Caligari, and the creation of the treacherous robot in Metropolis. After all, Hitchcock is a product of the silent era, influenced by both Eisenstein and the German Expressionists, where one routinely finds that type of virtuoso caprice – the awakening lion, the Odessa steps sequence, just about every scene in The Cabinet of Dr. We think of Hitchcock primarily as a visual director because of all those wonderful set pieces: the jazz drummer in Young and Innocent, the shower scene in Psycho, the rooftop chase in Vertigo, among many, many others.
So right now, I'm looking at Strangers on a Train and, after that, Vertigo. And yet I think of North by Northwest as a perfect movie. In the past few years, I've had North by Northwest and Lifeboat come my way on cable, and passed them up. We take him for granted as part of our usual mental furniture, like the table in the formal dining room we walk past and never sit at. That is, we think, "Sure, he's great," but we don't seek him out all that often. Hitchcock lies in our minds, a bit like Shakespeare. Summary for the Busy Executive: Words for music.Ī lovely bit of gravy came from reading this book: it made me want to watch Hitchcock movies again.
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