Alfred Hitchcock Presents 10 Tips for Screenwriters and Directors
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2020
- Alfred Hitchcock Interview on Writing and Directing his movies The Birds, Psycho, Rebecca, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder. He was a film director and screenwriter. He is one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema along with the greatest Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino. Known as the "Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films.
tip 1 - 1:01 - Create suspense with Hitchcock's famous Bomb Theory
tip 2 - 2:45 - Make the audience scream and cry and they will come out of the theatre giggling. People go to the cinema to feel something
tip 3 - 4:13 - Give the audience some exposition but when you give it, it must appear to be something else
tip 4 - 4:53 - Direct the audience, rather than the actors (avoid cliches)
tip 5 - 6:24 - The quality of identification is most important for the audience's emotions
tip 6 - 7:14 - Whatever the content, always put your effort into creating an emotional response
tip 7 - 8:05 - Mystery is just an intellectual process, while the suspense is an emotional process
tip 8 - 9:10 - Learn the Kuleshov Effect to know how to "Show, don't tell"
tip 9 - 10:25 - Your story begins with only a couple of sentences
tip 10 - 11:11 - Happiness is a clear horizon - that's when you're the most creative. Hatred is wasted energy and it's all non-productive
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There's a reason he's one of the VERY greatest filmmakers of all time!
the only bad thing here is that this video is underrated, such genius pieces of advice!
What a brilliant and beautiful guy.
I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into this video man! Cheers👍🏼
What work? Two times I've opened their videos and it's the same quotes one after the other. Until 3:20 he tells two times the Disneyland story
@@alexispapageorgiou72 the work is in finding all the footage of Hitchcock and going through it to pick out the valuable points.
The way in which these videos are formated we are given 'teasers' if you will, as to what the video contains. Then each point is visited in great detail, giving more context and longer clips of footage.
What an amazing speech at the end. Almost teared up. What an amazing man.
My personal Top 10:
1. Rear window
2. Dial M for murder
3. Psycho
4. Rope
5. Frenzy
6. The man who knew too much (1956)
6. North by northwest
7. Strangers on a train
8. The Birds
9. The lodger
10. Vertigo
As a film major who is about to shoot their first indie film in March, this was so inspiring. He was such an interesting and creative filmmaker and most certainly a pioneer to most of the elements we still love about films to this day
How did your shoot go?
@@codytierson845 Unfortunately my two main actors which are semi pro wrestlers got offered contracts they couldn’t refuse over the summer, 1 week before our table read they dropped the news. ☹️ It is ok though I am happy for those guys and want to see their careers take off but I wrote and revised the majority of the script around their personalities. So, unfortunately its at a standstill but I need a new wireless follow focus system anyways and money is tight so I am hoping to pick up some paid gigs over the summer in the meantime until we can begin production. Thankfully everyone is still on board but and honestly I am learning so much throughout the process. Producing a film solo is a very hard thing to do, especially with no budget.
@@codytierson845 Also, what timing on your comment. I am currently watching Hitchcock’s “Notorious” for Film History 😄
@@BriannaRoseCinematography Sorry for the production troubles, wrangling talent around a production schedule is tough. Good luck with the wireless follow focus setup, and I hope you can shoot this summer!
@@codytierson845 Thank you so much ❤️
Alfred Hitchcock was undoubtedly one of the wisest Filmmakers of all time! His knowledge on the craft of storytelling, filmmaking and life in particular was extraordinary. His wisdom was rare and precious. Genius and a Legend!
what a wonderful definition of happiness!
While working as a 1st and 2nd grade English teacher. Sometimes Id play a game with the kids. Id step by the door and I would start swinging my arm like an axe or blade pendullum. I would tell the kids that in order to go out to their break they'd have to make a line and cross the doorframe one by one and dodge the "blade". Some kids would get so stressed over this but they would also always come out giggling, actually some of them would re enter the classroom just so they could dodge the blade again. We all love to be scared and then be releaved of that tension.
What a unique and powerful visionary.
thank you for this. Mans a Genius !
If, my mind is still working,Mr Hitchcock said the most important thing is the script, the script, the script!
Great video thanks...He was a master. I actually met the lady who was originally his script girl in the UK ...who left the UK with the family when he went to the USA and she was then his daughter's nanny later housekeeper before returning to the UK. She told me there was a knock on the door one day and she answered it. It was Cary Grant who said "Hi" to her and kissed her on the cheek. She told me she didn't wash for a week. I also saw and waved to Pat Hitchcock (his daughter) when she came to the UK and took her ex-nanny out to lunch. She always remembered her nanny. Pat was dressed in a red trouser suit and was with another lady and a man who drove the car. She (the nanny) had a photo of Hitch standing beside a bus...he was holding a sign that said "Hallo ...." But I have forgotten her name...darn it...anyone remember?
