Only type of people who will like this movie are
i) pretentious fools
ii) pseudo intellectuals
iii) hitchcock blind fans
Tippi Hedren isn't my favorite, but this is better than Marnie.
Rod Taylor isn't my favorite either.
AVADA KEDAVRA!!!
nothing to do with who the actors are
many people call this hitchcock's best
as per me, they are fools
NOBODY has called this "Hitchcock's best", you FOOL.
Yet the film is still astonishing in its editing, use of color and
photography. There is an air of creepy disquiet, and Hitch's
framing and tonality still pack a punch.
Go and watch "The Matrix" (gee, that's a film with SIGNATURE - couldn't
possibly be remade, as the direction, writing and "performances" Keanu
Reeves is SUCH an acting talent...).
You get the picture.
Now get lost.
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I'd love to see the scientific theory behind your classifications of people who like this film. It sounds so academic.
And no, story is not always everything. Many fans and critics praise Argento and his stories are often threadbare.
Stop trying to push your personal assessment of films onto everyone as if you are stating facts.
if u make a far fetched stupid story, have the balls to explain it, else i would abuse the movie, as simple as that
I think if you look at it like this -- so this is Hitchcocks contribution to the horror film genre. How different or ground breaking is this film compared to other horror films. You look at the idea of the monster or evil -- he uses birds.
You look at how Hitchcock builds unease and creepiness. Rod Taylor walks around his front porch amongst birds that he doesnt know when they will attack him. Its quite a creepy scene.
You look at how Hitchcock refused to provide a resolution. There is no resolution. It just ends. No credits no nothing.
Pretty different IMO.
This isn't my favourite Hitchcock film and I don't think its his masterpiece. But I really like the idea behind the birds and the very fact that he doesn't explain them on purpose. The way I see it, the Birds represent bad things and evil and how those things happen to people and how people look for a reason or explanation for why bad things and evil happen to them or other people. You see if every day in your every day life. When some gets cancer. "Oh well he smoked a lot". Or when someone dies or gets raped in a park, "Oh, what was she doing by herself in the park at that time". People look for reason and explanation and offer it even if they are completely wrong and have very few details about the bad event that happened.
The scene in the diner where the mother is hysterical and blames Melanie for all that is happening and calls her evil. That was pretty much it. People trying to explain and justify why bad things happen and Hitchcock is telling the audience that bad things and evil sometimes just happen for no reason and there is no explanation for it. Bad thing sand evil just all of a sudden just happen and the innocent people that happen to be in that place at that time are the ones that have to deal with it. At the same token bad things and evil just ends and leaves and there is no clear explanation of why it ends.
Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again. share
Curious as to if your opinion and expectations of art (paintings, sculpture) is the same as it is for movies.
Ephemeron.