Alfred Hitchcock was confused by a laxative commercial
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID: "May I say I am very confused by that last commercial. Well, it was a commercial for a laxative. And I wonder why all those people doing sports and all that sort of thing--where they would need a laxative after such vigorous movement all over the place."
'All breasts sag eventually' - one of my new favorite quotes!
Such a great sense of humour.
British humour at its best, truly. Hitchcock was (and is) one of England's best filmmakers.
Very witty
@@Communist-Doge Indeed
I remember watching "The Birds" in Media class at school ,then later after I got of the bus at home there were about 30-40 crows sitting on the power lines.That freaked me out a bit.
I watched it in English at high school when I was about 14-15, I remember my teacher (who I really liked) saying to the class before she put it on, something along the lines of “this is an older horror film and it doesn’t have something scary happening every few minutes.” And we watched it and she was right. Hitchcock was fantastic at building up the suspense. You don’t need to have something happening all the time because your imagination will fill in the blanks.
That being said, I haven’t watched any Hitchcock film for a while. Probably the most recent was North by Northwest which seems to be on TV fairly regularly where I live. I’ve also seen Vertigo and parts of Rear Window. But I’ve never seen Psycho and have wanted to see it for a long time, it just never seems to be on TV around here. Shame. I’ll get it on DVD one of these days then it’ll be on the telly, that’s always the way 😂
Psycho released 1960-interview with Dick Cavett 1970 Hitchcock says in interview Psycho was 10 years ago so it was indeed
1970.
If Mr. Alfred Hitchcock hadn't chosen to be a genius filmmaker, he might have been a genius deadpan comedian. He was just hilarious.
The very word..."deadpan"...with ominous overtones.
Typical British
Hitchcock never fails to amuse me. A very clever man and a one of a kind filmmaker.
I would have loved to have met Hitchcock what a brilliant mind.
3000 birds were used for The Birds, the smartest were the Ravens. Seagulls were the most vicious. What psychology did you use on Seagulls to control? Birdseed.
Having just seen the movie "Hitchcock" I found this very interesting. What a wonderful man. Such a sense of humour. Thanks for sharing and thanks You Tube for making it possible to see these gems.
Hitchcock truly a genius ❤️👏❤️
Alfred Hitchcock might be from the great England and in Usa Alfred Hitchcock is a legend and one of best in Hollywood!!!!!
The most influential director in cinema history
We swapped Hitchcock for Kubrick.
Ed Camp many greats who became legends in the USA came from England ,bob hope ,Stan laurel ,Charlie chaplain ,to name a few .
@@johncastle8254 Cary Grant
We were unique, class and lovely, Hitch
Miss you, Maestro
Thank you for your Art,
May you rest in Peace, Dearest 🤍
I will never forget you, and will remember you forever
God, we'll give you Michael Bay in exchange for Hitchcock!
You'd be terribly shorting God.
we'll sweeten the deal by throwing in his profits from the transformers franchise.
C'mon, God!
Further sweeten it with the Kardashian sluts
He's a Master of suspense, no difference against Hitchcock when he presents!!!
What all visitors to this site need to know is that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hitchcock had a tv series called ...ahem ...."Alfred HItchcock Presents." These were 1/2 hour shows that were "mini-thrillers". Some were just so-so, but most were very, very frightening.
However, the best part of each show was definitely Hitchcock himself, who spoke at the beginning and end of each episode. He was absolutely hilarious. True genius.
I remember that series and I think that "Alfred Hitchcock presents" was the name of the very first season of that series because the following series were called "The Alfred Hitchcock's Hour" or probably vice versa. I even bought them in DVDs. Sometimes I even liked Hitchcock's sketches at the beginning and at the end of the film more than the film itself. Hilarious!
The movie The Birds inspired me to make my own movie called "The Kittens" where a bunch of kittens attack and bite and tap people with their paws.
