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There is a moment in chcock's "The Birds" where Rod Taylor moves a dead body indoors at the behest of Tippi Hedran. We don't see him do, we HEAR him do it. This got me thinking of how important the use of sound is in a Hitchcock film, an interesting evolution for a man who started in the silent era. I have maintained for a long time that one of the best things about "Rear Window" is its sound track, where you can JUST hear the neighbors but can'e quite make out exactly what they are saying. Other examle of creative sound use abound in this and other Hitch films"The Birds", BTW, is one of Hitchsock's scariest and I still shudder whenever I see the gas station scene or watch them leaving at the very end. It is aloso interesting to see Veronica Cartwright when she was young.
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The movie has the "Jazz Heaven" happy ending tacked on, to give you that "Rocky" feeling. Read the book, you are not treated so gingerly.
Hitch always did play with sound...Remember in one of his first talking picture: Knive...knife...knife....?
The Birds is actually a fine work on relation between a mother and an adult son.
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