The Birds
The Birds is a film that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and is about a women who travels to a place called Bodega Bay and where she and the town is attacked by a flock of dangerous birds.
In this film the threat is not from a villain or anything like that but it is from nature, Hitchcock believed that this was a good idea as a film like this has never been done before. Thanks to this in this film it shows that there is no where to hide from these dangerous creatures.
Like most other thrillers this film has fast pace and constant action, this is what makes it a thriller.
This can be seen in this scene were a man has been killed by these incredibly dangerous birds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0aAfXp9WAU
The birds uses a specific device at the end of the film, it ends on a cliff hanger which is a device commonly used in thrillers. Hitchcock used this to show the birds as some sort of never ending nightmare as if the birds will always be against us and trying to get us.
In the schoolyard scene Tippi Hendren does not know the birds have been gathering but the audience does. We have knowledge denied to the character. This is dramatic Irony. In Schoolyard scene the underlying score of the innocent child’s song is in contrast to the evil in nature this gives the audience some sort of an unnerving feeling.
The macguffin of this movie is the lovebirds that the female character brought with her.
In this film the threat is not from a villain or anything like that but it is from nature, Hitchcock believed that this was a good idea as a film like this has never been done before. Thanks to this in this film it shows that there is no where to hide from these dangerous creatures.
Like most other thrillers this film has fast pace and constant action, this is what makes it a thriller.
This can be seen in this scene were a man has been killed by these incredibly dangerous birds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0aAfXp9WAU
The birds uses a specific device at the end of the film, it ends on a cliff hanger which is a device commonly used in thrillers. Hitchcock used this to show the birds as some sort of never ending nightmare as if the birds will always be against us and trying to get us.
In the schoolyard scene Tippi Hendren does not know the birds have been gathering but the audience does. We have knowledge denied to the character. This is dramatic Irony. In Schoolyard scene the underlying score of the innocent child’s song is in contrast to the evil in nature this gives the audience some sort of an unnerving feeling.
The macguffin of this movie is the lovebirds that the female character brought with her.
Hitchcock
said thrillers allow the audience, "to put their toe in the cold water of
fear to see what it's like” he has definitely succeeded in this film as it is something that has never been done before in any movie and it gives the audience something to think about. As they may think about how they have and still are mistreating birds throughout their lives and this film may make them think about them in another way.
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