Alfred Hitchcock....Some Short Interview Excerpts

great. thanks for uploading.

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bit up himself wasnt he?

how so?

I had to look back to what I had written -- how so about his films being comedies or the clear horizon thing?

does he mean just black comedy?

Yes, I think so. He once said that he found Psycho very amusing -- I definitely think he meant it in a very dry kind of way. Murder and mayhem was often the subject of his jokes. It could be read another way, which is that the subject of his films were never terribly serious -- it was the medium, film itself, which is of absolute importance. Narrative, for him, was a necessary evil, but almost incidental. Like most things, it's an ambiguous claim of Hitch's.

for your first reading i do understand the concept of black comedy, but to outright say that murder is comedic is just stupid whoever says it. i like the idea of your second point.