James - Love the plot outline. 🐾
Did the your movie ever screened in the movie house or kept in the cemetery vault of late Sir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Did you ever see 'Kitten Kong'? No joke: episode of the 'Goodies;. UK TV. Giant kitten demolishing London.
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Londres, 13 de agosto de 1899-Los Ángeles, 29 de abril de 1980) fue un director de cine, productor y guionista británico. Pionero en muchas de las técnicas que caracterizan a los géneros cinematográficos del suspenso y el thriller psicológico, tras una exitosa carrera en el cine británico en películas mudas y en las primeras sonoras, que le llevó a ser considerado el mejor director de Inglaterra, Hitchcock se trasladó a Hollywood en 1939.
His films made you use a lot of imagination . And it's what you don't really see that is so frightening .
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Have you ever seen Frenzy ?
@@vittoriostoraro That was the only Hitchcock movie I didn't like.
@@vittoriostoraro yeah, I did. Rather repulsive. Sometimes it’s better to NOT show things.
Veronica Cartwright was wonderful and she and Hitch became best friends on The Birds.
She became a real scream queen with the terrifying remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien and other films.
notice how in those days people didn't lock their cars.
Demographics were different.
Oh they did in the city
His voice. Unmisstakable.
The Birds is a surrealist masterpiece.
I find it interesting how something like the man falling down the stairs in that one scene seems so cheesy to us now and if you ask someone on the street how they filmed that they could probably tell you with hardly any background knowledge at all. Yet back then they were all fascinated to learn how they filmed the "curious effect" in that scene
Today, with CGI, the scene from The Birds looks so phony. But in 1964 audiences hadn't seen anything like that in movies, so it seemed very real.
The scene with the birds was real....he used real birds and they actually did attack her
Mr Hitchcock draws you in with any type of conversation
They don't make them like that anymore.
@greg5566 That's where you and I are of opposite opinion. I find Laugh in to be unbearably jejune and juvenile. Cavett used an interview style that, especially in the longer format, allowed the subject to reveal themselves in a casual conversation that removed the person from the persona. It's a rare talent and these are the best interviews that we have of some of these "golden age" celebrities. Certainly, Cavett has some annoying traits, which I outlined, but I cannot deny his contribution
@greg5566 Cavett is something here and trying to maintain a line between erudition and the casual establishment wariness that shows he's still hip and young, which is pretty typical at that age. The show format was sophisticated, even in this period, and he wants to maintain that level even though he's of an age where he appreciates and is even star struck by his guests. This is obvious with Betty Davis, but he tries to maintain a sang froid in order to mask it and shift the focus.
THE BEST THERE EVER WAS , I HAVE ALL HIS MOVIES
Me too!
1:43 The worst thing I've ever heard about Hitchcock was that he once bet someone on the crew that said crew member could not spend a night chained to a piano. Little did the guy know, but Hitchcock had slipped laxative into his coffee before the night began. Apparently, his fascination with the stuff continued on after that.
In Patrick McGilligan's biography of Hitchcock we learn more about the story. The 'someone on the crew' was a long-term crew member who everyone enjoyed pranking, who took the event in good humour, who had worked for Hitchcock for years, and who kept on working happily with Hitchcock for years after that. The (earlier) Spoto biography Spoto writes of the crew member weeping with frustration and embarrassment, etc - all bullshit conjured up by Spoto because he hated Hitchcock's guts. Half of Spoto's book is like that.
@@anthonythorne6519 he was fine with Hitchcock after hitch made him shit his pants in front of everyone?
Rear window, a wonderful movie which can make me fall asleep like a baby... he has a gift of making a film personal, although many today can create an exciting movie, he has a way of making them personal.
As a railroad worker if we had boxcar and didn't know it's contents we'd call it either GOK or a widgets. (GOK, God Only Knows). In trucking we used FAK, Frieght All Kinds.
