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The Girl (Hitchcock films)

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Grannyknot Fri 28-Dec-12 16:02:40

Did anyone else watch The Girl? It is about Hitchcock's obsession with blondes for his films, "...blondes make the best victims, like blood in the snow". I thoroughly enjoyed it and then went straight on to watch the black and white version of 'Rebecca'. I wonder why there has never been a remake of the latter? Anyway it took me back to my childhood, my mother was a big fan of the movies and we would sit on her lap and watch all the 'great' films with her (she would cover our eyes when she thought it necessary, no need to cover ears in those days, no one swore!), although some of the films had 'adult' themes adultery, drunkenness etc. (for those days anyway, the films nowadays would have been classed as soft porn!).

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whenim64 Fri 28-Dec-12 16:13:26

I missed 'The Girl' but will find it in the next few days. Sounds interesting.

Rebecca was remade about 15 years ago, and shown again on TV earlier this year, in two parts. I believe Dreamworks film company is doing another remake now. Such a great story.

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Grannyknot Fri 28-Dec-12 17:44:33

I completely missed the remake of Rebecca on telly. The Girl is a fascinating study of the psychological and social mores of those times. Hitchcock (no oil painting of course) saying to his secretary "You'll never understand, you look like the back of a bus" when she comments on his obsession with Tippi Hedren ("the girl"). And when he is beastly, the women just weep into their typewriters/the dishes/their hankies - nowadays he'd get short shrift.

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Grannyknot Fri 28-Dec-12 17:49:49

Just found this ... www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/9753977/Tippi-Hedren-interview-Hitchcock-put-me-in-a-mental-prison.html says it all. I must stop now, am getting hopping mad thinking about what an awful megalomaniacal type of person he was.

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Butty Fri 28-Dec-12 17:51:55

Hitchcock has always given me the heebie-jeebies and thought him a distasteful predator of women. Many of his films were vehicles to debase young women.
What little tv I do watch, this wouldn't be on my viewing list.

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