One shortcut he used was casting huge stars, knowing their immediate appeal would help us side with their characters.Īnother biggie for Hitchcock was taking advantage of whom we root for. Hitchcock said that was his main duty as a director.
Will it go off? Will they discover it? Can our brunchers be saved?Įssentially, it’s the difference between violence that comes out of nowhere in a slasher film and the slower, more satisfying experience of a thriller that engages our emotions and builds on them. But, if we are shown the bomb and kept cognizant of it while the two unaware people eat brunch and chat about how great it is to be back in a restaurant, Hitchcock would say he could draw the scene out for 15 escalating minutes of excitement and suspense. If the bomb explodes, surprising us, Hitchcock said it would supply 15 seconds of movie-going pleasure. To illustrate, he always used the example of two people sitting at a table, not knowing there’s a bomb under it. The key thing to remember about Hitchcock movies is the difference between surprise and suspense, the latter of which he famously mastered.
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But there’s no disputing the track record of the Englishman who gave us not just “Vertigo,” which the prestigious Sight & Sound poll says is the finest movie ever made, but so many other greats that in the list below I have to leave off movies I love - “North by Northwest,” “Strangers on a Train,” “The Birds,” “The Lady Vanishes,” “Frenzy” - because I want to marry seven other films even more. There are legions of reports that he wasn’t the world’s nicest person. Name a movie director who made more classics than Alfred Hitchcock.
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