ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID: "I had a test pilot go out off Santa Monica. And dive with a camera on the front of the plane toward the ocean. Pull out at the last moment."
Alfred Hitchcock is still a complete mystery to film lovers. He explains his methods so openly, and yet his films never age, cannot be duplicated, and still live on after we know the suspense. He was an artist of first degree, and after all these years, it's safe to say he's still the master and always will be.
Hitchcock's understanding of human emotions and human nature is one of the things that made him the master. All the film schools in the world wouldn't be able to tell you things Hitchcock could teach you just by talking to you.
I saw Foreign Correspondent (for the 20th time) about three days ago, and that scene he described here is indeed magnificent. I did not pause to consider how it may have been done.
Alfred Hitchcock was a no nonsense man with a passion for horror and suspense and would go to the extremes of making his vision come to life on screen. He used real birds on the movie The Birds. And Tippi Hedren who played Melanie Daniels said he told her that the birds would be mechanical. But the scene where the birds attacked her in the bedroom were real. She said it was awful, but she did one more film for Hitchcock and tried to get out of contract with him, but he wouldn't let her.
From an aspiring filmmaker, making third- rate videos on RU-vid, I give the Master of Suspense all the respect the late Alfred Hitchcock deserves. He is among my most respected idol, among others like Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola, Bay, Lucas, and many others.
Hope things are going well with the film making. I graduated with a degree in media production but never followed through. Do you have so work to showcase?
I'm a huge Hitchcock fan. So many of his movies are almost perfect. I guess I like The Trouble with Harry most of all, but Foreign Correspondent is definitely one of my favorites.
@oldhatcinema I just watched it again last week. It's soooo cool, Mildred Natwick, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry Mathers, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Dunnock, John Forsyth, Royal Dano- everybody is so great with the deadpan humor, and the music just makes it better.
@@paulamiles9559 It really is! I first saw it when I was about 12 and getting obsessed with dark comedies 😅 I revisited it more recently and appreciated it all the more. You're right: the cast is indeed phenomenal.
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Londres, 13 de agosto de 1899-Los Ángeles, 29 de abril de 1980) fue un director de cine, productor y guionista británico. Pionero en muchas de las técnicas que caracterizan a los géneros cinematográficos del suspenso y el thriller psicológico, tras una exitosa carrera en el cine británico en películas mudas y en las primeras sonoras, que le llevó a ser considerado el mejor director de Inglaterra, Hitchcock se trasladó a Hollywood en 1939.
The look on Hitchcock's face was priceless when he's telling the story about the man having fallen down the manhole. The point he was making was how ashamed the audience would be for having laughed on finding out about the injuries etc.- but they laughed anyway as he was telling it. I suspect they were laughing because they got his point, but he didn't realise that at first.
Gary Cooper would have been WONDERFUL in Foregin Correspondent. I dare not run down Joel Macrae.... he was my mom's 'dreamboat actor' when she was in high school..
@LouiseCerrutti I like the "squirting out gumption" part. How is that achieved? An underused word to be sure, like gargantuan or flibberdigibbit. What is a McGuffin? Inquiring minds want to know!! Is that as in, "I'll take a McGuffin, Bob.", or "I'll have a McGuffin, Horace"? IS he a 70's T.V, detective? Have you ever seen the movie "Moon" with Sam Rockwell? Great flick! I think there is an odd-looking bird designated as a McGuffin. although i think the G remains uncapitalized.
I'd have to agree with that statement because LIFE is the best show running, created by the Master producer/director/screenwriter. This life truly is the Creator's movie with each of us playing a role.
Yes, Albert Basserman was good. I remember him in the "Red Shoes" made after the war in England, with Anton Walbrook ( he was ever better!) I do think joel McCrea was perfectly fine in Foreign Corresspondent. He had the right naive American quality
@jcmangan Maybe I skipped over it, but when did Hitchcock single out Ford and Hawks? I don't think his remark was directed towards those two bold and original filmmakers. It was directed towards the more generic, b-movie action westerns where the generically-filmed violence simply served the purpose of moving the plot forward without giving substance to the plot or characters as Ford and Hawks did. Like Hithcock, they understood that the audience had to feel involved in the action.
Yes, Hitch, finally we got the message, the most brilliant directors of your time - John Ford, Howard Hawks and so on - were just a bunch of western photographers, not directors at all. :-) In retrospective hearing the Hitch is a little bit like hearing Brecht talking to one of the big studio producers once upon those times: "There are two great directors in this century: Chaplin and Brecht." Producer asked back: "I agree, but who the fuck is Brecht?" :-)
@LouiseCerrutti A very pleasent response to my perfunctory remark. Your poetry, while somewhat obnoxious, is still well articulated to the point of didacticism, clever but puerile and morose. You should write a book and make a million or two. I write poetry using an iambic pentameter involving, but not limited too, food rhymes. (Good, Food, Mood) to give you a horrible example. No metaphors similes, homilies, down-homeisms, onomotopeas, palindromes, or non-sequiters involved.
@JamesPopaloaf Um ... or u can go watch the movie and calm down. U never see a stab but u do see the knife touch the skin... maybe u shud check before opening ur mouth.
really next to Mel brooks. lol you can't even put those in the same line with laughing. that is funny. comparing no talent with real talent like Hitchcock. to brooks want to be....wishing he could have been. great.
