The Camera Moves That Built Hitchcock’s Suspense Machine
Few filmmakers understood the psychology of the camera as well as Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock believed suspense was not created by plot twists alone, but by…
Tippi Hedren’s Ordeal Filming ‘The Birds’ Climactic Attic Scene Delivered a Classic Hitchcock Suspense Scene
In The Birds, director Alfred Hitchcock deliberately mimicked the claustrophobic shower murder scene in Psycho, when Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is trapped in an attic…
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What Is A MacGuffin? An Explanation of Film’s Most Mysterious Plot Device
What is a MacGuffin? It’s perhaps the most mysterious plot device in film. The MacGuffin (sometimes spelled McGuffin) is often misunderstood, and can be a…
