Alfred Hitchcock Film Analysis

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This is Alfred Hitchcock most accomplished movie, his true masterpiece. He was so confident about the outcome of this movie that he produces the project. He believes in the story and the work he did from the begging. It became one of the most emblematic movies of his career and when the movie was released he was making his best movies. In a spur of the moment decision, Marion Crane decides to leave Phoenix with the $40,000 her boss entrusted to her to deposit at the bank. She's headed to her boyfriend Sam in Fairvale, California and the money will finally let them start their life together. After having spent a night in her car, she can't quite make all the way and spends her second night at the Bates Motel. There she meets Norman Bates, a …show more content…
So he decided to shoot it as a side project for his TV show. In case the studio wasn't pleased with the result the movie would cut in two or three episodes of his program. He was really meticulous about the scenes and how he was going to shoot them. Hitchcock always said that he conceived the angle of shooting before production and he never change his mind about the wanted outcome. That may be a lie, but he is one of the most influential directors in history, so who knows the guy was a …show more content…
He was one of the few directors that had the chance to grow up with the movie he saw most of the changes and was a master at adapting those changes into his movies. From 3D, Widescreen, the shapes of camera and microphones, silence and talking movies. Color or black and white. He masters it all. He took command of his movies and normally only accepted the titled of director even though he produced, wrote, edited, among other duties. He was hands on in his movie and had a vision of what he wanted. He was able to do a movie per year, which know a day is insane considering the amount of work he put into his projects. This movie was the piece id resistance of all his knowledge as his work the camera and direction to

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