【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 20

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We always knew that it was a permanent move to come in all way, you know. It's no gamble at all because he had a seven-year contract with David Selznick, so we knew, you know, it was going to be at least seven years. And pretty much after that you would live there.
Hitchcock's first American film was to be Rebecca, based on the popular novel by Daphne du Maurier. It didn't take too long to discover what working for Selznick meant.
David O. Selznick was born in 1902, and he died in 1965, at the age of 63 - no wonder, for he was an obsessive, pill-popping workaholic.
He is a very dogmatic and imperious sort of man. He controlled his films. No one else made them. No one else condemned them. He was always the principal person. And with Hitchcock, this didn't go over so well. The two of them would fight about script mostly, because David Selznick had great respect for the original material that he used. He demanded that the dialogue be from the book, that the settings should match the descriptions in the book. David insisted on lifting the book right into the film, and Hitchcock wanted to make the film regardless of the book.