Very good collections of aphorisms from Alfred Hitchcock. Lots of wisdom in those observations of his and inspiration for greater cinematic works.
So inspiring! Great video!!!!
What a great mind and a great man...
Thanks for this one and all the others too!
Such an awesome video!
Great video!
Hitch is still a #MasterofCinema
Thanks you so much for your great film.
Wow thank you for downloading this video 🌹🌹🌹🌹
That music at the end feels profound. Well used.
Nice channel
Could u do one for the Coen brothers? They’re my favorite writers
Agree!
Yes…
Love the Coen Brothers. Really enjoyed O Brother, Big Lebowski, Buster Scruggs and recently saw their first - Blood Simple. They are the master of what can go wrong, will go wrong.
This is my favourite video.
That last one was priceless.
As per my point of view .Hitchcock's movies are fast paced movies with great shots and storytelling ...Which surpassed any director from that era. That's why people and critics loves his films. You can't imagine that pace that psycho have if it was directed by Satyajit ray , Akira Kurosawa and others
Master
I had a question. But first, great work on the video! I just had a random question. What is the name of the song at the end of the video when Hitchcock is explaning what happiness means to him? this song starts @11:22. if you could tell me what song that is or what music that is specificall, that would be great
Great video, could you please provide the song used in the background in the first 51 seconds?
Now we just need a Soulja Boy mashup with DL's iconic YOOOOU
What’s that music playing in the beginning? I wanna hear more of it.
Genius!
Nice video ❤️
Wow 🙏
What music cue plays during 10?
I feel like the shower scene in Psycho goes contrary to the bomb theory. First, Mother appears suddenly and shocks the audience. Second, Marion is killed (i.e., the bomb goes off). This is the most famous scene in Hitchcock, perhaps in all of cinema.
no but that is different. We all knew that it was supposed to be the mother. It was all leading up to that big reveal but it eventually turned out even better . He turned up his bomb theory by giving us suspense but in the reveal of it a suprise. A cinematic orgy imo. An example would be of the bomb theory but instead when the clock turns 12 the bomb does something it was not supposed to but even worse. Hitch is smart.
Indeed there’s a great deal of mistery in Psycho and sequence of big shocks throughout the film. But the thing he really does is to provide the audience a certain amount of information like in the shower scene for example. We don’t know she will be killed in the bathroom, but she was being observed by Norman through the little whole in the wall to her bedroom before it making the audience feel uneasy by this sort of behavior. In the case of the mother is what the fellow commentator said above. The information of her character is given since the very beginning and we eventually get to see her in the end but not the way we expected it
@@casrifay Completely agree with this, but I would not want to reduce Hitchcock's rule to "there should be a sense of foreboding or mystery." I think he broke the rule with the shower scene, because this was a situation where the rule would not apply. I don't mean (by the way) that he said to himself "the rule does not apply" -- rather, he said "telling the story this way is the most effective way."
Aspiring Hollywood writers schould be forced to watch this in their classrooms.
What movie title at 11:50 ?
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good 13mins.
My name sake 😁 very intelligent man
This is extremely edited.
An example: the 10’th question. His answer is real for the first seconds, and then it fades into what ever the editor wanted.
How do I know?
Well, I’ve heard the original interview. It’s here on UA-cam.
And the background sound changes.
this video is for all aspiring crime novelist
You ever gonna do one on Edgar Wright?
Cant believe im like 420 as im loading a new bowl 😂🔥💨
Love this channel! Been binging all your content! I also make films which you can find on my channel if you want to watch some good entertainment.
If he was the one that said "Marvel are theme parks" I'd believe him.
Scorcese said it.
I miss those days with a clear horizon. It's so easy to achieve. No one bothers you when your horizon's clear because you're probably worthless. At the same time nothing's really stopping you from creating. There are a lot of homeless people but they survive. Most of them are on drugs. If they can survive without contributing to society certainly a creative person with just a pen and paper or a sketchbook or a guitar can survive.
Music at the end was cheesy.
Hitchcock said he didn't quarrel, but there's a reason that the opening to Strangers on a Train is the only part of Raymond Chandler's original script they used. He didn't mind quarreling then.
he said his definition of happiness.
Hitchcock underlines why so many movies are just so bad now, unimaginative, cliche, etc
Wait, are you saying he's pointing out why do many movies today are bad?
The music you put on at the end of this ruined what he was saying.