|  Vertigo Part Nine : Madeleine at the Mission
Before Watching
Look at the photo on the left and write a brief description of the place.
While Watching - Why has Madeleine come to visit Scottie?
- What did she dream about?
- Listen to Madeleine's description and sketch what she describes
- Where is the place Madeleine dreamed about?
- Why was she frightened about the dream?
- What does Scottie want to do and why?
- What time do they agree to meet
- What does Madeleine remember about being at the mission?
- What does Scottie find?
- Why does Madeleine say it's too late?
- What does Madeleine ask of Scottie?
After Watching Read this description of the sequence you've just scene and explain what the underlined words mean?
After one more kiss, she turns, looks up, and rushes into the church. He glances up at the bell tower for an instant, and then decides to chase after her. She starts to climb up the bell tower's crude, winding wooden staircase. His acrophobia and vertigo slow his climb after her up the spiraling stairs. Scottie pauses momentarily and looks downward from the landing where he is standing - experiencing a dizzying, disorienting fear of falling. And then when he reaches almost to the top, there is a shrieking scream and the body of Madeleine is seen through a side tower window falling to its death far below. Scottie looks down through the tower opening and sees a still body lying dead on the rooftop below.Tense and sweating profusely, he impotently climbs back down the stairs to the ground-level door. From an angle high above the church, the overhead camera views a reduced-sized Scottie exiting the church as nuns rush to the site and officials climb a ladder to remove the body from the cloister roof.
Created and Maintained by: Graham Stanley
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