Latin Hitchcock by Kercher Dona;

Author:Kercher, Dona;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER004030, Performing Arts/Film & Video/History & Criticism, PER004010, Performing Arts/Film & Video/Direction & Production
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

In his cameo in Open Your Eyes, Amenábar laughs at César (Eduardo Noriega) and the line Amenábar’s co-scriptwriter Mateo Gil has just said (‘Fix your face’) as César exits the men’s room of a club.

This scenario cleverly acknowledges the role of Gil as assistant director and co-scriptwriter. In addition, as in Hitchcock’s cameos, which often took place at bus stops or on the sidewalk, Amenábar/Gil’s cameo occurs in a public place. Whether the twosome make fun of themselves, as Hitchcock does in Lifeboat where he stares longingly out of an ad for a diet aid, is less certain. Perhaps the men’s room set and male duo indirectly refer to Amenábar’s coming out as a gay man; however, he only made that revelation public in Shangay Express, a free Spanish newspaper for the gay community, in 2004, seven years after the release of Open Your Eyes.10

More significant to our reading of the film is the relationship of the authorial cameo in Open Your Eyes to the interpretation of the narrative, especially its structure and pace. As Richard Allen, citing Michael Walker, remarks: ‘Hitchcock’s cameos are often carefully timed interventions in the story which signal a decisive shift in the action as the protagonist “crosses a threshold” into the shadow world’ (2007: 22). Allen further explains:

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