Hitchcock discusses Psycho

[flaminia5]

but who was actually the psycho?

[jodanlovesyou]

@flaminia5 what do you mean? the actor who played bates or who was the crazy person in this film?

[flaminia5]

@jodanlovesyou i am not sure, but there are some indications that Hitchcock pictured sometimes real persons in his movies, like "Lady vanishes" hints to Agatha Christie etc

[jodanlovesyou]

@flaminia5 hmm then i dont know....

[Kubrick101Fan]

I agree that Hitchcock is a great director, I love how he explains styles about films.

But he uses back projections a little too much, and I was really disapointed when I heard him say that he "doesn't give damn about content".

A movie without content is like a day without sunshine!

[slowmonkey156]

@Kubrick101Fan To me at least, when he says "doesn't give a damn about content", I thought what he meant by that was that he's not so much interested in the "plot" (i.e., what "happens" in the movie) but rather he cares more about exploring a theme and getting emotional responses from an audience. If that's what he meant, I admire that greatly. I see too many movies that are all about a "plot", or "stuff happening", but they aren't ABOUT anything. They don't really explore ideas/themes.

[Kubrick101Fan]

@slowmonkey156 I don't think that's what he meant! His movies seem to have interesting plots and there's always something happening

I think by 'content' he meant implied meanings and hidden, well, content that is not comprehended right away by the visuals. He said he only cares 'how an apple looks like in a painting,not how it tastes'

Yes I agree that the emotional response from the audience is really important, but you can also have hidden meanings, like in "The Shinning" and "Erasorhead"

[WaldronicTomotron]

@slowmonkey156 That is what he meant.

[RevanGabriel]

I didn't know Hitch could speak french.

[brassmonkeyjew]

Was he speaking in tongues at he end? oh Alfred you so crazy!

[LordMoku]

Its a shame that such an influential man should be subject to such terrible camera control during this interview...

Nothing can top the stabbing music from this film for pure seat-wetting terror.

[AnimeFanatic5602]

Troll alert!

[vonbiron]

annoying music in the background is just out of place....

[dan2009]

The Shakespeare of cinema

[universallogin1290]

@dan2009 Ever heard of a little unknown independent ilm director named Orson Welles.

[darkprose]

Also, this was a beautiful interview -- thank you for sharing it with us. Can't get enough Hitch, I think.

[darkprose]

I think the French loved Hitchcock more than we (Americans and British) did -- The Simpsons even made a nice joke of it: "He's going to be all over you like Truffaut on Hitchcock!"

His cinematic genius and general character is simply irreplaceable.

[ItsumoYume]

o-o hitchcock speaking french...how interesting...

[Fatmanrolling38]

@TimHallSucksCock

that my friend is one of the most influential directors known to man.

[ImRunningazoo]

@TimHallSucksCock I BEG YOUR PARDON ! ( THIS MAN IS A LEGEND ) DO US ALL A FAVOR GO BACK TO BETTING YOUR COCK, NOT THIS COCK BUT YOUR OWN !!!

[TimHallSucksCock]

@ImRunningazoo you ugly bald fatass FUCK

[kermiskermis8]

View my channel for videos of a haunted house based on Hitchcock's movie: Psycho.

[TheDumbSongChannel]

Lord, that bell at the beginning scared the mess outta' me!!!

[OldFartsChannel]

See Hitchcock behind the scenes on the set of Psycho on oldfartschannel. It's good fun.

[lyriz465]

Wow!

The U.S. version shows mother stabbing Arbogast once and the scene fades on his scream.

But here, we see 3 stabbing motions before we fade. Amazing that European TV can be more explicit than American film!

[Gencturk92]

@lyriz465 i actually thought american version is always better, especially on dvd.

[ghayooragain]

rare!

[shilloshillos]

Nice analogy, but in Herrmann's score there weren't anything but Strings...so...

[VintageEuroTV]

True, but as you remarked, Hitch uses music here as an analogy for film making, he is not discussing Herrmann's score per se.