Alfred Hitchcock: Auteur
Submitted by Bradalius on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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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. As soon as she arrives in Bodega Bay, things start happening. Birds start
attacking, and after two days, the entire town explodes into chaos. Birds are destroying
buildings and killing people, and at the same time the romance is building between the
hero and heroin. At the end of the film, Melanie is attacked by a large mass of birds, and
Mitch is forced to take to a hospital. This final sequence adds one final moment of
tension, before bringing the film to a close.
"Vertigo" has a different plot than "The Birds," but the story progresses in much
the same way. The story starts by laying the grounds for John's (Jimmy Stewart) fear of
heights, and then starts developing the relationship between John and Madeleine (Kim
Novak). In this case, however, John doesn't follow Madeleine because of a practical
joke. He does it because Madeleine's husband, a college friend of his asks him to follow
her because he suspects she is possessed by an...
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