The Birds hitchcock folder icon shadow of a doubt 1943

Every night, he had an evening confession. He tried to ride every bus line in the city at least once, and he often watched trials at the local courthouse. He was shy, quiet, and he spent a lot of his childhood alone, making up games. Today is Alfred’s birthday, so today’s edition of The Writer’s Almanac has some info about him. I’ve not read much about Hitchcock as a person. Is Joseph Cotten giving direct voice to Hitchcock here? The screen shot of Joseph Cotten comes at the conclusion of his little speech about the “horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.” As he’s making this speech the camera slowly closes in on his face in profile when he finishes he turns and looks directly into the camera. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses, you’d find swine? The world’s a hell. Or did l? Or was it a silly, inexpert, little lie? You live in a dream. At night, you sleep your ordinary sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams. You wake up every day and know there’s nothing in the world to trouble you.

What do you know, really? You’re just an ordinary little girl living in an ordinary little town. You think you know something, don’t you? You think you’re the clever little girl who knows something. (Charlie) But they’re alive! They’re human beings.Īre they? Are they, Charlie? Are they human, or are they fat, wheezing animals? Hm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?

Proud of their jewellery, but of nothing else. And what do the wives do,these useless women? You see them in the best hotels every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money. Middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who’ve spent their lives making fortunes, working and working, and then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives.

The Birds hitchcock folder icon shadow of a doubt 1943