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"Director, producer and screenwriter Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London, England, on August 13, 1899, and was raised by strict, Catholic parents." |
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"He also remarked that his mother would force him to stand at the foot of her bed for several hours as punishment (a scene alluded to in his film Psycho)." |
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"One year later, on April 29, 1980, Hitchcock died peacefully in his sleep in Bel Air, California" |
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"He was survived by his lifetime partner, assistant director and closest collaborator, Alma Reville, also known as "Lady Hitchcock," who died in 1982." |
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He came to the U.S with his family in 1939 |
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"Not only did he work with great actors he was a technical expert and broke the paradigm for editing, camera angle, and a deep focus." |
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"Psycho gave Hitchcock the name MASTER OF SUSPENSE" |
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" He was knighted in 1980" |
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"Hitchcock's is a career spanning 54 years, traversing 65 films, two continents and practically every technical revolution (silents, sound, colour, even, as in Dial M For Murder, 3D)." |
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"Before he died in 1980, he'd joked that he wanted the motto "This Is What Happens To Little Boys When They Are Naughty" chiselled on his tombstone." |
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"Yet perhaps what he ended up with is equally apt, an ode to complicity and his love of bad jokes: "I'm in on a plot". And, thankfully, he let the rest of the world in too." |
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"Late in life, Hitchcock admitted that two of his then current guilty pleasures were Burt Reynolds redneck-pleaser Smokey And The Bandit and Disney's pooch parable Benji. Both share an uncomplicated lightness that rarely permeated his own work." |
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"Hitchcock was deeply serious about music in his films, recognizing its power to express characters’ hidden desires and weaving it into a movie so skillfully that it became “ingrained in the visual fabric.” |
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"Thirty-three years after his death, his image is as instantly recognizable as that of Chaplin or Einstein." |
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"But in other, no less interesting ways, these films represent the road not taken. At this early point in his career, Hitchcock was still experimenting with different genres and different styles, varying his approach film by film as he discovered what he had to say and refined how he wanted to say it." |
ABOUT HIS EARLIEST FILMS (SILENT)
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"The young Hitchcock, as he would be throughout his life, was a passionate filmgoer and a judicious magpie, who filed away images and ideas for later development. When the seminal London Film Society was formed in 1925, Hitchcock became one of its earliest and most assiduous members, absorbing the latest work from France, Germany and the Soviet Union." |
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"Hitchcock’s use of the confrontational close-up diminished with the coming of sound; perhaps he felt that, with the added element of spoken dialogue, the technique became too obvious. He would find other, more subtle and more psychological, ways of achieving the same effect. But the device remained in his arsenal: When Mrs. Bates looks up and out at us at the end of “Psycho,” she does so with the same, sudden, discomfiting intimacy with which the Lodger regarded the camera in 1927." |
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"Beyond their immediate dramatic purpose, what you feel in these shots is Hitchcock’s eagerness to implicate the viewer in the action, to shake us out of the comfortable position of the detached voyeur and plunge us into the exigencies of the moment." |
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"It is here that Hitchcock, so often mischaracterized as a sadistic manipulator, reveals his deep humanism. He insists that we feel the compulsion of the killer, the passion of the adulterer, the irrational shame of the unfairly accused, before we make an easy moral judgment and push them away." |
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"Sometimes the best refuge from real trauma is simulated terror." |
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"The audience does a lot of the imagining, and that’s what disturbs them." |
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"Education: St. Ignatius College, London; School of Engineering and Navigation (mechanics, electricity, acoustics, navigation); University of London (art)" |
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"I didn't say actors are cattle. What I said was, actors should be treated like cattle." |
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"Drama is life with the dull bits left out" |
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"I could see how it could be inspired — in other words, I think it's maybe a very clever move on the part of the screenwriter — but he wasn't that kind of person, and it's linked in the film to this idea that behind this guy who makes films about serial murderers is a guy who has violent impulses, which was not the case." |
On the scene in the film in which Hitchcock terrifies actress Janet Leigh into giving a believable performance in Psycho's infamous shower scene
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"Among those many people who have contributed to my life," said Alfred Hitchcock, while accepting the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1979, "I ask permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor. The second is a scriptwriter. The third is the mother of my daughter, Pat. And the fourth is a fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville." |
on his wife
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"hitchcock was married to the same women from 1926 until his death, and collaborated with her on most of his films." |
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"He made religion a routine; everyday he wore the same dark blue suit (he had dozens of identical ones), he ate the same lunch in his office, and when visiting Paris or New York he would stay in the same room in the same hotel." |
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"For, hitchcock famileraty bred order, and order allowed him to control the shape and substance of his films." |
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"HItchcock is the only director who's name became a genre" |
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"Hitchcock chose his own subject matter worked meticulously with screenwriters and minutely supervised each detail of production from hue of sunset to the sub clause in a contract." |
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"if it were a game, he played it brilliantly; ransacking all of cinemas resources to make a dramatic point." |
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"His first job outside of his father's business was as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company, which he started in 1915. This was the age at which his love for films developed as he went to the cinema in his spare time." |
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" Patricia Hitchcock, who was his daughter appeared in some of Hitchcock's most famous films." |
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"evil manifests itself not only in acts of physical violence, but also in the form of psychological, institutionalized and systemic cruelty." |
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"His final film, Family Plot (1976), pitted two couples against one another: a pair of professional thieves versus a female psychic and her working-class lover. It was a fitting end to a body of work that demonstrated the eternal symmetry of good and evil." |
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#2.
"Born As: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock" |
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He would have a cameo in all of his films this was an example of his wry humor |
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Reporter: What is the deepest logic of your films?
Hitchcock: To put the audience through them |
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n his mission in life:
"to simply scare the hell out of people." |
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"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table"
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On why people were fond of his thrillers:
"they like to put their toe in the cold water of fear." |
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To a woman who complained that the shower scene so frightened her daughter that the girl would no longer shower:
"Then Madam I suggest you have her dry cleaned." |
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There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game."
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"To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be."
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HIs leading ladies
Ingrid Bergman Grace Kelly Janet Leigh KIm Novak Tippi Hedren |
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