Alfred Hitchcock

The experiences you have while watching a film are very interesting. Typically within a film, you, the viewer, is presented with a problem or situation and it is up to you to come up with the solution. These situations may have good results or bad, but it is always up to the viewer to discover the solution. Discovering a solution is not always easy. Historian David Bordwell believes that the narration in a film cues and constrains its viewer .Directors always find ways to confuse a viewer by…

I'm not even going to pretend that I'm qualified enough to critique the masterpiece known as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The film is pretty much near perfection in all regards and there is nothing I could say that hasn't been heard a million times before. However, there is one thing I want to talk about and that is, the differences between the movie and book. Alfred Hitchcock is quoted as saying that everything that is in Psycho was from the book by Robert Bloch. For the most part, that statement…

have read always shine light on topics I have not noticed in the film. These new discoveries help me to have a greater appreciation for that film and the work that was put in to perfect every scene. After reading a critic review, I discovered that Alfred Hitchcock’s, “Vertigo”, was based on a French Novel, “D’entre les Morts,”. The novel translates into Among the Dead, and is a 1954 crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud. The novel was published only four years before Hitchcock’s movie.…

day after you leave it physically? Will your haters still hate on you? Will the ones who once didn’t have a nice word to say about you, praise you at your funeral? Will they care now that you are gone? Many scholars including film director Alfred Hitchcock argue that characters are more important dead than alive and I agree with this statement. It takes death for people to care about you even though it is much too late. Therefore this shows that gratitude is much stronger than regret.…

To my thought, North by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock's most charming film. It has an affable lead in Cary Grant, a hazardous, hot blonde in Eva Marie Saint and a super smooth scoundrel in type of the radiant James Manson. It has a gleaming script, marvelous set pieces and, since I'm obviously being alliterative and exciting score. It is a genuine great of Hollywood silver screen. In North by Northwest, Hitchcock utilizes a blend of these two types of portrayal to tell what a generally complex…

A Suspicious Bandit and an Inquisitive Beauty Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant director of the mid-twentieth century directing very famous films such as Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). The film To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, is a suspense-thriller about an ex-jewel thief accused of committing crimes parallel to his work in the past. In the film, the main characters John Robie (Cary Grant) and Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly) were…

the audience on the screen, should express and reflect the personality of the director. This policy later became known as the auter theory. These critics were renowned for their praise of some Hollywood directors, particularly Howard Hawkes, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford who they admired for their individual styles. For the best part of a decade these critics argued their beliefs in the pages of cahiers du cinema. It was in their criticisms of other peoples work that subliminally they…

Norman Bates describes life as a trap, or more accurately, our own private traps that we cannot get out of – no matter how hard we try. While this is true for many characters in the film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it is most true about Norman himself. The surprising information we learn about Norman throughout the movie proves this point more and more. Norman suffers from a multiple personality disorder brought on by his desires. Norman lives as both himself and his deceased mother. By…

Respected for his artistic efforts, Lewis had that special quality the French called auteur when making a picture truly in his vision. Lewis was a chameleon with each film he directed and still managed to input his style while maintaining the mood of the characters in the story and designing the scenery to fit the tempo of the film, as Hirsch recognizes, “Lewis shifts his own style to accommodate the style of his characters and their setting. The detective in So Dark the Night, on the surface,…

other tenants around him while procuring evidence in this unique mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Throughout the film, Hitchcock employed some fascinating techniques and utilized organic and new ideas to create a rich, suspenseful film. The three aspects of the film that stood out were his use of music and sound design, his point of view editing, and the opening and closing of the film. Hitchcock has come up with exclusive techniques to tell stories that vary from other films.…