Rope Analysis- Media

In Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 thriller 'Rope',  Hitchcock steers away from the typical thriller conventions. This is shown, for example, in the fact that rather than containing high energy action scenes, 'Rope' contains more tension building scenes, and so the audience is not filled with adrenaline from fast pacing, but rather filled with adrenaline from not wanting our "Heroes" to be found out and the sheer levels of dramatic irony. This is seen especially in the scene where Mrs. Atwater is about to open the drawer that the body is hidden in, and is a second away from blowing their cover and revealing their "Perfect Murder".
As well as this the audience is also consulted with personal conflict. This is because in usual Thriller, the characters that have the most screen time are the heroes, and our exposure to them make us recognise them as a good person.  Therefore, in "Rope", the viewer is most familiar with the two posh boys, and while technically they're the heroes of the movie, they are villains in their acts of killing a person and keeping the corpse so close to their family and girlfriend. Therefore, at the end where the two posh boys and the man are in a room together, we are left to contemplate who the real hero is.
 Secondly, "Rope" is home to many different thriller conventions, such as Levi Strauss' theory of 'Binary Opposites'. These are different characters in the film that, through their main traits or roles, are portrayed as completely opposite from each other. For example, there is a portrayal in the difference and opposition of sexuality in the film. in the film, we see two different sexual preferences displayed, one of a homosexual relationship (Brandon and Phillip) and one of a straight relationship (David and Janet).