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Alfred Hitchcock
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The acknowledged master of the thriller genre he virtually invented, Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. He began his filmmaking career in 1919 illustrating title cards for silent films at Paramount’s Famous Players-Lasky studio in London. There he learned scripting, editing and art direction, and rose to assistant director in 1922. That year he directed an unfi nished film, No. 13 or Mrs. Peabody . His first completed film as director was The Pleasure Garden (1925), an Anglo-German production filmed in Munich. This experience, plus a stint at Germany’s UFA studios as an assistant director, help account for the Expressionistic character
“If I won’t be myself, who will?”
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“tHE LENGHT OF A FILM SHOULD BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE ENDURANCE OF THE HUMAN BLADDER.” -Alfred hitchcock
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irector, producer and screenwriter Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London, England, on August 13, 1899, and was raised by strict, Catholic parents. He described his childhood as lonely and sheltered, partly due to his obesity. He once said that he was sent by his father to the local police I n station with a note asking the officer to lock 1979, Hitchhim away for 10 minutes as punishment for cock was behaving badly. He also remarked that recognised by the British his mother would for him to stand establishment and was knighted at the foot of her bed for several by the Queen. hours as punishment (scenealluded Hitchcock was married in 1926 to Alma Reville, a to in his film Psycho). This idea film editor. They had a dauof being harshly treated or ghter, Patricia Hitchcock, who appeared in some of Hitchcock’s wrongfully accused would most famous films. later be reflected in ALFRED American debut film, ‘Rebecca’ (1940), starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Hitchcock’s films. Fontaine and was a huge success, winning an irector, producer Oscar for Best Picture. and screenwriter Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London, England, August 1 3 ,
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Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He received the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award in 1979. One year later, on April 29, 1980, Hitchcock died peacefully in his sleep in Bel Air, California.
In 1939, Hitchcock left England for Hollywood. The first film he made there, Rebecca (1940), won an Academy Award for best picture. Some of his most famous films include Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964).
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lfred Hitchcock had a thing for blondes especially the cool, regal kind whose pristine exterior might mask startling depths of passion. “We’re after the drawing-room type,” he told Francois Truffaut (in his interview book Hitchcock). “An English girl, looking like a schoolteacher, is apt to get into a cab with you and, to your surprise, she’ll probably pull a man’s pants open.” He relished placing his heroines in jeopardy. He broke them down emotionally, and even physically. Preoccupied with manipulating their screen images, dictating the tiniest details of costume, coiffure, makeup and shoes Hitchcock eventually strove to control their private lives as well. “I always believe in following the advice of the playwright (Victorien) SarWou,” Hitchcock once confessed. “He said, ‘Torture the women!’ The trouble today is that we don’t torture women enough.” Renowned as the Master of Suspense, Hitchcock made 53 films most of them thrillers classics.
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But the moment is remembered as much for the slashing strings of composer Bernard Hermann as for its gore — surprising, when you think that originally Hitchcock didn’t even want any musical accompaniment to the shower scene. “They found this particular woman,” a schizophrenic man who — years after his father dies — has murdered his demanding and controlling mother and lover. And he continues to murder as his mother.
Chocolate syrup proved to be the right stand-in for blood it’s a black-and-white movie, remember But the moment is remembered a cts artists tried cantaloupe and watermelon, but only the casaba could satisfdirector. Before the action was over, Hitchcock had ruined showering for a generation. Psycho was made fast and cheap—Hitchcock used his TV crew — and it scared the pants off audiences in 1960. The inspiration for Norman Bates goes back a few years earlier, according to Stephen Rebello. author of Alfred Hitchcock and The Making
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tHIS FILM perhaps Hitchcock’s most fully realized film. From a script by Ernest Lehman, with a score (as usual) by Bernard Herrmann, and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, this The acknowledged master of quintessential chase movie is the thriller genre he virtua- full of all the things for which lly invented we remember Alfred Hitchcock: ingenious shots, subtle male-female relationships, dramatic score, bright technicolor, inside jokes, witty symbolism and above all masterfully orchestrated suspense.
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IS FILM perhaps Hitchcock’s most fully realized film. From a script by Ernest Lehman, with a score (as usual) by Bernard Herrmann, and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, this quintessential chase movie is full of all the things for which we remember Alfred Hitchcock: ingenious shots, subtle male-female relationships, dramatic score.
all masterfully orchestrated suspense The nightmarish, disturbing film’s themes of corruptibility, confused identities, voyeurism, human vulnerabilities and victimization, the deadly effects of money, Oedipal murder, and dark past histories are realistically revealed. Its themes were revealed through repeated uses of motifs, such as birds, eyes, hands, and mirrors.
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TO CATCH A THIEF American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on the list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. Lloyds of London insurance agent “There is no terror in the bang, The is using a thief to catch a thief. gets only in the anticipation of it.” Jessie’s attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down the décolletage of a French roulette playerall masterfully
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American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on the list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. The Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief. gets Jessie’s attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down the décolletage of a French roulette playerall masterfully
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Alfred Hitchcock is known for having a cameo in many of his movies. His cameo in Rear Window is about a half hour into the movie in the scene in the songwriter’s loft. Hitchcock is seen for a few seconds appearing as a guest or a housekeeper winding the clock above the songwriter’s fireplace.
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