Hitchcock- The Auteur
-Auteur features ➤An innocent man wrongly accused
Hitchcock doesn't put into motion, normal significations of dramatic event to come-the birds
-suspense is built over time by the repeated children's singing contrasted with the increase in the number of birds, the juxtaposition made the birds, in contrast seem even more sinister.
Hitchcock would build suspense in a unique way, with a slow pace, and take the audience to a great level of agitation and expectation and follow it with shocking events
In the evening dinner scene in Mitch's house a relaxed and at ease atmosphere is established, before the birds start to hush into the room down the chimney
A sudden horror greats the spectator when Mitch's mother, who is calmly looking round her father's house, witnesses him dead with plucked out eyes in the corner of his bedroom.
Costume is distracting to the audience-Hitchcock auteur
When the birds attack the house the women, Lydia, Melanie and the daughter just stand around helplessly and it is the only man, Mitch who is active with efforts to save them
Hitchock was all about trying to have a dramatic situation and exaggerate it where that dramatic moment happened
In such a short space of time the scene escalated from a quiet relaxing shower scene to a dramatic climax with a sudden shock of the figure appearing behind the shower curtain and sudden high pitch shrill-psycho
-In psycho, Marion being unclothed makes her extremely vulnerable
➤A hero burdened with the responsibility to prove his innocence
➤An emphasis on voyeurism - the characters watching and being watched/spied on.
➤An ‘ice cool’ blond female who the hero must pursue or tame
➤Recurrent motifs: Stairs, doorways, falling from high places, ‘the mcguffin’, overbearing mothers, the perfect murder, and charming villains.
-suspense is built over time by the repeated children's singing contrasted with the increase in the number of birds, the juxtaposition made the birds, in contrast seem even more sinister.
Hitchcock would build suspense in a unique way, with a slow pace, and take the audience to a great level of agitation and expectation and follow it with shocking events
In the evening dinner scene in Mitch's house a relaxed and at ease atmosphere is established, before the birds start to hush into the room down the chimney
A sudden horror greats the spectator when Mitch's mother, who is calmly looking round her father's house, witnesses him dead with plucked out eyes in the corner of his bedroom.
Costume is distracting to the audience-Hitchcock auteur
When the birds attack the house the women, Lydia, Melanie and the daughter just stand around helplessly and it is the only man, Mitch who is active with efforts to save them
Hitchock was all about trying to have a dramatic situation and exaggerate it where that dramatic moment happened
In such a short space of time the scene escalated from a quiet relaxing shower scene to a dramatic climax with a sudden shock of the figure appearing behind the shower curtain and sudden high pitch shrill-psycho
-In psycho, Marion being unclothed makes her extremely vulnerable
➤Hitchcock ‘signature’ :brief cameo in all his films
Hitchcock became a powerful and influential figure in the late 1950s film industry; he became a household name, worked with lots of major studios and had the power to cast any leading ladies of his choice.
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