Alfred Hitchcock's films make the viewer shake with horror. The maestro found a way to the human subconscious, skillfully manipulating emotions with the help of color, music, space.
Alfred Hitchcock is known throughout the world as the master of the horror genre. Some consider him the most brilliant director of his genre. Until now, his films frighten even a sophisticated viewer, forcing the blood to freeze in their veins.
Hitchcock is a virtuoso of suspense. He was great at making enemies in the face of his parents, whose children were afraid of birds, maniacs and policemen. He found a thread leading to the subconscious of a person. Thanks to this, brilliant films were born.
Some believe that Hitchcock filmed based on his own fears. He himself was very afraid of his characters, because, as a child, many fears and complexes were laid in him, which were expressed in the films.
Fear of the guards
Father Alfred can be considered a co-author, since it was he who put a bunch of phobias and complexes into the boy. Hitchcock Sr. adhered to a Catholic upbringing and was very strict with his son. Once he even punished the boy for a minor offense, asking the police to lock him in solitary confinement for several hours. Hence the fear of law enforcement officers.
The fear of the police was so strong that Alfred refused to drive. But this resulted in an interesting directorial move - he began to use a person's subconscious fear of an accusation put forward unfairly.
Loneliness in childhood
The success of Hitchcock's films is also attributed to his autism. He had no friends since childhood, as he was brought up by Jesuit monks in college. Having an unremarkable appearance, he was afraid of ridicule from peers. Gradually, a whole wall formed between him and the other world.
Few believed that behind the cold appearance of an excellent, know-it-all, there was a lonely soul who was afraid of the police and ridicule from the outside. Alfred did not like to play outdoor games, it was easier for him to plunge into thoughts, being alone.
Probably, already in his youth, he came up with the plots of his future paintings.
Chocolate syrup and violin
Housewives and children, after watching Hitchcock's films, are afraid to go outside, walk next to the birds. This is due not only to a good plot and acting. Alfred Hitchcock has always been experimenting with music, space, color, retrospective storytelling. The experiments were almost always successful. He clearly caught the pauses when you can do without music at all by turning on the usual background.
In the films of the maestro, the music often starts to play unexpectedly, which makes you shudder. Monotonous melodies made by a violin or piano could lead anyone into a trance. The person relaxed, and at the most inopportune moment a maniac appeared to make the viewer shudder and shake with fear.
Interesting fact. Filmed in 1963, Birds is filled with natural sounds and electronic noises. Sophisticated combination shots, which produced amazing footage combined with superimposed sounds, left no one indifferent.
Alfred Hitchcock's most famous film is Psycho, which won an Oscar. To add more mystery, the director chose a black and white film for filming. As it turned out, it was a brilliant idea.
Any film broadcast in the cinema made the viewer tremble with horror. Some of them had nervous attacks. Angry parents complained to the director that the children were afraid to go into the bathroom or a dark room.
When the maestro was asked why his films affect the viewer so strongly, he replied that the film should begin with an earthquake, and then the tension should gradually build up. Indeed, in each of his paintings, the tension constantly increases until it reaches its climax at the very end. This makes the viewer forget about where he is for an hour and a half and relive the life of the main characters.
Surprising but true
Recent studies by American neurophysiologists have led to the conclusion that Hitchcock's movies affect consciousness, they take control of it, forcing it to follow the events that unfold on the screen. Alfred Hitchcock found a way to the human brain, his consciousness, forcing at the right moment to react in a certain way to a particular event in the film.
