Alfred Hitchcock: Auteur
Alfred Hitchcock is truly an auteur. Each movie he made was a work of his own ideas and his own vision, and each film is unique. There are, however, various similarities between the different films he created. Both “Vertigo” and “The Birds” revolve around a central man/woman relationship. It is these relationships which set the movies in motion and move the stories along. In “The Birds” Melanie (Tippi Hedren) meets Mitch (Rod Taylor) early in the film. They start their relationship off on the wrong foot, because Mitch plays a joke on Melanie. The two have an argument, and Melanie decides to get even. She drives up to Bodega Bay where he stays with his mother and sister with the plan to play a practical joke on him.