Hitchcock was fabulously intelligent and had a wonderful sense of dry humor... it's a joy to get to hear more examples of that humor. :)
Tippi Hedron, Rod Taylor, and Suzanne Pleshette in the Birds
Man, that scene from "The Birds" still gives me the willies!
It will be interesting as to how he is treated in the two upcoming biographies this month - the behind the scenes stories of Tippi Hendren and how he came to shoot "Psycho" (two separate films).
Respectfully disagree about The Birds being a dated film...I watched it at the Fox Theater in Fullerton, CA with a full crowd and the suspense and tension is just as poignant as it was then. At the point when Mrs. Brenner discovers the farmer, you can feel/hear the crowd gasp at the split second image on the screen...just one of many good moments and a good movie to watch for any era.
Alfred Hitchcock had a special way with advertisements.
@greg5566 Rowan and Martin were working in a completely different genre, plus they're 12 years older than Cavett which gives them a whole different perspective on life. It also gives them a daddy like appearance when dealing with the "kids" on the show. The format, here, is that they are part of the older set, but let the cool, hip kids take over to let the silliness ensue. Honestly, though, I think Laugh In was completely safe and gives us far less now than the Cavett interviews.
I think Hitchcock was a superb expert when it came to dealing with talk show hosts and everything else for that matter...I really LOVED his daughters acting and wish she had done more acting...I wonder what she is doing or if she is still around...seems like I remember when he died reading some comments from her that she is living in her home country of Britian?
correct me please if I am wrong....
Also, I'm not just referring to cgi. I'm referring also to modern cameras, HD, non-linear editing, as well as new lighting and sound techniques. Hitch would've tried any technique to get his canvas perfect. The industry's come a long way not just for cgi, but the entire medium.
Few of us are in any doubt that he would've been able to create some absolute masterworks if he had the benefits filmmakers enjoy today because of himself and people like Kubrick, John Ford, Kurosawa and others.
@greg5566 Respectfully, they are not the only interviews of these people. Many lived into the seventies, 80s, and 90s. They were interviewed during the fifties and sixties, according to the style, and the ones who survived were interviewed later. Cavett's style was ground breaking and brilliant. One reason that we cannot get more of this kind of commentary from our more intelligent or modern veteran celebrities is that either the style has changed or he interviewer is too self absorbed.
He said Roman Catholic school give him sense of suspense because of the punishments. He loved Edgar Allan Poe and Modern art.
My Gawd, look at the size of his flippers, I mean hands. They look like they belong on an elephant seal!
he's sitting across from Cavett for scale. David could stand atop a wedding cake. He's about 105 lbs
Nothing like Hitchcock humor!
Those Birds seem to be From the family of teradactal de Republicans de la Tejas, If I'm not mistaken. (r)
Most of the children who were running away from the birds were laughing (not a very good thing when they are supposed to be afraid).
I love his voice!!!
After "there ARE no lions in Scotland", the guy should have said, "I know! See how well it works?"
he was the best
He's the greatest director of all history and for some reason he's also hilarious. Everytime he talks I crack up, I'm not making fun of him... I'm just saying
Guess I stand corrected in my comment. Times were different then and obviously I was unaware of Dick's way of interviewing :-) Having said that, I don't believe that a similar interview could be repeated today with much success...
he's the father of cinema
My mistake - I meant digital video not HD. Anyway, you're certainly allowed your opinion and believe it or not I share some of it. Peace.
We can only wonder the sorts of films Hitch would've been able to produce with today's technology. Like Kubrick, we'll sadly never know.
(And Tippi Hedren was smokin' in The Birds)
@Banatterie
June 8 1972
Why is there no date of the interview?
June 2nd 1972 while he was promoting Frenzy
Dick's haircut says 1972-4.
4 people were traumatized by Psycho
Is this film what was trying to be imitated by "The Happening"?
You know what they say: Big hands, big...talent!
Dick Cavett's face at 7:20 is a picture.
he was so with it just a really smart guy
Gotta love Sir Alfred Hitchprick..!!
