Hitchcock is a world-renowned film director. He has produced more than sixty works in the past sixty years, and has dedicated many household classics to fans; he has created and perfected the art of creating suspense, making audiences on the screen "immersive", and his name has even become synonymous with suspense and horror. The successive "Greek girls" in Hitchcock's films have always been talked about by fans, they are often delicate and elegant, blonde hair fluttering, amorous and weak.
Hitchcock is said to have had a case of poisoning a blonde near his home when he was seven years old, and he still remembers it vividly, but it is uncertain how much it affected his filmmaking. One thing is certain, however, that he has a fixed, unique aesthetic interest in actresses that makes "Hitchcock Girl" a legendary term, and "Hitchcock Girl" has a unified standard: beautiful and incomprehensible, full of humor, and even the same body shape and psychological image - the appearance of cold but the inside is hot, elusive mysterious temperament, even hanging in the ear, and of course, the most important point - all blonde. For decades, generations of "Hitchcock girls" have been born on the screen, so let's review the representative "Hitchcock girls".
Joan Fontaine
In Hollywood, Joan Fontaine can be said to be one of the first "Greek girls". Born in October 1917, Before becoming the "Greek Girl", Fontaine was only a humble little actor, but her biological sister was Olivia de Havilland, who had played the second female number in Gone with the Wind. In 1939 Hitchcock was invited to develop from England to the United States, and she played the female lead in his first film after arriving in Hollywood, the role of Mrs. Derwent in Butterfly Dreams (1940). The role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and opened her way to stardom. The following year, she again served as the heroine of Hitchcock's "Deep Doubts" (1941) and successfully became an Oscar queen.
Butterfly Dream
Joan Fontaine's acting skills are simply amazing, the expression is always weak and innocent and panicked, looking so weak, simple and shy, like a fertilized fawn, playing a young Cinderella who has just entered society. The Cinderella in the fairy tale can finally live a happy life, while the real Cinderella has to face a cruel torture and search for the truth in the fog.
"Deep Doubt"
Female protagonist Joan Fontaine plays a shy bridesmaid from a wealthy family, the male protagonist is a gambling addicted playboy, after the two meet, the female protagonist quickly surrenders under the fierce attack of the male protagonist, lightning and the male protagonist married, but after marriage, the male protagonist does not change his habits, constantly lies to defraud the female protagonist's money, the lies are constantly exposed by the female protagonist, the development of the plot ups and downs, peaks and turns, the last scene is even more terrifying, Joan Fonden is frightened is really pitiful. It is said that Hitchcock likes to abuse the heroine.
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman worked with Hitchcock at the peak of her career, having just won an Oscar for "Under the Gaslight" and collaborating with Hitchcock for two consecutive years to co-create two classics, "Dr. Edward" (1945) and "The Beauty Plan" (1946), she is tall, large, and contrasts with the previous blondes. But the appearance of cold and private extravagance attracted Hitchcock, and the two even had a scandal at one point.
"Dr. Edward"
Ingrid Bergman plays a young and beautiful female doctor, the film tells the story of a female doctor and a patient with amnesia, the director of the mental hospital is about to retire, taking over the young and promising Dr. Edward, but this Dr. Edward is a fake, and lost his memory, and the suspense point runs through the whole play, until the end of the truth. The courage and boldness of the young female doctor is too admirable.
"Beauty Plan"
Ingrid Bergman plays the daughter of a war criminal, the plot is similar to "Color Ring", a beautiful woman is developed by military agents into female spies, as a girlfriend to spy on the secrets of the enemy leader, the female spy is forced to marry the enemy uncle, discovered during the spying, the enemy uncle secretly poisoned the female spy, the female spy fell ill in bed and died, the military agent rescued her. Seeing the back, the more I looked at it, the more uncomfortable it was, this girl had made too many sacrifices, it was too stupid.
Grace Kelly
Among the many "Hitch Girls", Grace Kelly is undoubtedly Hitchcock's favorite one, and hitchcock's only "true goddess", before working with Hitchcock, Grace Kelly was not famous, Hitchcock was found grace by a roll of discarded advertising mirrors in 1950, when her film salary was only $14,000, Hitchcock discovered the perfect heroine of his dreams through his eyes.
Hitchcock and Grace worked together for only two years, during which time they had three works: 1954's Murder by Telephone, Rear Window, and 1955's To Catch a Thief. Unfortunately, when Grace was promoting "To Catch a Thief" in Cannes, she met her future prince husband, and then married into the Monaco royal family, and has since disappeared.
Telephone Murder
Grace Kelly plays a young woman with a red apricot out of the wall, the male protagonist found that his wife and others have an affair, so he designed a perfect plan to murder his wife, but the plan can not catch up with the change, the wife from being murdered to a counter-murderer, the plot is even more confusing, Grace Kelly although she wears a green hat for her husband, but the temperament is noble, the demeanor is dignified and elegant, the appearance is cold as frost, the heart is like fire, her wonderful performance makes this morally inferior role sympathetic and loved, Be a sexy thing for men.
Rear Window
The photojournalist had to recuperate at home because of an accidental fall on a leg, usually idle and bored, often peeping at the neighbor to pass the boring time, and accidentally found that the dispute between the neighbor's husband and wife seemed to be abnormal, so it was suspected that it was a murder and dismemberment case.
