How Filmmakers Keep You Guessing

How do filmmakers create suspense? How can they cleverly deceive their audience in ways that are surprising? In ways that make us curious instead of confused? What happens when they choose to keep a secret from us? Maybe tell a lie? And how do they do all this without betraying the valuable audience/storyteller relationship? //Support our channel directly:   / fromtheframe   //Films: Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Matrix (1999), Armageddon (1998), Se7en (1995), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), North by Northwest (1959), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Princess Bride (1987), The Big Sleep (1946), In A Lonely Place (1950), The Truman Show (1998), Titanic (1997), The Third Man (1949), The Prestige (2006), The Usual Suspects (1995), Psycho (1960), Scream (1996), Jurassic Park (1993), Gone Girl (2014), Memento (2000), Cloverfield (2008), Signs (2002), Sabotage (1936), Rope (1948), Pulp Fiction (1994), (500) Days of Summer (2009), Challengers (2024), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Apollo 13 (1995), Source Code (2011), Slacker (1990), Run Lola Run (1998), Go (1999), Groundhog Day (1993), Citizen Kane (1941), Intolerance (1916), The Phantom Carriage (1921), Brief Encounter (1945), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Palm Springs (2020), Past Lives (2023), The Hangover (2009), Forrest Gump (1994), Arrival (2016), Elf (2003), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Burn After Reading (2008), Fatal Attraction (1987), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Shutter Island (2010), Silence of the Lambs (1991), Double Indemnity (1944), Knives Out (2019), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Godfather (1972), The Departed (2006), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020), Atonement (2007), Inception (2010), Black Swan (2010), The Sixth Sense (1999), Interstellar (2014) //Interviews: Alfred Hitchcock On Mastering Cinematic Tension | AFI //Sources: Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Observations on Film Art – Hitchcock, Lessing, and the bomb under the table, Hitchcock again: 3.9 steps to s-u-s-p-e-n-s-e, Murder Culture: Adventures in 1940s Suspense, A behemoth from the Dead Zone, Enter Benoît Blanc: KNIVES OUT as murder mystery, Grandmaster flashback, The reader is warned, Chinese boxes, Russian dolls, and Hollywood movies, Forking tracks: SOURCE CODE, What-if movies: Forking paths in the drawing room, Scriptnotes, Episodes 432, 358, 581, 151, 490, 579, 647, 542, 332, 269 //Music: Red Whine by Everet Almond Puzzle Pieces by Lee Rosevere Direct to Video by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: https://chriszabriskie.com/direct-to-... Artist: http://chraiszabriskie.com/ System Corruption by The Soundlings //Find us here:   / itsfromtheframe     / itsfromtheframe   #videoessay, #filmmaking