Alfred Hitchcock
Quick Facts- NAME: Alfred Hitchcock
- OCCUPATION: Director, Producer, Television Personality, Screenwriter
- BIRTH DATE: August 13, 1899
- DEATH DATE: April 29, 1980
- EDUCATION: St. Ignatius College, University of London
- PLACE OF BIRTH: London, United Kingdom
- PLACE OF DEATH: Bel Air, California
- FULL NAME: Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
- NICKNAME: The Master of Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock is a director, producer and screen writer , and he moved to Hollywood in 1939.The first film he made there, Rebecca (1940), won an Academy Award for best picture. Some of his most famous films include Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964).
His work became famous and well known for the depictions of violence, used to create complex psychological characters and his plot decoys enabling his audience to understand his more unusual characters, which were people with different personalities, and psychological problems. For his time Alfred Hitchcock was considered eccentric and compared to be very different to other directors of the era, he became a cultural icon.
Alfred Hitchcock had a morbid wit, and in some ways was considered a sadistic man and he created the suspense genre, and is generally considered one of the most creative minds in movie history. He pushed boundaries and limits, and he created hundreds of films and had a very certain style and several reoccurring themes within his films.
Hitchcock used these themes several times:
Mistaken Identity
Innocents falsely Accused
Ordinary people thrust into extraordinary peril
Trust and Betrayal
Perfect crimes and double crosses
People not being who they appear to be
Lovers who turns out to be bad for each other
There is always dark humor and suspense portrayed in Hitchcock films, and also sexual tensions and the darker exploration between violence and sex.
Hitchcock knew that the suspense is generated when the audience can see danger the characters cannot see or can suspect. While his later films grew more graphic they were less effective his earlier work could create a vivid terror in the viewers mind with very little splatter on the screen.
His work became famous and well known for the depictions of violence, used to create complex psychological characters and his plot decoys enabling his audience to understand his more unusual characters, which were people with different personalities, and psychological problems. For his time Alfred Hitchcock was considered eccentric and compared to be very different to other directors of the era, he became a cultural icon.
Alfred Hitchcock had a morbid wit, and in some ways was considered a sadistic man and he created the suspense genre, and is generally considered one of the most creative minds in movie history. He pushed boundaries and limits, and he created hundreds of films and had a very certain style and several reoccurring themes within his films. Hitchcock used these themes several times:
Mistaken Identity
Innocents falsely Accused
Ordinary people thrust into extraordinary peril
Trust and Betrayal
Perfect crimes and double crosses
People not being who they appear to be
Lovers who turns out to be bad for each other
There is always dark humor and suspense portrayed in Hitchcock films, and also sexual tensions and the darker exploration between violence and sex.
Hitchcock knew that the suspense is generated when the audience can see danger the characters cannot see or can suspect. While his later films grew more graphic they were less effective his earlier work could create a vivid terror in the viewers mind with very little splatter on the screen.
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