James Stewart-A-Thon

It was a genuine coincidence but the last four movies I've watched have all had James Stewart as the leading role in them. I'm on a sort of Hitchcock kick right now that started when I watched Rope last weekend. Stewart played the cynical and sarcastic professor, Rupert Cadell in the film, which before this weekend, was also the only role I've ever known him as.  Dr. Morris told me to watch Vertigo before we met up again and that just so happened to have James Stewart as the lead in it as well. I'm not sure if I like Vertigo as much as Rope but both are truly amazing films. Yesterday, I gave my Dad the option of choosing the next movie to watch, and he randomly chose The Man Who Knew Too Much which also happened to have good ole Jimmy Stewart as the leading man. By this point I was already amazed that the last 3 movies I watched all featured Stewart as the lead and then I popped in Rear Window, for no other reason than I couldn't sleep last night. And as soon as I heard that recognizable drawl, I was laughing to myself so hard that I had to pause the movie right there for like a solid 5 minutes. The entire film I couldn't take entirely serious because of just how many roles I'd seen the man in during the same day. Maybe I like subconsciously internalized that Stewart was in all of these movies but truly, I really had no clue. Stewart is to Hitchcock as Samuel L. Jackson is to Tarantino. This also displays an important aspect of Auteur Theory, director's reusing actors they enjoy. Tarantino with Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Tim Roth. Nolan with Christian Bale. To an extent Kubrick with Peter Sellers and now Hitchcock with James Stewart.

 I counted up the rest of the movies I need to watch and there's 19 left. My goal is to be finished with all of them by May 1st and I think it's definitely doable, I just have to stay on schedule.