Brincando aos clássicos (Vol. 9)

Rope, de Alfred Hitchcock

"We killed for the sake of danger and for the sake of killing."

Rope is Alfred Hitchcock's first color film.

The movie has only nine different takes.

Although the film lasts 80 minutes and is supposed to be in "real time", the time frame it covers is actually longer - a little more than 100 minutes. This is accomplished by speeding up the action: the formal dinner lasts only 20 minutes, the sun sets too quickly and so on. The September 2002 issue of Scientific American contains a complete analysis of this technique (and the effect it has on the viewers, who actually feel as if they watched a 100-minutes movie).

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/)