Key to Reserva, a Movie From Scorsese/Hitchcock

1. Alex
   November 28th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

   Oooooh, this was fantastic! I really got sucked into it in the first couple of minutes of the “movie.”

2. Justin
   November 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

   That was very interesting. Thanks for the link.

3. Paul
   November 28th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

   That was so cool, but I have two questions for everyone else who watched it:

   1) Was there a Hitchcock cameo in there? That would have been the perfect touch!

   2) Did anyone else get the sense that Mel Brooks was directing Scorcese directing Hitchcock?

4. anonymous
   November 28th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

   Scorsese was channeling Woody Allen. His performance in the archive room with the white preservationist gloves was borderline This Is Spinal Tap. Really great.

   They pretty much got all of the big Hitchcock works in there — even the lustrous blue suit.

   Oddly, the name of the vinter never sunk in at all — even with close ups of the label and the cork…

5. Kira
   November 29th, 2007 at 5:52 am

   Scorsese did a great job with this. I would have liked to see him improvise what might have been on that missing page! I must have missed the Hitchcock cameo too…I’d have a hard time believing that there isn’t one.

6. dt
   December 7th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

   I love how he made Simon Baker resemble Robert Walker from Strangers on a Train and Rope, and the actor who looks like Leo G. Carroll from North by Northwest. Of course there’s the Man who Knew too Much and Vertigo references, and the wine bottle MacGuffin from Notorious and the Birds joke at the end. This was a lot of fun.

7. Lee
   December 8th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

   And the character names were a great touch - “Roger Thornberry”, “Grace Thornberry”, “Leonard” (after Martin Landau’s character in North by Northwest, and “Mr. Carroll” (for Michael Easton’s dead-ringer take on Leo G. Carroll). Priceless.

8. Lee
   December 8th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

   CORRECTION: Richard Easton (not Michael) played Mr. Carroll.

9. Josh
   December 9th, 2007 at 9:21 am

   But my question is, is it legitimately taken from an unfinished Hitchcock script or was that a goof and it’s Scorsese doing an homage to Hitchcock for a commercial?

10. yayo
    December 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    I think it’s a goof but don’t know it for real

11. Lee
    December 12th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    I’m guessing it’s a goof - the names and homages are too spot-on to be otherwise. And Ted Griffin (the s reenwriter of Ocean’s Eleven) is named as a “creative consultant”, which would be a nice cover if (as I suspect) he wrote it.

    But one thing’s for sure, it’s one of the best goofs I’ve ever seen.

12. Albert Hotel
    January 12th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    The Utne Reader posted an interesting blog about “Scorsese’s Hitchcock” that covers some more of the references and also the manuscript claim:

    http://www.utne.com/01-11-2008/Dial-M-for-Marketing-Scorsese-Parodies- Hitchcock.aspx

13. Tim Costello
    January 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    This unfinished movie script of Hitchcock has been rumoured to exist for many years. I remember first hearing about it when I was a student in the London School of Film Technique many years ago. We tried to find out what the plans were but without success even though we were once transferred to a production office in Hollywood by phone to some guy ‘doing the research’ on it! That was subsequently denied by Head Office - normal Hollywood secrecy rules about projected movies - and the guy in question vanished. Very Hitchcockian in itself.
    So why don’t you all write to the Freixenet - Reserva - Pimecava company at: news@decanter.com, and ask them to ask Scorsese to make the movie. I already did.

    From Tim in Ireland.

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