By skyforbes 
The trailer begins with the production of the film. It’s cameras, cast, and crew all facing the apartment building.
“This is a scene of the crime,” the male trailer voice said. “A crime of passion filmed in a way that you’ve never seen before, and as no one else would dare attempt.”
“Screams ‘Master of Suspense.’ Producer/Director who SHOCKED the world with…PSYCHO!”
Alfred Hitchcock
It shows Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart) reading a newspaper at his apartment.
You see the daytime view of the apartment building, with multiple windows.
It cuts to several black-and-white photos in a frame inside a house. The trailer voice continued,
“This is the apartment of a man named Jeffries, a news photographer whose been used to being in the world.”
You see a photo of a steam engine. A woman pulling something out of a fire hydrant. Soldiers in war. A large explosion. You also see his camera right beside the photos.
It cuts back to a zoom in on the apartment windows.
“Right now, his world has shrunk down to the size of this window.”
That gives the 1950s audience a sense of mystery. Why did the world of this man shrink down into a window? He is a news photographer who has travelled around the world.
“He’s been watching the people across the way. Nobody seems to pull their blinds during a hot spell like this.”
In the 1950s, air conditioning was not yet a standard feature in many apartments. The story of Rear Window is set in an apartment courtyard in Greenwich Village, New York City. But actually, the 1950s is the boom of the air conditioning unit where it starts being a consumer product for many homes, not just a luxury item.
“He knows a lot about them by now. Too much, perhaps.”
Jeffries looks out of his window with a raised eyebrow. It is nighttime. She sees a woman walking around her apartment. It is covered in blinds, but you can still see what’s happening. The living room has a lamp with a few wall decor. There is a bedroom on the right side where you see two sets of lamps.
“For instance, down there at the second floor. The woman, pacing about. He calls her ‘Miss Lonely Hearts.’ So lonely that only death seems like a friend.”
What the f***? That’s a pretty dark assumption, Jeffries. But then, he looked to his far left. You see a man in a white t-shirt with black hair and a woman with blond hair wearing a yellow shirt dress.
“These are the newlyweds, on a honeymoon no one would ever forget.”
Jeffries looked straight and down. She saw a woman in a white floral dress wiping the cement off an odd sculpture.
“He calls her ‘Miss Hearing Aid,’ an artist of a very odd and strange art.
Jeffries looked up. He saw a man in black, smoking while playing the piano.
“The songwriter, who plays the same melody over and over again. A genius? Or insane.”
I sorta understand that. I’m a dancer. If you’re mastering a piece, you have to do it over and over again.
Jeffries looked to his upper right. You see an older man in a dress shirt and a younger wife lying in bed.
“This is the traveling salesman and his wife. Out of their arguments and nagging comes a weird kind of love.”
Jeffries looked to his far left, twisting his body. You see a woman dancing while three men in suits are beside her.
“‘Miss Torso,’ the body beautiful, that is, viewed from a safe distance.”
Wow! Jeffries is just a peeping tom. For context, I have seen the movie. Excellent movie, BTW. Watch it. I believe he broke his leg or something, that’s why he’s stuck in his living room. And since mobile phones weren’t invented yet, Jeffries used his own neighbors for entertainment.
Jeffries looked at us, the POV camera, “Those are just a few of my neighbors. First, I watched them just to kill time. But then I couldn’t take my eyes off them. Just as you won’t be able too.”
I think we, as humans, are fascinated by the lives of other people. That’s why social media and vlogging clicked. We (humans) LOVE watching other people.
It cuts back to Jeffries’s apartment as the gorgeous Grace Kelly walks in wearing a white nightgown. She plays Lisa Fremont, a rich girl who is the love interest of Jeffries.
“And you won’t be able to take your eyes off the glowing beauty of Grace Kelly, who shares the heart and curiosity of James Stewart. In the story of a romance shadowed by the terror of a horrifying secret.”
Lisa pulls up the blinds from the window. Jeffries and Lisa looked up to the Travelling Salesman, brooding alone on his apartment balcony.
Budget: $1 Million
Box Office: $37.9 Million
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