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May 4, 1980: “Hitchcock was an entertaining companion and a superlative raconteur with a gift of droll timing and a dry understatement. He lifted an eyebrow as eloquently as any actor. But beneath the assurance in public situations, like interviews and platform appearances, he was actually quite shy and, for perhaps the most flamboyant director of them all, guarded and private, with few close friends among either actors or fellow directors,” Charles Champlin says. |
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Something happened to Hitchcock’s work shortly after 1965. As he became older, he often directed from a sitting position, projecting a lowered energy level into his scenes. His films were less and less cinematic. By the Seventies, The Master’s works took on the same quality he was disparaging, that of photographing people talking to one another.
But Hitchcock in his prime was enthralling. That prime began in the early Thirties and peaked with ‘Psycho’ and ‘The Birds’ in the early Sixties.
Many have tried to emulate Hitchcock, but few have reached his heights. Brian DePalma came the closest. Alfred Hitchcock was an original. And the original is always the greatest in any art.
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