【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 16

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Everything is decided on paper. I do not improvise while the picture is being made. A little bit is permissible. But if you don't make your picture on paper ahead of time with all the desired effects, if you cannot visualise or hear, then this will be like a musician composing with a full orchestra in front of him. So he's got his blank music and saying "Flute, give me a note, will you please?" and the flute gives him. "Thank you very much. " and he writes it down. There's the comparison. I think the film should be made on paper ahead of time.
Suspense was the key to the Hitchcock thriller. Working with screenwriter Charles Bennett and with Alma contributing to script treatments and continuity, Hitchcock turned suspense into an exact science.