Hitchcock discusses Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock discusses film technique & Psycho in a 1965 interview.

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• Alfred
• Hitchcock
• Psycho
• Interview
• Film
• Editing
• Music
• Score
• Bernard
• Herrmann

[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.

[Fatmanrolling38]

@TimHallSucksCock

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

[jodanlovesyou]

@flaminia5 hmm then i dont know....

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

[flaminia5]

but who was actually the psycho?

[WaldronicTomotron]

@slowmonkey156 That is what he meant.

[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"

[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]

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!

[RevanGabriel]

I didn't know Hitch could speak french.

[brassmonkeyjew]

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