0_Wizard
Do you watch Hitchcock? His first film was in 1929 and called Blackmail. I personally have seen Birds and Rear Window and think they're both amazing.
His first successful film, "" (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film, "Blackmail", was the first British "".
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He directed 53 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well-known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955–1965). Born on the outskirts of London, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company.
Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films
Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director. This article lists some of the themes and plot devices that occur repeatedly in his films. There are images of birds in nearly all of Hitchcock's films. Some of the most prominent are listed below. Black people appear mostly as background characters in many of his films, except Philippe Dubois who is both intelligent and clever,  London has been the main setting of many of his films which are,  Hitchcock preferred the use of suspense over the use of surprise in his films.
Psycho (franchise)
Psycho is an American horror franchise consisting of six films loosely based on the "Psycho" novels by Robert Bloch, namely "Psycho", "Psycho II", "Psycho III", "Bates Motel", "", the 1998 remake of the original film, and additional merchandise spanning various media. The first film, "Psycho", was directed by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Subsequently, another film related to the series was made: an Alfred Hitchcock biopic. Also, an independent documentary called "The Psycho Legacy" was released on October 19, 2010. It mostly focused on "Psycho II", "Psycho III" and "", but did cover the impact and legacy of the original film.
Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and number 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition.
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its aftermath. "Psycho" was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film "North by Northwest", having been filmed on a low budget, with a television crew and in black and white.
Tippi Hedren
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress, animal rights activist and former fashion model. A successful fashion model from her twenties, appearing on the front covers of "Life" and "Glamour" magazines among others, Hedren became an actress after she was discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. She received world recognition for her work in two of his films, the suspense-thriller "The Birds" in 1963, for which she won a Golden Globe, and the psychological drama "Marnie" in 1964. Hedren has appeared in over eighty films and TV shows including Charlie Chaplin's final film, "A Countess from Hong Kong" (1967), the Alexander Payne political satire "Citizen Ruth" (1996), and the David O. Russell existential comedy "I Heart Huckabees" (2004), and her contributions to world cinema have been honored with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame among others.
James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis. Many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics. Stewart was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition for "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), and received an Academy Lifetime Achievement award in 1985. In 1999, Stewart was named the third-greatest male screen legend of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute, behind Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant.
1_Apprentice
I have obviously heard of him, but I really haven't seen much if any of his films. What made him so popular anyway?
0_Wizard
He uses an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices through his life as a diretor.
Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director.
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Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films
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Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films
Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director. This article lists some of the themes and plot devices that occur repeatedly in his films. There are images of birds in nearly all of Hitchcock's films. Some of the most prominent are listed below. Black people appear mostly as background characters in many of his films, except Philippe Dubois who is both intelligent and clever,  London has been the main setting of many of his films which are,  Hitchcock preferred the use of suspense over the use of surprise in his films.
Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro
The Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) (Rio de Janeiro Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology), also known as the late Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Química de Nilópolis, is an institution that offers high and professional educations by having a pluricurricular form. It is a multicampi institution, specialising with professional and technological education in different areas of knowledge (biologics/human sciences/exact sciences). The Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) (Rio de Janeiro Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology) is a federal institution, public, directly vinculated to the Ministry of Education of Brazil.
Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman who is romantically or sexually attracted to other women. The term "lesbian" is also used to express sexual identity or sexual behavior regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction. The concept of "lesbian", to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation, is a 20th-century construct. Throughout history, women have not had the same freedom or independence to pursue homosexual relationships as men, but neither have they met the same harsh punishment as homosexual men in some societies.
Anarky
Anarky is a fictional character, appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Co-created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, he first appeared in "Detective Comics" No. 608 (November 1989), as an adversary of Batman. Introduced as Lonnie Machin, a child prodigy with knowledge of radical philosophy and driven to overthrow governments to improve social conditions, stories revolving around Anarky often focus on political and philosophical themes. The character, who is named after the philosophy of anarchism, primarily espouses anti-statism; however, multiple social issues have been addressed through the character, including environmentalism, antimilitarism, economic inequality, and political corruption.
Late Spring
"Late Spring" belongs to the type of Japanese film known as "shomingeki", a genre that deals with the ordinary daily lives of working class and middle class people of modern times. The film is frequently regarded as the first in the director’s final creative period, "the major prototype of the [director's] 1950s and 1960s work." These films are characterized by, among other traits, an exclusive focus on stories about families during Japan's immediate postwar era, a tendency towards very simple plots and the use of a generally static camera. "Late Spring" was released in September 1949 to critical acclaim in the Japanese press.
Music of Star Wars
The music of the "Star Wars" franchise is composed and produced in conjunction with the development of the feature films, television series, and other merchandise within the epic space opera franchise created by George Lucas. The music for the primary feature films (which serves as the basis for the rest of the related media) was written by John Williams. Williams' scores for the eight saga films count among the most widely known and popular contributions to modern film music, and utilize a symphony orchestra and features an assortment of fifty recurring musical themes to represent characters and other plot elements: one of the largest caches of themes in the history of film music.
Ancient Greek temple
Greek temples (Ancient Greek: , ' "dwelling", semantically distinct from Latin ' ("temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion. The temple interiors did not serve as meeting places, since the sacrifices and rituals dedicated to the respective deity took place outside them. Temples were frequently used to store votive offerings. They are the most important and most widespread building type in Greek architecture. In the Hellenistic kingdoms of Southwest Asia and of North Africa, buildings erected to fulfill the functions of a temple often continued to follow the local traditions.
1_Apprentice
Oh okay, so he almost stuck to what he knew and made himself known for it? What was his most successful film, if you know?