【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 9

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German expressionism may have exerted a stylistic influence on Hitchcock, but the lessons of Soviet cinema went deeper. Soviet filmmakers showed Hitchcock that meaning in a film could be conveyed by the dynamic juxtaposition of images, a technique known as montage. In a montage sequence, acting becomes a matter of stylised gestures and expressions which become significant only when placed alongside other images. It was a principle that Hitchcock would apply throughout his career to the dismay of many of his actors.
The medium of pure cinema is what I believe in. The assembly of pieces of film to create fright is the central part of my job.
The Russians felt that, you know, cinema to them was propaganda, was education. They felt that they could make the audience think and feel in a certain way. They could manipulate the audience. And Hitchcock wanted this. He loved playing God. He loved this mass emotion. That could be created in terms of the juxtaposition of images - how you can bring them to a high, bring them to a low, how you can make them scream, how you can make them laugh. He loved this. He loved that.