Things you didn't know about "The Birds"

Rosemarie 2021-10-22 14:35:03

1. This is a monster movie belonging to Hitchcock, which later influenced many monster movies, such as the Mummy series. Spielberg is a big fan of Hitchcock, and he studied "The Flock of Birds" in depth when he filmed "Jaws".

2. Hitchcock will often watch silent films with his crew. He believes that if a film can make the audience feel the plot and emotion in the film without words, it is a good film, so he minimizes it as much as possible. The dialogue in this film. The most obvious example is that the heroine goes to the hero's house to send love birds, and there are also four people who attack the heroine and the heroine in the house by a flock of birds.

3. The ending of the film was originally that they drove away from home and arrived in a small town. The town was also attacked by a group of birds. The corpses were everywhere. When they drove onto a road, a group of birds suddenly flew to the roof of their car. Then, they started to peck the roof of the car. The roof was about to crack and the bird was about to fly in. At this time, the male protagonist suddenly accelerated. Using inertia, the bird was left behind. They drove to San Francisco. But Hitchcock gave up this ending, beyond everyone's expectations.

4. The reason why Hitchcock did not want to tell the audience why these birds mutated and attacked humans was because he believed that if the reasons were explained, the movie would become a science fiction disaster. He wanted to make the film look more real, so that these docile animals that usually exist around the audience suddenly become ferocious.

5. The film is based on a short story by Hitchcock's friends, and the novel is based on the real incident of birds attacking people at that time.

6. The female protagonist worked as a model for 13 years before staring in this film, and her career is in decline. She also took many commercials. One of the candy ads was spotted by Hitchcock, and Hitchcock dragged someone to contact him. Up her. The hostess went to Hitchcock’s house to train for acting, and Hitchcock was her acting teacher. At first, the heroine thought it was a role in Hitchcock's story collection. One night, Hitchcock called the heroine out for dinner, gave her three golden bird brooches, and told her that we hope you can appear in "The Birds" Female number one. The hostess burst into tears on the spot.

7. The male lead will directly call Hitchcock as Alfred on the set.

8. There is a crow named Archie on the scene. It likes to chase the male lead on the set, and likes to peck at the male lead. The male lead hates it, and it hates the male lead.

9. Many scenes in the film were shot in a studio, because many houses in the real town are dilapidated.

10. The crew put a few pieces of meat next to the camera, and this is how the bird rushes towards the camera.

11. In some scenes of birds running behind people, the crew chose to tie the real birds behind the people and tie the beaks of the birds to prevent the actors from being injured.

12. At the beginning of the film, after the heroine crossed the road, someone whistled, the heroine fiddled with her posture and looked back and smiled. This is actually the action in the advertisement that the heroine shot before. Hitchcock chose to join this action. , It's a bad taste.

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Extended Reading
  • Claude 2021-10-26 03:30:56

    An impressive shot: With the centrifugal force of the car turning, the pet bird in the birdcage in the car will swing from side to side, and two at the same time!

  • Kirk 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    The sets for many shots are relatively fake (this is a 1963 film, so the technical requirements cannot be too high), the first half is too procrastinated, and the second half has a good atmosphere, but why is it suddenly gone? The ending sucks!

The Birds quotes

  • 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.

  • Mitch Brenner: I think I can handle Melanie Daniels by myself.

    Lydia Brenner: Well, as long as you know what you want Mitch.

    Mitch Brenner: I know exactly what I want.