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Frenzy: the falsely-accused man, 1
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| Above: Richard Blaney is introduced via a match cut that associates him with the necktie murders of which he will eventually be accused. Below: The early scenes of the movie, before the actual murderer is revealed, are devoted setting up Blaney as a man with a violent temper and a streak of misogyny. |
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| Blaney's friendship with Bob Rusk sets up another Doppelganger motif in a Hitchcock film. Like Bruno in Strangers on a Train, Rusk murders Blaney's ex-wife shortly after Blaney has been observed verbally abusing her. |
Blaney is in the foreground as the lawyer and doctor discuss the necktie murderer's pathology: "We haven't had a good juicy series of sex murders since Christie, and they're so good for the tourist trade." | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Even after the audience knows who the murderer is, Blaney is visually associated with the crimes, and with violence against women. |
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| Blaney's arrest provides the most explicit visual equivalent of Hitchcock's fear of jail cells and the "clanging door" (according to him, a memory from his childhood). | ||||||||||||||||||||