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If you could look like anything...anything at all....what would you look like? I'd be the wind. ...........It's easy to be someone's friend when all you need is someone to console you. It's much harder to be there for them when they're happy all the time. .............Even when I say nothing, it's a beautiful use of negative space.


























Blind Eyes Closed
 
Thursday, November 01, 2007
there's so many things  
Distance has a way of making love understandable.

What is it about Hitchcock that is such genius? I've been trying to pinpoint it all night. He's charismatic, knows how to work well with his team, can visualize his entire movie (sets, costumes, dialogue, shots) and then charms his co-workers to see his same vision. He knows how to critique himself. He knows how to delegate responsibility so it's not overwhelming. And you can tell all this by watching his films. You can see the flaws that he saw, but you know that it's fairly close to perfection.

I watched North By Northwest tonight for the first time. Don't even get me started about the title because it drives me crazy (it should be Northwest by Northwest but that doesn't sound nearly as badass), but the rest of it.. man. The dialogue is fantastic, Cary Grant is charming but still kind of awesome, and there are no unnecessary scenes, or "no scene" scenes as Hitchcock calls them. I tried thinking about it on the way home and pinpointing exactly what's so fantastic about Hitchcock, and what makes it so amazing. I thought about what would happen if a movie like that was made today, with today's hollywood standards.

If this movie was made today, it would have been needlessly complicated. The moviemakers want to trick you into thinking it's a good movie when you have to see it more than once to really get it, and that's twice the money in their pocket. North by Northwest was complex, but it wasn't the least bit hard to follow. I didn't miss any of the movie by thinking "wait, what just happened? who's that guy?" I could just enjoy it. And be amazed. So congratulations, Hitchcock, you have won me over yet again. I look forward to next time.
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