Are you a fan of Alfred Hitchcock films? It's kind of crazy when you think how prolific he was -- and the impact he still has.
not really but I would be delighted to know more about him from you
Well, his work earned him a "Sir" title for one thing! But yes, he directed 53 feature films over six decades -- and started the precedent of the director who always made cameos in his films.
Wow thats's really something. But I think the reason I don't know him is because he directs and don't act
11 Oscars and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His 53 films have grossed over US $223.3 million worldwide and garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
The "Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear. The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film "is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is
you want to do another one, the easy thing to do is to take it. When I started out, I sort of thought of myself as an enormously sensitive young writer who wanted to do these deeply personal films. I don't know how many years ago that was. But I still intend to be."
Mankiewicz admitted he had not fulfilled his potential. "It's been my fault, really. Perhaps in the beginning, I was intimidated by my family and its reputation... I think I've