Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was born on the 13th
of August 1899 in Essex, England. And unfortunately died on the 29th
of April 1980, in Bel Air, USA, RIP. Hitchcock is known as the Godfather of
Thrillers in the media industry (His nickname was the Master of suspense). Hitchcock’s use of the camera to maximise
anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing to really capture
the viewers’ attention and create the first real tension on screen that many
people experienced.
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| Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Psycho - 1960 |
Hitchcock directed, wrote and produced over 50 movies in a
career that lasted six decades. It lasted so long due to his unique way of
making the movies such as the camera technique of making the viewer feel in the
movie, by using the camera to roam around as a human would.
Another feature
Hitchcock did to raise his own profile was make appearances in his own movie
and have unique openings staring him. These were known as Hitchcock movie cameo's:
Many of his
films have been considered the best thrillers of all time, some notable ones
are: Psycho (1960) a story of a woman who steals $40,000 from her employer and
is terrorised by a deranged hotel manager, Rear Window (1954) where a man who
breaks his leg starts to spy on his neighbour, but it gets bad when he thinks
the neighbour has murdered someone. Rebecca (1940), North by Northwest (1959),
Vertigo (1958) And Dial M for murder (1954).
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| Scene from Rebecca - 1940 |
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| Vertigo a psychological thriller film, directed and produced by Hitchcock - 1958 |
A recent
movie named Hitchcock (2012) tells the story of Hitchcock’s obsession with the
actress in The Birds (1963) Jessica Tandy:
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