Easy Virtue

the trial and murder portion, shows how good technically he is and the glimpses of possibility of bright future but the moments the family, love drama portion started it started to feel dragged even though it not dragged technically. My one assumption is in his early silent work, he didn't exactly figure out what story exactly for him to tell and trying to find that by doing different kinds of story or maybe at that point of career he didn't get the chance of making films of the story by his own choice. He might be doing films whatever opportunity comes from the studio. Might be that's the reason the real Hitchcock came slightly later. Also keeping one thing in mind, when he made this he was just around 29 which is a very young age for a film director. Another thing I noticed is that he doesn't like to put captions as little as possible, like very minimal. Which is maybe not very ideal because certain scenes are very dialogue heavy. So, he tried to push himself by putting too much expressions and reactions which might not actually help that much for the audience to connect with the authenticity of the character's emotion. But in between those, there are very interesting choices. Some artists will be very tempted to steal the idea of the scene, especially when Larita's reply to John's marriage proposal is seen through the expression of the phone operator's reaction without showing any shots of the two characters. Even though these films might be boring or might be very boring compared to Hitchcock's magnum opus, these films are interesting. You get a strong sense of a very interesting persona of who is behind those lenses. You always get something to think or talk about like some scene or some shot or some camerawork etc.... Or maybe a caption..... In the end of the film when the heroine of the film walks out the court room and reporters are waiting outside to take the picture of her as an evil who is actually innocent.Then she poses for those camera and caption come in the screen - "Shoot! There’s nothing left to kill." He might not like captions but he definitely chose a one where he can thrive.