y happened to Madeleine. The shift in the character's focus plays an important role in the characters desire to reach a goal. It allows different actions to develop and allows the character to drive the action in the film.A very important characteristic of the Hollywood Classical Film is when a character is able to drive the action in the film. Kim Novaks characters; Madeleine Ellester, Corlata Valdez and Judy Barden do a great job of driving the action in Vertigo. Madeleine changes John Fergusons focus through out the film. First, he is curious about Madeleine, next he spies on her and then he worries about her. Afterwards he falls in love with her, then he loses her, then he tries to get over her and finally creates her again. The main character's focus shifts among these three characters and this creates a change in his character that causes conflict in the film.Conflict in a film effects the character's desire to reach a goal, it shifts his focus and affects the plot. There are many different conflicts in Vertigo. First, John Ferguson has a fear of heights that effect his actions throughout the film. Another conflict that occurred in the film was when Madeleine thought that she had been transformed into Corlata Valdez and how it effected her actions. Other conflicts that occurred in the film were the following: when Madeleine and John fell in love, Madeleines death, John getting over Madeleines death, John recreating Madeleine and John figuring out what happened to Madeleine. These conflicts made the film more interesting. Vertigo had a strong closure, it had tied up all the loose ends at the end of the film. John Ferguson had gotten over his fear of height at the end of the film, he was able to figure out what happened to Madeleine, he had finally gotten over Madeleine and ended his fictional relationship with Judy. The film did not give the viewer a sense of closure in the character's lives, because it did not have a happy endi...
