It's the *only* way to Speak English, & not botch one's Enunciation; Pick *any Radio Station* & listen to a News Broadcast. "Next *Febuary, the Govurment will legislate new Speed limits of 105 Klomaters". Everyone should Learn from Him.
I saw another interview with Hitchcock that he explained about being afraid of the police b/c when he was 5 years old he did something bad and his father sent him to the police station with a note. The police officer read the note and put him in an empty jail cell for 5 minutes. Then told him that's what we do with bad little boys. Then he let him go home.
quite simply THE greatest director that ever lived. Imagine, "Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds" in succession? who can match that? no one
shaqpopcorn34 No one in the history of cinema has the track record of Hitchcock, not even Kubrick. Granted, he is without question the most influential since WW11. The whole 'special effects' era that we're in started with his 1968 film 2001, but! if you look at what Hitch produced in the 1950's and 60's after he took complete control of his production (Rear Window, Stranger on a Train, The Man who knew too Much etc; no one's even close. No contest.
shaqpopcorn34 Kubrick was more creative and influential, for sure, but no one in the history of the medium comes close to the career (in length and quality) that Mr. Hitchcock had. And I think Mr. Kubrick would agree with me on that.
not going to argue who is better because theyre both my 2 favourite directors, but Kubrick had a better streak of great movies. Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut
I remembered his rule of relieving the audience of the suspense, till at the end of the interview he cleared that leprosy isn't contagious. That's where he relieved us.
@@AA-sn9lz You can leprosy is transmitted is through droplets of moisture passing, hence the mention of the tear, that’s what’s so terrifying about it, he has contracted it.
"I'm scared of policemen. I'm scared of driving cars...I'm mostly afraid of the law..." said Hitchcock in regards to 'what scared him most.' Hmmmm, intriguing -
Sucks how when he takes a tangent on a question and gives the interviewer a ton of interesting follow ups, they just forge ahead and redirect back to the questions on their paper. Cavett was the same.
"....dour,........" (or not) He is still a beloved man by millions here and across the Atlantic. Such a fantastic story teller. What an interesting fear he has of the police (my fingertips are damp from fear of just thinking this). It summarizes the threshold between rational and irrational, objectivity and paranoia, ....As well, this specific fear depicts a persons realization of being a whisper away from losing control over ones own life. The vulnerability of us all. Somehow I think this topic informs his more scary (psychological thrillers) movies.
Dourness and seriousness???? Had Tom never watched The Alfred Hitchcock Hour?? Hitch has a very sardonic sense of humor, and could be downright silly at times.
The interviewer in my opinion is a dim self-righteous prick. Calling Hitchcock an imposing person, asking if he, "has a sense of humor" I find that very ballsy as well as shallow- and then to practically insult the great mans appearance. The overall mood of the interview is fine but I find the interviewer to be bad. Hitch's work is packed with humor, in fact I'd say it's equal parts humor and suspense.
Brooke Hanley I'm pretty sure this is a 1980 re-run of an interview from May 1973, when the Tomorrow Show had just started. Synder says at the start of the broadcast that "we are going to look back at my interview from seven years ago with Alfred Hitchcock, who died earlier this year", or words to that effect.
It would have been interesting to delve into why he is so fond of murder and especially strangling and so passionnate about blondes. Not to mention almost the same motives reappear again and again, for example young and innocent and Frenzy.
70s fashion fucking sucked. The long hair is neither here nor there (except for that ghoulish straight-hair-with-a-part-down-the-middle horseshit girls were doing), but that has to be the worst dressed decade in American history. Certainly when it comes to men's formal fashion. Hitchcock is a legend though. Interesting interview. Especially the part of suspense being the giving of information, and how that is ultimately more interesting than a who-done-it which waits to last til the last minute to reveal anything (which many mistake for suspense).
