E. Direction. Some directors have a stronger hand than others in the making of a film. Directors may be interested in different elements of filmmaking. What role did the director have in producing the film you chose? What are the directors hallmarks?
The director in this movie (Alfred Hitchcock) is not the greatest director today. There are many flaws in his directing according to Hollywood and the modern day. I do not disagree that this movie and director was bad in its time period (1946). Most people born after this time period think that this movie is outdated and just plain sucks. The only reason this movie is ranked in the top 100 is because you got this list off a bad site that does not show the actual 100 top movies, keyword modern. This film had bad characterization. I didn’t know the characters names until one half into the movie. This movie was confusing and lacked a plot. I think that Alfred Hitchcock was a very troubled man. He worked so hard on creating great movies that he himself did not have time to truly enjoy life. Some of his movies resemble this. In the movie “The Birds,” birds began to become troubled by something. These birds became poisoned and turned to an evil lifestyle. In “Notorious” Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) reflects this in a way. The birds and Sebastian, the Nazi, are both alike in evilness. This Nazi that Ingrid marries tries to poison people with a poisonous substance in wine bottles. In the birds the birds are trying to transmit their poison to others just as the Nazi’s tried to infect the world with in world war two. I think Hitchcock truly realized what the world meant in this time period. People in this time period were terrified of the war and Germany. Every rich woman went to the movies these days and Hitchcock made it the most thrilling through history. The main target market at this time was high class women and men. These were the high class not cut out for the soldier’s hard life. They had it easy in America making money off the poor. When Hitchcock put a high class American in the crutches of a evil Nazi, that is what truly made this movie most suspenseful. I give Hitchcock a lot of credit for making such a prevalent and successful thriller in his day and age. However he is outdated and now in pathetic compared to modern civilization. One of Hitchcock’s claim to fame is the bitty’s in his films. If there are hot ladies all the men will want to go to the movies. Not that many people in the nine-teen forties were smart enough to know this simple fact. Hitchcock was smart for his time period and I think truly is a great director. He should remain in history books forever. tor’s hallmarks in this and other films?
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Jeremy--your opinion of Hitchcock changes throughout your review. You think he's outdated and terrible but that he should be remembered for all time? Remember that old movies don't make them bad, it just makes them old--just like new movies don't make them all good, it just makes them new. Check out some crtical analysis of The Birds: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1002448-birds/
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