The studio tried one more time, hiring Jeff Alexander and Larry Orenstein to write a song called "Madeleine, " set to the love theme.
In the final scene, where Scottie faces reality and determines at the risk of spiritual death to "stop being haunted, " the love theme and the illusions it represents are ripped into ugly scraps.
Accompanied by a full string orchestra, he plays "Midnight Sun" with gravitas and then, a few tracks later, engages in a harmonica-and-bass duet (with Marc Johnson) on the "Spartacus Love Theme" that's more about intimacy than grandeur.
The first part of the exhibition is devoted to the theme of "Love".
Aristotle picked up the theme, explaining that good self-love is vital for intimacy.
"Madeleine's Theme" gradually swells into the full love melody, which makes its initial appearance as Scottie and Madeleine drive to the sequoia forest, then fragments into a gathering nightmare during the stable sequence.
Eric Rohmer constructed his latest film, from 2004, on his old theme: the danger of falling for a false love while awaiting a real one.
In turn, Vertigo's love theme makes a poignant return in North by Northwest, as does the vertigo chord when Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint have their turn clutching Hitchcock's precipice.
On first listen, the song could be mistaken for a whimsical ditty, with its pop theme of angst-ridden love.
But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.
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