2. North by Northwest (1959) – A Train Penetrating a Tunnel
The ending of North by Northwest is a perfect example of why you should never piss off Hitchcock. This was yet another film heavy with sexual innuendos and a seemingly sexual relationship between Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant’s characters. Due to the implied sexuality, the PCA forced Hitchcock to alter a scene at the end of the film implying that Grant and Saint’s character were married. Since he had to alter a scene in a manner that he had not wanted, Hitchcock took revenge. At the end of the film, after Saint and Grant’s characters kiss in a train car, it cuts to the image of the train entering a tunnel, an image looking quite similar to penetration during sex.
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