I think that no other person could ever create a film like this, and no one has yet. Alfred Hitchcock has created his own aura for himself through his reputation for distinctive movies, and he imbues Vertigo with this aura, adding to what it possesses already. Scottie becomes obsessed with an image, an aura that he will stop at nothing to re-create in Judy. The face that Scottie insists upon is Madeleine's. 3 Art is physically present in our reality, and it is a natural step for aura to be there as well.
Women become both the all-powerful possessors of aura and the utterly powerless slaves to aura.
By virtue of her beauty she possesses aura, and in Judy's case, by virtue of her convincing artifice, she succeeds in becoming the art that is Madeleine, a reproduction made flesh. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. He is a spectator to this work of art, outside its frame, watching the performance. The opening credits begin with a woman's face, whose features are zoomed in on as the cast is named. It is the man who gets lips, speech, action.