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I think I prefer Rope as written by Patrick Hamilton to Hitchcock's production. The differences in the characters as written are mostly slight, but transplanting the movie to the 50s as Hitchcock does means we lose Rupert Cadell being a WWI veteran, and consequently lose my favourite dynamic of the story. In Hitchcock's telling, the crime of Brandon and Philip is to place themselves above others, and thus violate American equality. As Hamilton writes it, the conflict is between nihilisms. Cadell came to the conclusion of the cheapness of life through his experiences in WWI, and consequently his whole intellectual project is trying to reconstruct some humanity. To Brandon and Granillo, the cheapness of life is entirely an aesthetic to be enjoyed. They (well, Brandon) revel in the cruelty. To them the cheapness of life turns them into the sort of people who committed WWI, rather than those who suffered through it. I just find it much more interesting. I could talk about Hamilton's Brandon for hours. Hitchcock's Brandon not so much.
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