[The entire sequence was a foreshadowing of the exciting conclusion of the film when the President was also confronted with a real global crisis of nuclear war.] BackgroundVertigo(1958) is one of Alfred Hitchcock""s most powerful, deep, and stunningly beautiful films (in widescreen 70 mmVistaVision) - it is afilm noirthat functions on multiple levels.Both were from the planet - but from another time 2,000 years earlier.He explained how he couldn""t return after passing through a "defect - a slippage in time" - it was the same thing that had happened to Taylor.After he left, four large diagonal cracks (the film""s leitmotif) split open on her bedroom wall.Downstairs, she found Dylan transfixed in front of a television, viewing an excerpt of her own starring role as Nancy Thompson inA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red."When Brassel left the room, Musgrave told Hunt that he tended to agree with Brassel: "Brassel""s right.