Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock's One More Mile To Go

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Alfred Hitchcock presents’ One More Mile To Go and The Twilight Zone’s The Hitch-Hiker share many similarities between their narratives. The most noticeable similarity would be the theme of their stories. Both of them involve characters who are driving alone, for the most part, along deserted roads, and who are afraid of something. However, these stories not only share a similar theme but also the elements that were chosen to represent these stories are very similar as well. I will be comparing and contrasting among the two film for the elements that support the narrative. There aren’t any definite settings for the films as our characters are constantly traveling. One More Mile To Go starts at a house in the countryside where we saw the …show more content…

In One More Mile to Go, my favorite camera movement is during the scene where Jacoby is thinking about what to do with the body the camera moves backwards as he walks to the garage. We have a medium shot as he is thinking and walking around looking, he turns around and reaches to grab something. The camera zooms out and we see that he has a shovel. We see him move about, still thinking what to do until he finds a sack. We get a medium shot of his hands as he puts the body inside the sack and the camera moves up with him as he lifts the body and leaves it in the trunk. In The Hitch Hiker, the gas station has a lot of movement. Long shot of exterior of the car and as Adams gets out of her car and the camera lifts a little when she stands up and then moves backwards to follow her around the car as she looks around to find a gas station. She keeps walking and as we follow her we see the sign that says “Gas Eats Just Ahead.” We have a medium shot of her as she stops to read the sign, she keeps walking, turns around and gets scared when she stumbles upon a tree. They are both smooth and clean and at first you might not even notice all these changes because the director is recreating how we naturally follow …show more content…

The acting wasn 't really great, but this film had a great variety of shots and that 's what leads me to believe that the editing group had the most control because they made it so that the final product had the suspense that it needed through editing. As for The Hitch-Hiker, I believe that the director had the most control over it. It was a very simple story, in general, but the acting is what elevates it and makes you wonder what 's going to happen next. I believe that the director carefully guided the actors and told them exactly how he wanted each moment.Overall, the films were pretty good. They were so similar and so different at the same time and it was good to see them back to back and compare their

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