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False Security in Vertigo In the film Vertigo, the character of Scotty is trying to undersatnd how Judy, a woman he has just met, so closely resembles his dead love Madeline. After following Judy to her home at the Empire Hotel, he goes to her door where he confronts her to see if she is a hallucination, like others he has seen, or an actual dead ringer for Madeline. As an example of Mise-en-scene through prop placement, the positioning of the door during Scotty and Judy's first encounter at the hotel alludes to her duplicity and that her relationship with Scotty may be more than it appears. As Judy opens the door to Scotty, she carefully places herself behind the door, but not entirely. She appears to be split down the middle by the door. The angle from which Scotty and the audience is viewing her shows only half her body with a sliver of apartment behind her, with the other half of the