【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 38

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When he was dealing with critics, he was dealing with the enemy because they were analysing what he was doing. They weren't surrendering to it. And consequently, in these interviews he kept on giving you what you expected. He wasn't going to allow anyone to slip under his guard. His interviews are like the trailers that he made for the films, where they are to conceal things rather than to expose things. An interview for Hitchcock was like the living autopsy. There he was spread out, still alive when you were cutting him open.
But even as Vertigo received a mauling of the pens of the American and British critics, elsewhere a powerful counter-movement was underway. The master of suspense was about to become the master auteur.