After watching "Hitchcock" in 2012, I was going to write about Hitchcock this week.
After thinking about the topic, it's called an open video class: "How to Become Hitchcock?" ".
I was so excited that I wrote my self-introduction.
Ideally it should look like this:
Audience friends in front of the TV, what you are watching is the Hitchcock Theater. I'm your old friend Hitchcock, you can call me old Xi, it will be kinder. I hope that the TV will not alienate me from you.
Today we will prepare a special surprise for you, that is, I will tell you an episode of "How to Become Hitchcock" open class.
Um? I seem to hear someone object, saying that I want to see the case?
Sorry, I declare the objection invalid. Because I didn't film this episode at all.
Okay, let's not talk nonsense, in order to prevent me from accidentally giving you spoilers, let's get started!
First, let us define the core concepts of this lesson:
What is Hitchcock (if it is a thing)? Or who is Hitchcock (if he or she is an individual)?
Both then you have voluntarily opened the Hitchcock Theater, rather than "Citizen Kane" or "Gone with the Wind," I think you should mind the answer to that, right?
Yes, Hitchcock is right here. The man standing in front of you at this moment is a little fat, handsome, and mature.
At this time, someone is asking again, why do we want or want to be you, oh no, do we become me?
I think the answer to this question is up to you (after all, I am the most famous suspense master of this century).
First of all, you have to be a director, not a novelist. For writers, you can read Poe, Mary Shelley, Conan Doyle, etc. There are good choices in the history of literature. Today we are talking about movies.
A reporter asked me why I am so interested in suspense movies? In other words, why am I a master of suspense movies and not some other master? Regarding this question, I would say, isn’t life itself a suspense movie? Can we say that everything in life is intended? Unexpectedly, isn't it the attractive and interesting place of life?
Oh, I know, I talked about bomb theory. I have to say it again here, because this theory works well. It says this: in order to create suspense, you have to tell the audience something in advance. For example, two people are watching a baseball and there is a bomb under the table. The audience knows in advance that the bomb will explode in 5 minutes. What will the audience think at this time? They will think, stop talking about the ball game and run away! So the suspense is generated, and the rest is left to the montage (movie editing). However, there is a small accident, once you let the audience know that the bomb will explode, then the bomb can no longer hurt people.
To be honest, my childhood was full of surprises. My dad once tricked me into prison. Until now, I am still very afraid of the police. It may be that I have experienced too many frights in my teenage years, and I have a somewhat sensitive personality, and I am often on the verge of interpersonal relationships, so I always have various factors of anxiety in my heart, or some are forced to fall into danger. Hypothesis.
If you want to pick unexpected fruits often, it is best to have a childhood full of fright.
Okay, that's it.
Originally, here will talk about how he chooses an actress (at least find an actress who knows how to scream and be afraid, and ambitious), how to choose the script (at least at that time, there was no suspense film like "Scary". The protagonist died halfway.), and talk about his wife (the story of the woman behind it), and his music partner Bernard Herrmann. If you have time, let's talk about shots, pictures, scene scheduling and the like.
In short, there are too many things when talking about Hitchcock.
At this point, I stopped writing. Then, I started to laugh at myself, how could I write the course "How to Become Hitchcock"? Does anyone know exactly what this lovely director is thinking? It's probably a mystery!
In the end, I came to the conclusion: no one can imitate Hitchcock.
——End of this lesson
No, no wait, the words are still to be finished.
Look at the time Hitchcock was in, from the 1930s to the 1940s. No wonder he had so many inspirations. However, the emotions and anxiety of the people at that time were released. Even if it is madness, it is also an exposed madness, not hiding or twisting.
People nowadays have their anxiety in their hearts, and the themes are dedicated to psychological suspense movies. Hitchcock can also be regarded as a wave of the times.
Said that Hollywood doesn't like Hitchcock and has not won an Oscar for decades after making movies. It wasn't until 1979 that Oscar finally let go and awarded him the lifetime achievement award, which was reasonable and well deserved.
He said that this award is like the epitome of my life and belongs to me and my wife.
"Scary", you won't get tired after watching it a few times. After chatting, it's boring, so you have to see it in person.
Hitchcock bought all the scripts on the market in order to shoot the horror, just to prevent spoilers.
The director sits and watches the play, and the audience follows into the play, leading you onto the stage and revealing the ending by himself.
It doesn't matter if you can't guess, this is human nature.
Of course the audience likes Hitchcock.
Who doesn't like stories that seem to happen in reality but are out of reality.
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