Let 'Em Play God Vocabulary
This is a component of a solution or mixture; Hitchcock used it to mean "a necessary part" of suspense.
What is an ingredient?
This is the most dramatic point of any suspense movie and is an element of every story.
What is the climax?
The master of suspense and director of many groundbreaking suspense movies, including Psycho and Rope.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
This is a word for a movement usually accompanying passionate speaking. The narrator describes speaking, "in a high key with violent [these]."
What is gesticulation?
A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s
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These are the people believed to have committed a crime.
Who are suspects?
This is the kind of character required for suspense--they must be this.
What is plausible or believeable?
This essay is about suspense in this particular medium. Hitchcock is know for making these.
What is film/are movies?
To irritate, annoy, or provoke. The old man's Evil Eye did this to the narrator.
What is vex?
An article where the author argues that an iPhone is better than an Android phone
Persuade
This is another word for believable. Hitchcock wants characters that are this.
What is plausible?
This amusement park ride is like suspense, building anticipation as one waits for the plunge one knows is coming.
What is a rollercoaster?
Puzzling the audience, keeping them from knowing the suspect, and exaggerated personalities are all examples of this (a category from your quiz).
What is not suspenseful.
This is a word for ridicule or mockery. "Anything is more tolerable than this ___!"
What is derision?
A medical report describing the effects of steroids on the human body
Inform
This word means, "incapable of feeling or perceiving." Hitchcock describes a person who has been punched this way.
What is insensibility?
What is information?
This is the name of the movie Hitchcock highlights in Let 'Em Play God, in which the audience watches two men strangle a third in the opening scene before hiding the body in a chest.
What is Rope?
This is acuteness of mental discernment. The narrator says, "never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my ___."
What is sagacity?
A speech written by a professional athlete listing the negative effects of steroids and urging young athletes to not use steroids
Persuade
This words means, "to expose as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated." Hitchcock argues that he does not do this.
What is debunk?
This is created by scenes like Granger picking a "light and childish piece, a minuet" while playing the piano or the opening scene of rope showing a city park on a sunny day.
What is contrast?
This is Hitchock's phrase for letting the audience know all the details first, suggesting that when he does it, "they'll work like the devil for you."
What is letting the audience play God?
This is the act of lying or covering up one's true intentions. The narrator says, "Villians! [Do this] no more!"
What is dissemble?
A story written about a young boy who moves to a new school and is bullied, but he gains self-confidence by joining a sports team and learns to stand up for himself.
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