Alfred Hitchcock King of Suspense
Gangster Auteurs
In order to be a great author, you have to be able to show your originality from the other creators. Here, in the cinema field, more specifically in the Gangster genre you have to be able to impress the viewers, you have to make them entering a world that they never seen before and they have to believe that world. The atmosphere in a Gangster genre film is really interesting to analyze due to the author capacity to place an environment of fear, excitation, violence and inhumanity. The filmmaker’s goal is to make the viewers think about what they see, and how to interpret it. The violence of the images has the purpose to shock the viewers, to make them even more humans instead of identifying themselves to those characters. Here, we are going to wonder how we can appreciate an author’s way of writing and how the viewers perceive it. We will see the great work of Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window and North by Northwest and try to understand the meaning of his images.
Alfred Hitchcock is considered as the king of suspense. Indeed, critics have often said that Hitchcock is the least intellectual of filmmakers. The latter, however, reflected on his work and gave us an art of suspense that could prove as his cinematic art. The Mac Guffin is an original concept in Hitchcock’s movies. The origin of this word comes from an anecdote told by him. He used this story to mock those who demand a rational explanation and perfect consistency for all elements of a film. As a child, Alfred Hitchcock was a lonely boy full of imagination. What interests him is to manipulate the viewer and to make him as worried as the hero or heroine of his film. Hitchcock saw the movies for what they are, that is a spectacle and not a carbon copy of reality. So in order to keep in suspense the spectator, he explains “ you must establish the basic situation – with the characters, their personality in order to make these personages sympathetic to the public and informing the
In order to be a great author, you have to be able to show your originality from the other creators. Here, in the cinema field, more specifically in the Gangster genre you have to be able to impress the viewers, you have to make them entering a world that they never seen before and they have to believe that world. The atmosphere in a Gangster genre film is really interesting to analyze due to the author capacity to place an environment of fear, excitation, violence and inhumanity. The filmmaker’s goal is to make the viewers think about what they see, and how to interpret it. The violence of the images has the purpose to shock the viewers, to make them even more humans instead of identifying themselves to those characters. Here, we are going to wonder how we can appreciate an author’s way of writing and how the viewers perceive it. We will see the great work of Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window and North by Northwest and try to understand the meaning of his images.
Alfred Hitchcock is considered as the king of suspense. Indeed, critics have often said that Hitchcock is the least intellectual of filmmakers. The latter, however, reflected on his work and gave us an art of suspense that could prove as his cinematic art. The Mac Guffin is an original concept in Hitchcock’s movies. The origin of this word comes from an anecdote told by him. He used this story to mock those who demand a rational explanation and perfect consistency for all elements of a film. As a child, Alfred Hitchcock was a lonely boy full of imagination. What interests him is to manipulate the viewer and to make him as worried as the hero or heroine of his film. Hitchcock saw the movies for what they are, that is a spectacle and not a carbon copy of reality. So in order to keep in suspense the spectator, he explains “ you must establish the basic situation – with the characters, their personality in order to make these personages sympathetic to the public and informing the