Joan Fontaine is beautiful, and sweet, but at one point it seems she would rather throw herself out of a window than stand up for herself, or even just talk to her husband. Mrs Danver is psychotic, Rebecca was clearly evil, and our heroine is so weak that she goes to pieces at the slightest hint of bullying.
REBECCA MOVIE MOVIE
Mrs van Hopper is not the only unpleasant woman in this movie of course many critics have pointed out how unsympathetic all of the main female characters are. When Mrs van Hopper first came on screen I thought it was Alfred Hitchcock in a wig and a frock, doing his customary cameo appearance in a more flamboyant manner than usual.
Or perhaps, and I think this is the most likely explanation, it was simply to get away from the monstrous Mrs van Hopper. On the other hand, perhaps she was just attracted by his good looks (he looks like Timothy Dalton, don’t you think?) and confident manner. I wonder what it was that attracted our heroine to the millionaire Max de Winter? Was it the way he was still apparently in love with his first wife, or the way spoke to her like she was a child (“eat it all up, there’s a good girl”), or perhaps she just likes men with suicidal tendencies? Hmm…well, a cynic might think she was in it for the money. The police choose not to press charges against Max, and he returns home. He believes Max killed Rebecca when she told him she was pregnant with his child, but when they speak to Rebecca’s doctor, it turns out she was not pregnant, but dying of cancer. Rebecca had had a string of affairs, including Jack Favell (George Sanders), who now reappears and accuses Max of murder. Max disposed of her body at sea and falsely identified another body as hers. One day they were arguing, and she fell, hit her head, and died. Max and his young bride find themselves alone together, and he confesses all to her. The argument is interrupted however, by news that a body has been discovered, and it is revealed to be Rebecca’s. Mrs Danvers schemes to drive a wedge between the newlyweds, and tricks the young woman into wearing a dress that Rebecca had previously worn, provoking Max to fly into a fit of rage. In particular, the housekeeper Mrs Danvers is cold and hostile, and constantly compares her unfavorably to the first Mrs de Winter, Rebecca, who drowned a year earlier. Mrs de Winter tries to assume the role of the lady of the house, but feels inadequate. After a brief courtship they are married, and go to live in his mansion (Manderly) in England. She took sadistic pleasure in telling her mistress the truth about Santa ClausĪ young woman (Joan Fontaine) meets rich widower Max de Winter (Laurence Olivier) while travelling in Europe.
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