Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 in London, England.
No one would have thought that this name would be recorded in the history of film, and it will still be looked up to by countless people more than a hundred years later.
Hitchcock has been called the "Shakespeare of cinema".
From his entry into the film industry in 1920 until his death in 1980, he made a total of 59 films. "Rear Window", "North by Northwest", "Ecstasy", "Birds", "Horror" these five are hitchcock's golden age of suspense films, his suspense style is different from others, the way of creating suspense is more unique.
Hitchcock's interpretation of "suspense" is always different, such as the same story:
Another narrative technique is
This is the famous Greek suspense, which can be expressed in Hitchcock's famous words: bombs must not explode, bombs cannot explode, and the audience will always be immersed in a worried mood.
Hitchcock once mentioned in his book that he was anxious for a long time because he threw an unquenched cigarette butt out of the window while driving, afraid that the police would come to the door. It can be seen that Hitchcock is a sensitive and often uneasy person, and what he is best at is to transfer this anxiety to the audience, pull everyone into the field he is most familiar with, and then "do whatever he wants", maybe this is how he succeeds in shooting horror films and thrillers.
Facing up to one's own character weaknesses and letting it shine a different brilliance is worthy of the master's brain circuit.
Hitchcock's films, unlike the suspense films of the same genre, shock people's fear nerves with those gorgeous stunts, he is good at creating a horror atmosphere in the subtleties, and the seemingly ordinary pictures in the movie can make your heart beat faster, which is where his films stand out.
Film History: This film can be called a pioneer of animal disaster films, and is Hitchcock's attempt to surpass "Horrors".
Released in 1963, Flock of Birds occupies a very special place in Hitchcock's work, and the film has attracted much attention since its release.
Thousands of faces, everyone understands the film in different ways, many conclusions prove that the complexity of Hitchcock's work, his work with its unique thinking and perspective into the problem of human nature, researchers will unconsciously seek psychological, ethical, religious, political and other elements from the film, the director's mind and visual presentation will let the audience in shock, feel the deep meaning of the film.
The violent element of Birds is the birds.
A flock of black, numerous, large, pointed birds. They are obviously aggressive toward humans, the kind that can kill people, these birds will launch unpredictable attacks on people, very suddenly, the film depicts these scenes always make people "flesh pain", after all, these birds will use their blade-like beaks to peck people into a sieve.
Although there are not so many cool special effects, it sets the standard very high in terms of thriller suspense. There is no soundtrack in the whole film, filled with the sound of birds flapping their wings, and even the skin begins to sting at the end, and the scary point of this film is that you also feel the pain of body skin...
But the horror of this movie often doesn't come from monsters, but from space
In the movie, the protagonist's family is trapped in the room by the flock of birds and cannot get out, the old man, the child and the male protagonist are tired late at night, they go to sleep, and the only sober little girl is curious to go upstairs to check, the audience knows that she is out of danger from everyone, so she will follow the emotional tension, her every move also caused the audience to worry...
There are also a large number of birds attacking children in the film, from the beginning when the children are playing on the beach and are suddenly attacked, to the birds that start attacking the school.
The space in the film is often trapped in a closed place, so the background of the film is in a small town, and the plot setting cannot easily escape the reason: one is that the geographical environment like the seaside is relatively closed; the other is that the birds gather in the sky of the town, and they may be attacked and killed at any time.
What is very special is that the movie is not scary at the beginning, but the bird is used as the main clue from beginning to end, and at the beginning, the hero and heroine meet at first sight, which will make the audience feel that this is a love movie... It is not until the 25th minute of the film that the first danger begins to descend, and the audience can also feel that the protagonists are in potential danger, and the uneasiness is accompanied by the audience and the protagonists in the film.
Judging from the development process of the film, the threat of the flock of birds to human beings can be said to be slowly and rhythmically increasing, and the rhythm of the film has also changed from soothing to slowly tightening, and then to getting faster and faster...
Hitchcock didn't want to tell the audience why the birds mutated to attack humans because he thought that if the reason was explained, the film would turn into a sci-fi disaster movie. He wanted to make the film look more realistic, so that these docile animals that usually existed around the audience suddenly became ferocious.
I believe many people do not know that the film is based on the short story of Hitchcock's friend, and the novel is based on the real incident of the birds attacking people at that time...
Many people will feel that the film is bad and did not explain things clearly, which is actually explained at the beginning of the film.
At the beginning of the bird shop, the male owner asked the female owner: Don't you think these birds in cages are very pitiful?
The heroine laughed and said: Is it impossible to let them fly everywhere?
So in the second half of the film, humans are trapped in a space under the attack of birds.
Isn't this the story of nature's revenge?
Hitchcock incorporated his skilled thriller and newborn disaster film skills into Flock of Birds, where birds wage war on people and lock humans in enclosed spaces, much like people keeping birds in gilded bird cages.
What do you think flocks of birds are? Of course they can be just birds, and although ornithologists have made it clear that birds are not aggressive, anything can happen near the end of the world; so they are not just birds, they can be viruses, weapons, fears of the unknown, and fears of man himself.
A good metaphor for "Flock of Birds" should be a perfect combination of reality and concept.
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