Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was pretty unique when he started making his own films. His use of montage with sound to tell a story was very original back in his time. He also had his typical story lines full of suspense rather than surprise, this included the wrongly accused man or knowing a man has committed murder but just following him to see get caught. His fear of police and obsession with blonde women was pretty clear in many of his films. He always had the police ending up seen as weak and useless, and having a blonde woman as one of the main characters. Out of the three films that we had watched in class, I liked Vertigo. I liked the twists and turns throughout the movie, and when we were actually told the truth about everything was pretty satisfying. Then allowing the movie to progress after the point of us knowing the truth allowed us not to be left asking as many questions as we would have if it had just ended with us finding out what happened. There was still the last scene with the main character just standing there after the woman had fallen off the tower and fell to her death, we never found out what happened to him.

Overall I did not find myself to like Hitchcock as much as I thought I would. I think it is mostly because his style of film making has been copied over and over throughout the years by other directors. It just seems like I have seen his techniques used too many times already. At first I liked his background stories that were full of suspense, but those too had been copied and used countless time by other people. Even though they were original at the time, it just seemed a bit boring to me. The endings were typically predictable, with the exception of Vertigo in my opinion, which was why I liked it the most out of the three we watched in class.