【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 49

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Hitchcock used to complain that, you know, he was in competition with himself, and that, you know, people complained if it wasn't the kind of Hitchcock movie that they expected, and I think that had its drawbacks for him.
Hitch was their property. He belonged to them. He was supposed to do what they wanted. They let him in their house every Sunday night on television. And they wanted another Psycho.
But while fans wanted more of the same, critics seemed to want something different. The attacks of the so-called "Hitchnockians" had got under the director's skin. He wanted to show them that his brand of pure cinema could include characters of real psychological depth. Unfortunately, he didn't reveal these ambitions to his screenwriter Evan Hunter, who even then was working on what he thought was a screwball comedy with a macabre twist, called the Birds.