Loved his Hour Show
Damn, that clip from _Birdemic: The Pre-Quill_ -- wow & whoa.
So's excited! 👍👍 🐤💥🐦💥🐥
"It's like wishing Shakespeare was alive today so he could write for Sex in the City", um, that's a bit of a stretch. The difference between the two is writing talent, not technology.
When used in the hands of a competent and visionary director, modern film techniques can greatly enhance the experience. There's no doubt to me that Hitchcock would've embraced it in a big way. Don't forget that Hitch always made the most of the 'technology' available to him at the time and tried to push it.
"considering the weather over there, I'm surprised" LOL
What does the title have to do with the video?!
his voice reminds me Winston Churchill
The fact that there was not very much technology is what makes it so great.
With todays movies, everything is fake and lacking imagination because we can have a computer do it for us.
What's the box of tissues for? Spontaneous weeping about the carpet? :)
great filmmaker, even greater jowls
The Shakespeare comment was about an artist's placement in time; the arrogant notion that our time is somehow more advanced is ridiculous. Hitch and Shakespeare were of their time and thank goodness for it. And please don't make fallacious remarks like, "few of us are in doubt", as if to marginalize my opinion. HD lowers cost, but it wasn't responsible for the avant- in "Inland Empire". Advanced editing techniques are not new and Hitch employed them. Ideas are the crux not a claim to modernity.
Laxative commercial confusion at 1:43.
I object to any lauding of Lucas & Spielberg.
It suggests that they might be artists.
If I were into HERO worship...again I say..He would be my HERO!!!
Here's Camille Paglia on the scene from The Birds:
"Like Furies, the crows harass the children from behind, nipping their necks and cheeks, as we seem to slide helplessly backward downhill, with the mob about to trample us. There's a tremendous noise of mingled screams and raucous bird cries. After the first flash of real horror, I generally settle down to laughing and applauding the crows, whom I regard as Coleridgean emissaries vandalizing sentimental Wordsworthian notions of childhood."
"Birdseed"
That sounds like the greatest film ever made.
It's a shame his films were so universally popular. He might be more respected then!
The greatest of them all!
Alfred Hitchcock Hour
you would be surprised how much exercise i did in the past with 8 cups of coffee, and eating fiber every day plus, more and still no poop for at least 2 weeks. Whenever i traveled this happen and still even at home it was never normal..so, i can see sports people sadly with constipation lmao, it's possible.
DICK CAVETT
19 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1936
85 AÑOS (86)
Hitchcock's movie "Birds" was all the rave but I thought it was a boring film... I just didn't appreciate it because I never had a fear of birds... alligators maybe but not birds... now if he had made a movie about flying alligators...
put it in 1.25 speed for a superior experience
This dude does a great Hitchcock.
I hate the way he shuts them off and goes 'We'll be back after the break'.
Well thats a stupid thing to hate really.
I really mean that I would rather the interviewer didnt speak, and just let both Welles and Hitchcock speak , but then of course, there would be no interview....
2:57 reminds me so much of Jurassic Park.
Holy crap!!! Drew brees!!!!
hitchcock never laugh at his jokes, only makes a slight smile
The interviewer talks to Hitchcock like if he's an idiot although he's one of the best filmmakers of all history. If i was interviewing Hitchcock I wouldn't ask him about they trained some freaking birds
Well, we can almost certainly say it is a majority.
Thanks so much for posting these clips. DIck Cavet is who he is. He managed to get some good responses to the questions. You can tell Mr. Hitchcock enjoys revealing his little trade secrets. well done.
thanks for posting.
when was this recorded?
1970
The interviewer talks to Hitchcock like if he's an idiot although he's one of the best filmmakers of all history
every guy movie has a mcgoffen, i just didnt know it had a name.
Did he ever direct Carole Lombard?
Mr & Mrs Smith (1941)
His mother was Irish.
Tippi was my fav Alfred girl ~
She said Hitchcock ended her career out of spite.