【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 8

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It was at the Islington Studios that Hitchcock would meet the most important person in his life - Alma Reville, a talented film editor in her own right and the future Mrs Hitchcock.
She was really smart, and extremely knowledgeable about film. And they were, they were so close. They were, it was, they were, you know they were a pair for all those years. And you know they read each other's minds.
In 1925 he received the education of a lifetime, when he was sent to work on an Anglo-German co-production at the UFA Studios in Berlin. UFA, the world's largest studio, was the home of German expressionist cinema. Watching the likes of Murnau and Lang at work, Hitchcock learned much about the power of the director. And there were other lessons, too.
He learned so much about the use of shadow, the use of camera angles that were unconventional, off-centre framing, shots from above, shots from below. Those kind of things were part and parcel of the style of German expressionism. And I think Hitchcock adapted those very neatly into his cinematic grammar.