【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 10

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He took me to dinner one night, and he said Ernie, what we're doing is we're playing. We're sitting at an organ, and we're pressing this chord which makes an audience go woo, and then we press this chord which makes them laugh, and we're just playing on them. And he said some day we wouldn't need the movies.
Hitchcock created his first effects early in 1927 with the release of his debut films, the Pleasure Garden, the Mountain Eagle and the Lodger.
The Pleasure Garden performed respectably, the Mountain Eagle less well, but the Lodger was a sensation. For once, British critics had a homegrown product to rave about, and for the public, it was a sensational storyline coupled with the charms of matinee idol, Ivor Novello. But for Hitchcock, it had been a tough initiation. All three films had been shelved for months, condemned by the distributor as unshowable. The Lodger in particular was suspected of being arty, a kiss of death in the British film industry at that time.