【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 22

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Selznick gave Hitchcock opportunities. I mean, it was like, if you take the train set analogy that Orson Welles used, this is "the best train set a boy ever had". Selznick gave Hitchcock an electric train set, compared with a clockwork train set. It was more sophisticated. It worked better. It did more tricks. I think, in hindsight, you'd have to say that the antagonism was very fruitful. I mean it was a pretty good partnership.
Rebecca is one of Hitchcock's most popular pictures, but he felt it was always more Selznick's than his, a feeling confirmed when the film won the 1940 Oscar for Best Picture, an award that went to the producer, not the director. It was to be the first of several near misses for Hitchcock, and he would end his career without a single Oscar to his name. Of the ten films Hitchcock made while under contract, only three were for Selznick. But the loan-out films include some of his most powerful work, with memorable performances from the stars with whom he would be most closely associate.