【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 33

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This is the apartment of a man named Jeffries, a news photographer whose beat used to be the world. Right now his world has shrunk down to the size of this window.
Hitchcock's sense of security at Paramount is apparent in the choice of his first film, Rear Window. Told almost entirely from the point of view of a wheel-chair-bound Jimmy Stewart and shot on an elaborate set, Rear Window managed to be both experimental and crowd-pleasing.
This is the travelling salesman and his invalid wife. Out of their arguments and nagging comes a weird kind of love. Miss Torso, the body beautiful. That is, viewed from a safe distance.
It was a very quiet set, very well-organised set, and I remember lots of people visiting the set. Sometimes Mr Hitchcock would close it, but he was very proud of it, that, imagine my little apartment had everything but running water and ice cubes. I had my bed, and I mean, I had food there and I... It was complete. This whole little village, if you will, sort of like Mr Hitchcock's doll house, playing with his little dolls and placing them where he wanted them.