#Alfred hitchcoc series
A series of well-received films during the 1940s led to Hitchcock briefly forming the independent company Transatlantic Pictures before entering his "golden decade" making films for Warner Bros. Selznick on the Academy Award winning Rebecca (1940). He married fellow worker Alma Reville in 1926 and she remained a key collaborator throughout his career.īy the late 1930s, his profile was rising internationally and he moved to Hollywood in 1939 to work for David O. He directed 23 films during the first phase of his career in England, including Blackmail (1929), one of the early British sound films. He began working in the British film industry at the start of the 1920s as a title designer before progressing to become a director. In a career spanning six decades he directed over fifty feature films, many of which are now regarded as classics, including The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Notorious (1946), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963). Except when the surprise is a twist, that is, when the unexpected ending is, in itself, the highlight of the story.Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was a British film director and producer, often referred to as "The Master of Suspense" due to his mastery of the suspense thriller genre. The conclusion is that whenever possible the public must be informed. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. There is a bomb beneath you and it is about to explode!" The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: "You shouldn't be talking about such trivial matters. In these conditions, the same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. The public is aware the bomb is going to explode at one o'clock and there is a clock in the decor. The bomb is underneath the table and the public knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchist place it there.
The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, "Boom!" There is an explosion. Let's suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. We are now having a very innocent little chat. “There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two.
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