【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 61

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Kaleidoscope-Frenzy was the last reflex of the director who for 40 years had delighted in keeping one step ahead of his audiences. Of the films that marked the end of his career, only Frenzy shot in Britain in 1972 showed any of the old magic.
Slowly, slowly, and slowly, lift her hands up, eyes begin to stare, then the eyes stare, open, open, open.
By now, both Hitchcock and Alma were in poor health. Alma had the first of two strokes during the making of Frenzy. Hitchcock himself had been fitted with a pace maker and was drinking heavily to deaden the pain of chronic arthritis.
His arthritis in his knees was enormously painful. I still have the vision of him in mind, of his walking on the hallway of the bungalow that he occupied, holding on to the wall to come down to the little office I had at the end there. But it was just an unstated agreement that we were just gonna keep Hitch going as long as he wanted to go.