Wednesday, 19 December 2012
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wine, whimsicality, wit and romance
such as a big "emotional" arc
We might also see more of Wade, Laurie's Internet boyfriend
As work on the film proceeded, however, she discovered a different kind of horror movie playing out off camera as her powerful director became sexually obsessed with her and began making wildly inappropriate demands
did everything she could think of to cope with Hitchcock's erratic behavior, often in full view of the director's wife Alma
"It started very slowly, by staring, On the set, I'd be talking to people, and I'd look over, and he might have a bunch of people he was talking to as well, but he'd be staring at me."
Among the most harrowing ordeals Hedren was forced to endure on "The Birds" was a five-day shoot filming an attic scene in which her character, Melanie Daniels, is savagely attacked by large, angry birds. The actress had been told that mechanical birds would be used for this scene, but when she reported for work, she found herself trapped in a closed-off space with live birds. In one of the most unsettling scenes in "The Girl," Hedren is put through take after grueling take, the crew watching with mounting concern for her safety as the birds attack her over and over. Hitchcock, however, looks on impassively, his face chillingly inscrutable. Was the director punishing his leading lady for not being more personally accommodating?
"Honestly, we are dealing with such a devious mind here, with Alfred Hitchcock, that there is no way I can answer that question realistically,"
"There's lots of things going on [in that scene], but in my opinion, it's mainly fascination with Tippi's resilience and wondering what the source of that resilience is and how far it will sustain her, and there's also guilt about that fascination," the actor says. "That's also the drama of the character, but Hitchcock is gripped also by whether the actress is going to be broken.
Alma just glazed over and walked away ...
Hitchcock made good on his threat to destroy her career
Hitchcock made good on his threat to destroy her career
19.12.12. 21.43,
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