Alfred Hitchcock, I think, is an amazing filmmaker and I’ve seen ‘Rebecca’, and I never knew it was a Hitchcock film, and was utterly astonished because it is a very great film. And I often look at teacher’s poster in class of ‘Rebecca’ and think of the woman, burning the mansion, and I think; that is one good thriller. After seeing other works produced by Hitchcock, I was amazed and hold aspiration for him. He had produced amazing thriller, his genre, including: North by Northwest (1590), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963).
Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, London in 1899 and around the 1920s and became well known in England with films such as: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
He then moved to Hollywood a made 52 films, Rebecca (1940) being his first American movie. His movies became dissever, including a romantic comedy Mr and Mrs Smith (1941), courtroom drama The Paradise Case (1947) and his dark and disturbing film Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
Hitchcock uses familiar and different range of techniques in his films, which are cleverly used to tell his story visually. In Vertigo the uses of reverse zoom, visually expresses to us the man’s fear of heights, causing us to feel this dizzy. The use of mirroring in Shadow of a Doubt is extremely effective in showing that Uncle Charlie and Charlie (his niece) are extremely similar, however, they are different that one if of a dark nature and the other of a light nature.
Hitchcock often appeared in his films in the beginning, making a brief appearance, which is called a cameos role. His last film was Family Plot (1976), before he died of renal failure in 1980.
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