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Post by Sirenna on Jan 1, 2007 23:55:20 GMT -5
Out of all the influences that might possibly have given birth to LO:ci I think Hitchcock is the closest. Closer even than Sherlock. I was watching Witness to a murder with Barbara Stanwick earlier tonight and it's amazing to me how scary the movie is because it uses psychiatrists and medication to convince an otherwise sane witness to a murder that she really is paranoid. (I mean if people weren't really following her there'd be no need to drug Barbara, jeesh! ) Ahead of his time was Hitchcock.
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Post by Techguy on Jan 2, 2007 2:04:55 GMT -5
Hitchcock once said it's infinitely more interesting to see the ticking time bomb under the table than see it explode. For the first 5 CI seasons we got to see the ticking time bomb; I fear Warren Leight is determined in Season 6 to have us see the explosion.
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Post by Sirenna on Jan 2, 2007 18:55:15 GMT -5
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Post by NikkiGreen on Jan 2, 2007 19:05:11 GMT -5
No, but, it came out the same year as Hitchcock's Rear Window. That might have caused the confusion.
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Post by Sirenna on Jan 2, 2007 19:15:39 GMT -5
Yes. Perhaps that's it.
It reminded me of his from a stylistic point of view with the looming camera angles and the shadowy effects and lone figures fleeing the established order. Maybe I'm thinking of Gaslight and there was a whole bunch of black and white suspense films at the time that were really good too.
I got a Hitchcock DVD this Christmas which I haven't seen yet of his very early stuff, like the 39 Steps. Although come to think of it, most of Hitchcock's films had a pervading sense of self-deprecating humour that was missing from WtoM which was downright scary (in a totally fun sort of way.)
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Post by doctorj on Jan 4, 2007 9:34:04 GMT -5
it's funny you mention this... i love hitchcock. i just got done watching the 39 steps. and about a dozen other hitchock movies, all in a row. you know what i noticed? silence. hitchcock is at his best in his moments of silence. it's terrifying! and it made me realize that most modern movies and tv shows fill that space with melodramatic music that actually distracts from the ticking bomb, IMO.
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Post by Sirenna on Jan 4, 2007 12:45:19 GMT -5
Yes, silence in Hitchcock was a great scary effect. We are like the characters, listening for sounds that we hope are not there. It's something goren used to use a lot in interviews in earlier episodes of the show to prod the interviewee into filling it. He was good at making them uncomfortable without saying a word. I have a theory about people who cough in theatres at that crucial point in the story when the tension binds the audience to actors. It's just too uncomfortable for them to allow the moment to run its course. They need to interrupt it (cough) to release themselves from its spell.
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Post by doctorj on Jan 4, 2007 12:52:44 GMT -5
yeah, i agree. though i'd rather hear people cough than hear some composer fill in the appropriate emotional blank with music!
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Post by rue721 on Jan 5, 2007 1:55:57 GMT -5
My personal fav. is Psycho.
I love that movie so much that when I was a kid, I LISTENED to the entire thing when it was on a cable network we didn't get the picture for.
I love how things just seem to loom- the house on the hill, the creepy stuffed birds behind Norman Bates...
But I have to confess- I'm a cougher! I even have to change the channel during that one inevitable moment in any sitcom, right before the "big reveal."
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Post by Sirenna on Jan 7, 2007 19:33:07 GMT -5
So far this weekend I've watched 39 Steps (GREAT!!!) and The Rich and the Strange (Very GOOD!) and a bit of the first make of The Man Who Knew Too Much (not the same one as with Doris Day)
One thing I've noticed is camera angles of the feet. Love that. So suspensful to see feet walking to and fro.
genius to know that it would be.
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Post by doctorj on Jan 7, 2007 19:57:39 GMT -5
ooh! i just re-watched "the birds." i'd forgotten how funny hitchcock can be. (the part where the gas is trickling down to the man who is lighting a cigar... and everyone's leaning out the windown screaming at him to be careful... priceless!)
have you seen "shadow of a doubt," sirenna?
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Post by Sirenna on Jan 7, 2007 20:42:20 GMT -5
I think he had eva mend her own brow in that really awkward way with her had up and around her brow when the bird pecked her because of shots like in Rich and Strange where the character blocked their own face when they did repairs to makeup or wounds.
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