【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 3

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Oh, there were a lot of Hitchcocks involved with Mr Hitchcock. He used to think of himself as being a very simple man. He was extremely complicated, extremely complicated.
That's a great question. Is this man a technician, or is he a genius with soul and spirit, and is he maybe the greatest filmmaker of all time?
This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking. In the past, I have introduced you to many kinds of people, murderers, thieves, swindlers, many of them geniuses of the business of crime.
Cruelty, fear, loneliness, paranoia, dark feelings.
Big stars, outstanding supporting cast, brilliant colour, imaginative settings, great locations.
Murder, mayhem, violence, sex, beautifully, pictorially expressed, lovely costumes, perfect cutting, and a joke or two.
Hitchcock's 1936 thriller Sabotage is set in a world of street markets, shopkeepers and bobbies on the beat.
Don't you know that it's very dangerous?
What?
Leaving stuff like that lying about. Suppose you or me would break our leg on that. You'd be very pleased with this, I suppose?
It would depend whether it was your leg or mine. Come and enjoy, I suppose? Oranges, very nice today, good for the feet.
It was a world that Hitchcock knew well. It was the world in which he'd grown up.