A brief discussion on how Hitchcock portrayed characters and filmed group scenes in "The Birds" and reflected on the "Sword of Damocles" war.

Opal 2022-04-21 09:01:27

Talking about how Hitchcock portrayed characters and filmed group scenes in "The Birds", as well as his prediction and reflection on the "Sword of Damocles" war. "The Birds" is a distinctive and controversial work. The criticism lies in the procrastination of the film, the lack of suspense and the ending without an ending. In my opinion, Hitchcock has a good grasp of the rhythm of the film. The following are the plot review and fragment analysis. pass::::--------------------------------------------- ——————————————————————————————————————— The blackbirds from the beginning seem to predict the movie Unfortunately, after the female protagonist entered the pet store (here Hitchcock has a cameo, that is, the fat man with two dogs, which is very easy to identify), she met the male protagonist and fell in love with him at first sight, which is also often in Hitchcock movies. (Blonde, the behind-the-scenes "interesting story" between the heroine and Hitchcock will not be discussed here..). After the heroine arrived on the island, it took a lot of time to describe the process of sending the bird, to My inference is that this is mainly for a brief summary of the terrain of the island and the characters of each character: the residents of the island are kind, give the special address of the male protagonist's family, and another key character of the film, the female teacher Pulled it out. The heroine was attacked by birds on the boat. In order to start the plot, it also paved the way for the subsequent large-scale bird attack in the plot. Because of the injury, the heroine entered the female teacher's house to rest naturally, and put the other A key figure, the mother of the male protagonist was brought out. We can infer that the mother is a neurotic and possessive woman in the two scenes where the male protagonist treats the female protagonist and eats. After the conversation with the female teacher, , we can also get the exact information, I was wondering: does this character echo Norman Bates from Psycho? "The Birds" (1963) is the second film after "Psycho" (1960). Here comes the first group scene of the film, which is also a very important scene in this film, the first siege of birds, From the sudden onlookers of the birds to the panic of the children, this film uses (forgot) clips to vividly show the whole process. After this scene, the female protagonist went to the female teacher's house, and the female teacher had fallen in a pool of blood. This was a "surprise" for our audience. I always thought that the female teacher would be fine, male protagonist The daughter was taken home smoothly, and the next is the climax of the film. Outside, the male protagonist added wood for the windows and doors, seems safe? Not necessarily, the audience is deeply suspicious of it. At this time, the mother's personality is also completely absent from the previous neuroticism. The last bird attack: the daughter and mother huddle in the study, the heroine huddles on the sofa, the hero is brave The fight with birds, the opened windows, the bloody hands of the male protagonist and those bitten by the bird's beak increased the fear in the audience's heart. Will the bird break into the door? But the scene stopped at the climax, what the hell was Hitchcock up to? ? In the next shot, everyone fell asleep from exhaustion, except the heroine who didn't sleep, but heard the birds chirping, so curiosity drove the heroine to go upstairs to check, and the fear of the heroine and the audience also rose to the extreme. David Fincher's "The Zodiac" has the same effect. It uses light to create a depressing atmosphere. As the heroine enters the door, the sense of fear rises to the extreme. The broken ceiling is full of birds. The heroine was shocked and fainted, so I edited it for a while (I can't comment here, after all, I'm not a professional film school student...) The heroine is covered in blood, this is the fear of muscle pain, goosebumps all over my body, goosebumps all over my body, downstairs The other people felt the movement and rescued the heroine. Because of the heroine's injury, everyone decided to send her to the hospital. At this time, the hero opened the door carefully and saw birds all over the ground. In the end, the male protagonist carefully took everyone into the car, and the car drove towards the sun and drove into the distance..

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Extended Reading
  • Scarlett 2022-03-26 09:01:03

    According to Zizek's understanding of the book, the bird in the film is a capitalized phallus stained with the real world's imagination, which is transformed into the pleasure of the maternal superego, and the transformation is that the mother of the child is "deprived" (as Lacan put forward the symbol of the phallus (that is, the son), one of the three structures of deprivation in the Oedipus stage; and the entry of the bird from behind the camera into the frame, which turns the objective vision of God into the quintessential subjective gaze of the murderous flock of birds. And it is assumed that the flock of birds is not part of the narrative reality before entering the frame but adds to the sense of fear around the viewer. Clips: 1 Panoramic medium shot close-up of dead bodies Triple shot 2 Gas station fire heroine portrait stop-motion puppet-like shock sight from different angles Mismatch between betting footage and footage of the fire fighting back Mental confusion and shock effects 3 The perfect shot of "Signs" and "It's too late". Before the sparrows poured into the house from the chimney, the three shots were from long to short. The heroine opened her lips and stepped on the second shot (subjective) A bird from the perspective)'s tail is used as a voice-over to make a short, redundant, and silent shot with a lag, and the third is ushering in an explosion

  • Elsa 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Hitch and his dog walk through the scene, the only bright spot. Are those flocks of birds an early green screen special effect? I wanted to watch it as a comedy but it was too boring. What I may want to express is a consistent style of repression, a sense of closure in the secret room to avoid the ferocity of the outside world. The dog blood plot has nothing to do with the future of mankind. By the way, those two centrifugal acacias are really cool fun.

The Birds quotes

  • Lydia Brenner: No, they're *not* fussy chickens.

  • Mitch Brenner: Her father's part owner of one of the big newspapers in San Francisco.

    Lydia Brenner: You'd think he could manage to keep her name out of print. She's always mentioned in the columns, Mitch.

    Mitch Brenner: Yes, I know.

    Lydia Brenner: She is the one who jumped into a fountain in Rome last summer, isn't she?

    Mitch Brenner: Yes.

    Lydia Brenner: I suppose I'm old fashioned. I know it's supposed to be very warm there, but, well, actually the newspaper said she was naked.