Sir Alfred Hitchcock: A unique perspective of movie making style, always done for the viewers

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Alfred Hitchcock popular culture

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Nothing in Mister Hitchcock's childhood foretold him to pursue his great career in movie making.
The little Hitchcock was quiet, shy and reserved. He spent a part of his scholarship in a Jesuit college which gave him a critical opinion of integrity of people working for churches. He also had had issues with authority symbolizing the law: when he was only five years old, his father sent him to the police and put him in a guard cell. We can suppose that his relationship with his mother was full of tension, part of the movie illustrates the mother's behavior in a destructive way of helping child growth instead of a loving and nurturing the child.

After his father's death in 1914, he started working for an advertising company as a creative member and learnt from this experience to develop his sensitivity for image. Even when he moved to America, he was still concerned about the historical events in Europe: on the Second World War context, he was involved in the aim of convincing the American government to take part in the fight. In his movie "Foreign Correspondent", Hitchcock highlighted the Nazi involvement, and demonstrated the need to stop their progression.
He had reached a strongly defined movie making style, which made his contribution to any movie easily noticeable.

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[...] Sir Alfred Hitchcock: A unique look on movie making style, always done for the audience Sir Alfred Hitchcock: A unique look on movie making style, always done for the audience. Nothing in Mister Hitchcock's childhood foretold him to pursue his great career in movie making. The little Hitchcock was quiet, shy and reserved. He spent a part of his scholarship in a Jesuit college, which gave him a critical opinion of integrity of people working for churches. He also had had issues with authority symbolizing the law: when he was only five years old, his father sent him to the police and put him in a guard cell. [...]

[...] Furthermore, his role for popular culture has not only been linked to an historical time, still nowadays he left his prints on others editor's works: Brian De Palma, Gus Van Sant, even Steven Spielberg was inspired by his movies. REFERENCES Boyd, D., (2006) After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality. University of Texas Press. Brainy Quote (2009) Alfred Hitchcock Quote [Online] [Accessed 3 December 2009] Available at: Chandler, C. (2005) It's only a movie, Alfred Hitchcoc,k A Personal Biography. Simon & Schuster Ltd. Conrad, P. [...]

[...] - Suspense: the secret recipe of Hitchcock was to install a lag between awareness of his main character and what the audience his informed of. By letting audience knowing more than the character, he allow each spectator to figuring out what is going to happen and letting their imagination doing part of the horror, showing themselves their bad side. - The trigger: introducing an element which might be a cause of disease for someone or some institution and turning it as a second ground element in the middle of the movie was a process to create surprise in the audience. [...]

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