The paradox of Alfred Hitchcock is that his works are clearly ostracized and condescended by critics in England, his country of birth, while they have been ridiculed in the United States;

It is the country that obtained his citizenship, until the French director and film pioneer, "François Truffaut" came to remove the misunderstanding that deprived Hitchcock of appreciation for many years, and the works of the man - who died in 1980 - remained present, which the audience sided with from the first moments, and his films became inspirational. For generations of directors after him.

The content of the permanent paradox was that previous technique through which Hitchcock created and used it in telling his stories, and that content that critics saw as not carrying a missionary dimension, as they are just horror, suspense and excitement films without a message that goes beyond the content of the work itself.

The director, who was born in London on August 13, 1899, was distinguished by simplicity, especially with regard to the content of his works, which amounted to about 53 films that he presented over 60 years in his career that ended with his departure in April 1980. Hitchcock was able to turn the film into an independent message in itself and that He transforms the suspense, excitement and horror in his works into safe spaces of fear that his viewers can then endure any horror that comes from real life.

Hitchcock was not inclined to those historical and show films or that include special costumes for specific times. He even stated in a television interview when the announcer asked him about cowboy or "cowboy" films, saying, "I see them as just fashion shows... I don't like this kind of movies." .

Hitchcock, who deserved to be described as "The Lord of Shadows", presented his greatest, most suspenseful and terrifying scenes in an atmosphere of doubt, dim lighting and darkness, where crimes are committed or the hero experiences moments of doubt and uncertainty, and this was evident in the movie "Psycho", where the hotel is far from the city and the house next door or The place where the crime was committed is not clearly illuminated except with the disclosure of facts about the hero and his crimes at the end of the work.

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Hitchcock's name has become the greatest common denominator among the answers of most filmmakers of the following generations to the question of who is the director you learn from?

That is because Hitchcock, in his 60 years in the cinema, made a school in technology related to stories and suspense, and the man in his films continued to play with the idea of ​​doubt and rarely provided a satisfactory answer at the end of his film about that doubt, and he also continued to play - through montage - in the form of hiding part of the information about the event or the hero Then he shows it in a dramatic moment, and screams and shouts of admiration erupt in the galleries.

His most influential genius was the astonishing ability he imparted in his motion pictures to tell the story without the need for dialogue, which became largely secondary;

He embodies the eloquence of the image and its ability to tell stories.

Perhaps films such as "Siko", "Vertigo" and "The Man Who Knows Too Much" have achieved more fame than did Alfred Hitchcock himself, and in some of them he received a number of scenes that exceeded the fame of the movie, especially the well-known murder scene in the movie "Siko". During which the knife did not touch the victim's body, nor was a drop of blood seen, but the expression was only on the face.

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High achievers tend to highlight a theme such as horror, anger or love in their films;

The adhesion of that meaning to their minds and feelings as a result of life events they lived, but Hitchcock lived a quiet life in his childhood, as he was born to a stable family in London and settled in a job before he was 20 years old, and launched attempts to make films at the age of 22.

The audience preceded film critics in interacting with Hitchcock's films for objective reasons, as he used the camera as the viewer's eye, and depicted the viewer's movement and visual movements to know and monitor the event, and then made the viewer "snoop" on the characters and events within the film, which made that viewer part of the cinema Hitchcock, but the skilled director was also able to hide what he wanted to have the effect he wanted on the audience.

In a television interview, Hitchcock explains the difference between shock and suspense, saying that the shock is for the audience to be surprised by the explosion of a bomb while the hero meets his colleagues at work, for example, but the thrill is for the audience to know that the bomb is about to explode, in this case everyone in the audience wants to warn his hero of the bomb.

Hitchcock and Truffaut

The English director emigrated to Hollywood in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1955, but he was not highly regarded in England, and found nothing but ridicule and ridicule from critics in his new homeland.

However, the French director, writer and critic François Truffaut conducted an interview with Hitchcock for a whole week, containing 500 questions, and worked on the material for a full 4 years, then issued a book containing the dialogue under the name "Hitchcock-Truffaut". The book contained a comprehensive treatment of all Hitchcock's films, in addition to A full explanation by Hitchcock of his understanding of the crime and of the film as well, the book itself has been turned into a documentary.

The book had magic;

It was the main station for disengaging the critics and Hitchcock's films, and new attempts began to re-watch them, according to what Truffaut referred to as the incomparable genius in technique and style of cinematic narration, a path that eventually led to Hitchcock receiving an honorary Academy Award in 1968 for his entire work, but He did not win a real Oscar despite being nominated 5 times.

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Hitchcock made a number of films at the beginning of his work, including "The Pleasure Gardens" (1925), and it was the first film that drew attention to him as a director.

Copies of the film were lost and he was asked about it in one of his television interviews, and he replied, "I'm glad it was bad."

In his movie Suspicion 1941;

He begins a new phase of condensation and closeness to the usual police models in the detective literature that was widespread in Europe and America in the first half of the 20th century. Attempting to travel with a first-class car and a third-class ticket.

He weaves his threads around the girl, and soon they get married.

It wasn't until after the honeymoon that she found out his true identity and began to doubt when Johnny's friend and business partner, Becky, was murdered in mysterious circumstances.

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The movie "Psycho" in 1960 remains;

He is the most prominent in the career of the master of suspense in cinema, as he was a restoration of the viewer in front of the television screen after he had begun to prefer the small screen that began to attract the audience.

Alfred Hitchcock was aware of the matter, and he accepted the challenge, especially as he witnessed the closure of more than one film production company, so he decided to use the minimum available budget for work, and as soon as the film was shown, the audience again accepted the theaters.

The movie "Psycho" revolves around Marion Crane, who is tired of working as an office worker and of not being able to consummate her marriage to her fiancé;

She steals $40,000 from an office client.

Marion leaves town and heads toward a distant town and decides to take a rest in a modest hotel down the road, run by a quiet young man named Norman who appears to be dominated by his mother.

Alfred Hitchcock was able to dazzle the audience and filmmakers as well with the movie "Birds" 1963, in which he outdid himself, as he presented the horror very calmly and brought the viewer to the height of tension while the scene revolves in complete calm.

The Birds is about a wealthy San Francisco man who follows a friend to a small town in Northern California, but events slowly take a turn toward a catastrophe of a special kind when birds of all kinds suddenly start attacking people.