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Why does Scottie stop working as a detective?

In the first scene of the film, we see Scottie working as a detective. He is
pursuing a man alongside a cop and ends up falling from a rooftop and
hanging off a ledge. In the process of hanging, Scottie experiences
extreme vertigo, which completely debilitates him and even leads to the
death of his partner, the cop. As a result of the incident, Scottie decides to
retire from his job as a detective to take some time off.
2. 2
Why does Midge get so upset after Scottie responds poorly to the
painting she did?
Midge is jealous of Scottie's infatuation with the mysterious Madeleine,
so devises a plan to make fun of the case. She paints a large reproduction
of the Carlotta Valdes portrait with which Madeleine is so obsessed, but
then puts her own bespectacled face in the painting as a kind of ironic
joke. Scottie, who is in deep with Madeleine and takes the case very
seriously, does not see the humor in Midge's gesture and leaves in a huff.
Midge gets upset because she realizes that her plan, which was meant to
bring her closer to Scottie, has done the opposite. She blames herself for
driving away the man she loves.
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What is the purpose of Midge's character?
While Midge does not serve much of a purpose to the central plot, apart
from acting as a confidant for Scottie and introducing him to the
historian/bookseller Pop Liebl, her relationship with Scottie is a kind of
foil for his relationship with Madeleine. Where Madeleine is ethereal,
mysterious, elegant, and disturbed, Midge is pragmatic, self-aware,
humorous and straightforward. She often behaves in a maternal way
towards Scottie, even calling herself "mother" when she goes to visit him
at the sanatorium. It is precisely these attributes that turn Scottie off of
Midge, and the qualities that make Madeleine all the more unusual and
aloof are what attract him to her. While it is not explicit, Hitchcock
frames the two women as opposites: one is maternal and knowable, while
the other is elusive and unknowable.
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 What piece of information do we learn that Scottie does not, about
two-thirds of the way through the film?
After Scottie meets Judy and arranges to meet her for dinner, the viewer is
left alone with Judy. In this moment, she drafts a letter to Scottie
informing him that she is in fact "Madeleine," and that she was hired by
Gavin Elster to pose as his wife. The woman whose body fell from the
bell tower was Gavin's actual wife, whom he killed by strangulation. In
fact, Judy is the woman with whom Scottie fell in love, only now she is
being herself, rather than playing a character.
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How does Hitchcock use color and light to tell his story?
One of the most striking color motifs in the film is Hitchcock's use of the
color green. When Scottie first sees Madeleine, she is wearing a flash of
green. Then later, when he meets Judy, she is wearing a green dress, and
her hotel room is illuminated by a bright neon green light that shines
outside the window. In the moment when Judy emerges from the
bathroom, her hair done up in the exact way that Madeleine used to wear
it, she is completely lit by green light, which seems to cast a strange halo
around her whole body. In this moment, she looks like a ghost come to
life (and indeed, in a sense she is).