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‘Hitchcock’ With Anthony Hopkins and Scarlett Johansson.
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Director : Sacha Gervasi.
Producer : Alan Barnette, Joe Medjuck, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman & Tom Thayer.
Writers : John J. McLaughlin (screenplay), Stephen Rebello (based on the book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" by).
Stars : Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson.
Distributed : Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Release Date : Nov 23, 2012.Genre : Biography, Drama.
Runtime : 98 minute.
The credits for the new movie “Hitchcock”
state that it is based on a book by Stephen Rebello. It isn’t, not
really, though details and true stories from the book have been slipped
into the mix amid amusing performances, historical re-creations and
heavily perfumed fertilizer. The book, “Alfred Hitchcock
and the Making of ‘Psycho,’ ” is a fast, diverting read that, true to
its title, tracks how the master of suspense, sometimes with surprising
effort, made his influential, perverse shocker.
“Hitchcock,” by contrast, is rather like Norman Bates, that nervous
pretty boy with mommy issues and a bobbing Adam’s apple, in that it too
takes extravagant liberties with the dead.
It does so largely by doing what some
disreputable Hitchcock biographical books have done: It reads him
through his work, as if his movies were a direct reflection of his mind,
soul and deepest, darkest desires. To that end, it is 1959 and
Hitchcock — a fine Anthony Hopkins buried in a fat suit and under distracting facial prosthetics
— is casting about for a new project. He’s just come off one of his
greatest films, “North by Northwest,” which delighted the public and
critics, a nice upturn after the disappointing reception of another of
his supreme achievements, “Vertigo.” (In September, after five decades, “Vertigo” bumped “Citizen Kane” from the No. 1 spot in Sight and Sound’s critics’ poll of “the greatest films of all time.”)
At the premiere of “North by Northwest” a
reporter asks Hitchcock, “You’re the most famous director in the history
of the medium, but you’re 60 years old, shouldn’t you just quit while
you’re ahead?” Thus challenged Hitchcock searches for “something fresh,
something different.” What he finds is “Psycho.”
Written by Robert Bloch, the 1959 novel was inspired by the macabre
crimes of Ed Gein, the Wisconsin serial killer who decorated his home
with human body parts and can be blamed for legions of horror films,
including “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” (Gein liked to walk around wearing the skin and body parts of his female victims, behavior echoed in “The Silence of the Lambs,” in which Mr. Hopkins plays a serial killer who’s the ultimate sophisticate.)
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