of the office of professor Lilloman are another allusion.
  • the False Culprit
  • Frenzy : Thorndyke hides in the park and calls since the phone box.
  • Plot of family : The radio of the too strong car.
  • Rebecca : The severe Diesel nurse points out Mrs Danvers.

Doctor Montague employs the pseudonym of " Mr. MacGuffin" to change the hotel room of Thorndyke of the second to the seventeenth stages. The term of " MacGuffin " was employed by Hitchcock to indicate an object being used to start the intrigue then losing its importance during film.

Other films:

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : The name and the behavior of the Diesel nurse point out tyrannical Miss Ratched.

  • the Magician of OZ : With the end, when the Diesel nurse falls from the tower, it holds a brush and laughs like the Malicious Witch.
  • the Spy who liked me : The assassin with metal pilot wheels on its teeth.
  • Blow-Up : Multiple photographic enlargements of Brophy, similar to those of Thomas in film of Antonioni.

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