Sir Alfred Hitchcock: Giant with a taste for bondage
Sunday, September 7th, 2008He always knew that the best way to keep an audience interested was to show characters in distress, and that female characters tended to attract more sympathy than men: hence his mantra, torture the heroine?. Hitchcock started working…in the silent era, and its the grammar and vocabulary of silent cinema that really underpins his work
We need only fast-forward about 20 years to see how fully Hitchcock’s art matured. For instance, Vertigo, considered by most critics to be his masterpiece, contains a sequence almost three times as long as the Sabotage bomb episode,…