Grace Kelly plays the girlfriend of a photojournalist, her appearance is very seductive, the dress is gorgeous and exquisite, the beautiful face is even more impeccable, in the process of solving the case, she is even more desperate, alone into the tiger's den, successfully cracked the case, can be described as brave and strategic.
"To Catch a Thief"
The film tells the story of the famous thief who personally investigates the thieves who imitate his methods and repeatedly commits crimes in order to get rid of the suspicion of theft, and launches a battle of wits and courage to catch thieves.
The male and female protagonists can be described as talented women, Grace Kelly's temperament is really too good, and the hands and feet are so elegant, exquisite and sexy, it is really a most perfect heroine. Unfortunately, despite her unparalleled beauty, she became the princess of Monaco early and did not make many movies. In 1962, Hitchcock invited Kelly to make a comeback starring in "The Thief" and "Birds", but had to give up against the objections of the people of Monaco.
Eva Mary Szent
Hitchcock, who had been preparing for North by Northwest (1959) for a decade, had been waiting for Princess Grace to return as a wise female agent to star, so he refused all the recommendations from the studio, and had to find a humble Mary Center until filming began.
As a "Greek girl", Eva Marie Saint, although not as famous as Grace or Fontaine, nor as well-lived as Doris, she not only won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but was also known for her beautiful blonde style.
Eva Mary Center trusts Hitchcock, and Hitchcock intends to make her the next "Grace", he teaches her to behave gracefully and even drink a drink during breaks to fit the identity of the film, just like the noble Grace, And Szent also feels that she has been completely transformed into another person, she remembers that Hitchcock only gave her three simple instructions:
"Lower your voice; don't use your hands; stare at the male protagonist and look him in the eye when you play with him."
North by Northwest
"North by Northwest" can be described as a high-end version of "Thirty-Nine Steps", which is a wonderful spy film and suspense film, telling the story of a good person who has been wronged, ordinary people are forced into a desperate situation, under the pressure of desperate to release their potential, break through psychological barriers, and constantly overcome difficulties to get out of the predicament.
This movie was introduced to China in the early years, it is a childhood classic, it is very enjoyable to watch many times, and the voice acting of Chinese is particularly good.
Tibby Headley
Tibby Headley is a typical blonde with exquisite features and a noble temperament. Although her acting skills are mediocre and her body is slightly taller, it does not hinder Hitchcock's plan to train her to be "the next Grace Kelly". Tibby Headley starred in Hitchcock's Birds in 1963 and Hitchcock's "The Thief" in 1963. Before filming, Headley was just a graphic model in New York and sometimes shot commercials, but her encounter with the Hitchcocks changed her fate completely.
Birds
What began as a family film, a single-parent family in which the mother's possessiveness of her son and her rejection of her son's girlfriend became a disaster film in which a large flock of birds inexplicably attacked humans, and women and children did not have the slightest ability to fight back under the attack of birds. In the end, the family fled the bay occupied by flocks of birds in a car.
Most of the birds in the film attack people use mechanical birds, but at the end of the film, when the heroine is attacked by a flock of birds in the attic, the fake bird is replaced by a real bird. Hitchcock did not tell Headley, Headley came to the set to learn the truth, Hitchcock asked the staff to throw cages of birds on her, Headdrick was pecked by the bird eyelids, on the verge of collapse, was immediately taken to the hospital, diagnosed with anxiety.
"The Thief"
The film tells the story of the domineering president who tries to subdue a beautiful female thief, but finds that she has a mysterious background hidden in her heart, as well as her strange relationship with her mother, and after a series of investigations, the mystery behind it is finally solved.
The heroine of "The Thief", Hitchcock originally belonged to Grace Kelly, but as the Princess of Monaco, she was inconvenient to steal on the screen, but in the end the heroine fell to Headley.
From the contradictions buried at the beginning of "Flock of Birds", to the filming of "Yan Thief", it finally broke out in full swing. The relationship between Headley and Hitchcock deteriorated completely, and both sides were quite dissatisfied, and Hitchcock banned Hedley for love and hate. Once-mighty Headley, hid a role in Hitchcock again.
Vera Miles, Janet Lee
Two blondes, Vera Miles and Janet Leigh, were featured simultaneously in the 1960 film Of Horrors. The film, which cost only $800,000, created a psychoanalytic model for suspense movies, and the scene of the bathroom killing became a classic horror scene.
Horror Story
Hitchcock's "Horror Story" can be described as a textbook-level suspense film, the camera movement, the close-up of the characters, the effect of light and shadow, the compact background music, the gripping plot, making the horror effect layered, so that the audience's suspense continues to increase, breathless, less than the last second, do not know the final result.
Quentin loves feet, Wu Yusen loves white pigeons, and that's the blonde here in Hitchcock, who once said, "Suspense is like a woman." The more space you imagine, the more excited you get. So, the blonde he picked, whether it was the actor himself or the character, was elegant and sophisticated, cold and always with a sexual charm.
Hitchcock has a complex feeling of fascination and contempt for the "Greek Girls", which just exposes his inner repression and pain. And it was this pain that gave birth to recurring themes in his films, as well as a neurotic sense of dread, that left us with a valuable artistic legacy.