On January 24 1925, Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature film, The Pleasure Garden. The film was a commercial failure, however it propelled the aspiring director into the thriller genre, which would make him one of the most influential directors of the 20th century. Hitchcock landed the film after being turned down for another film, The Rat, by Graham Cutts.
Hitchcock’s second film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, was his first thriller and the director had already begun to exhibit trademarks which he is famous for, including the use of Expressionist techniques and the concept of “the wrong man.” Between 1926 and 1976, Hitchcock made close to 65 films, among them the infamous Psycho.
Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980, having established himself as one of the greatest thriller directors.
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Hitchcock was very much influenced by German expressionism and it can be seen in his deep focus and camera angles. He was more a teaser by making his audience expect something awful by dropping some false leads around and in the end it all turns out he was having fun at our expense. He seems to have said, – I am paraphrasing it, ‘there is no terror in actual gun report but in your expectation of it’.
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Thanks also for visiting my blog. And especially thanks for adding to the article. And he could make something terrifying without actually showing it. Like the shower scene in Psycho never actually showed the knife stabbing the victim. Brilliant.