【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 7

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In 1914, when Hitchcock was just 15, his father died. Forced to leave St. Ignatius, he found work in an engineering company, but Hitchcock was never the average nine-to-five office worker.
When he was a teenager, I think he was working in the city. He didn't, at lunch time, he didn't go to a pub and stand around with a glass of beer in his hand and sandwich. He went to a proper restaurant, dressed properly, went to a proper restaurant, ordered a proper lunch, had a cigar afterwards. You know that he knew the kind of human being and the kind of character he was going to be even then.
In 1920, Hitchcock's hobby took him to a former power station in Islington, North London. Alfred Hitchcock was about to enter the movies.
I heard that the American company was coming to London to open a studio, so I applied for the job of designing their titles, because those were silent days, and titles were an important part of a picture.