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Even though there is no music in the film Bernard Herrman is listed as sound consultant for the electronic and bird sounds used throughout. This is one of Hitcock's scariest films, with one nerve wracking scene after another. Newspaper tycoon's daughter Tippy Hedren travels from San Francisco to Bodega Bay to play a practical joke on attorney Rod Taylor. Almost as oon as she arribes ahe and others are subject to random and increasingly fatal attacks by birds.
Jessica Tandy plays Taylor's mother and child star Veronica Cartwright his young sister. Suzanne Pleshett plays a school teacher who rents a room to Hedren. The film contains by far the most special effects used in a Hitchcock movie. Hedren was injured in one of the bird attacks.
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Fascinating interpretation of the movie published by the British Film Institute. Just 120+ pages long, but engrossing if you like Paglia's archeo-psycho-historico-sexual approach to things.
The Birds is a just a great picture. Stunning in so many ways.
Most obviouse of course are the visuals. The production design, the cinematography. the sound design, the editing....And in my opinion the effects are audacious and spectacularly conceived and executed. Not only in themselves, but in the way they mesh with the overall design of the film. Is the procsess work terribly inferior by today's standards? Of course. By the standards of twenty odd years ago at the culmination of the age of the photochemical special effect? Also, yes.
So?
And that's just the craft and technique of the film. Story, direction- the film as an oganic whole? Fucking awsome.
Try to imagine something like this coming from mainstream big budget Hollywood today.
Try 43 years ago.
"By the standards of twenty odd years ago at the culmination of the age of the photochemical special effect? Also, yes."
You should have add the excellent psychological story line!
The triangle, mother, son and mistress.
The rather dodgy effects sort of ruin the movie for me. They could have done a much better job using lower-tech effects and models, instead of trying to do before-it's-time compositing.The color process was also wacky, even for early color. Every time I watch the movie I can't stop looking at Tippi's hair, which seems to change from silvery-green to silvery-blue to silvery-orange, depending on what daylight filter they were using that day. I mean The Quiet Man had a more stable color pallet.
Still, masterfully directed by Hitch, I just wish they'd do a release with the effects cleaned up a bit. Not a Star Wars mutilation, just, well, at least have the birds-eye shots scaled properly so it doesn't look like stock footage from wild kingdom superimposed over an aerial photo.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
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Did you see Tippi in The 4400? She played the "older" Lilly. Good to see she's still around.
I missed that ne but do rmemeber her in Hitch's "Marnie".
I just did a look up and had no idea she did so much. She's been working almost continously for nearly 50 years!
She' also melanie Griffiths' mother.
I know. What's interesting is that the last time I saw Melanie with her plastic surgery disaster of a face, Tippi actually looked better!At one time, Melanie was a very good looking gal!
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