Saturday, July 07, 2007

Hitchcock's Filmmaking Notes


I ran across this site on Kottke.org that discusses Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking techniques. This is a very interesting read.

Hitchcock was an innovator, but he was also a storytelling purist. He was careful not to abandon the cornerstones of good storytelling in order to show us a new camera trick, etc. His motto: keep the story simple.

3 comments:

Adam Palmer said...

Interesting.

Say, what do Eminem, Geena Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Isaac Hayes have in common?

Each of them has more Oscars than Hitch. And I didn't even bring up Three-6 Mafia. Sigh...

happy idiot said...

Suddenly I'm in the mood for a Hitchcock marathon.

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