Joe Bob’s Thought of the Day: Hitchcock Edition
Added 2023-07-15 12:58:55 +0000 UTCThe reason Hitchcock treated actors and writers badly is that he couldn’t act or write.
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Only problem is to consider the power dynamic. It’s far easier to pick on a new performer or someone weaker than you than it is to pick on someone like a Grant or Stewart.
Peter
2023-07-18 23:04:51 +0000 UTCLove that movie 🎥
Joshua Sherwood
2023-07-18 01:42:43 +0000 UTCI didn't ever believe him when he said "Good Evening"
2023-07-16 20:55:57 +0000 UTCOh man oh man the world NEEDS this 😍
2023-07-15 22:57:43 +0000 UTCHe gave good cameo though.
2023-07-15 22:44:52 +0000 UTCAnother gifted dude who never learned to play nice with others. Steve Jobs had the same problem. Adored for his work by the public, but loathed by many who knew him.
2023-07-15 20:20:01 +0000 UTCReal talk mang
2023-07-15 20:07:51 +0000 UTCWait until you hear about some guy from Torrance with a foot fetish. You peaked with your analysis of a Madonna song, QT.
GeddyLeeRoth
2023-07-15 16:01:57 +0000 UTCI mean he's not wrong
2023-07-15 15:25:03 +0000 UTCHitchcock famously referred to actors as being "cattle." Although he had a very dry sense of humour, hard to tell how serious he was at any given point. Hitch did clearly want complete and total control over his sets though. I think actors were the one component he struggled with the most to keep in line with his vision. And his actresses... think they got the roughest end out of the deal. He was very obsessed with icy blondes.
Celluloid Sickness
2023-07-15 14:52:27 +0000 UTCHow did he treat other directors?
2023-07-15 14:26:58 +0000 UTCWell, you know, my first day working on your friend Fred Williamson's movie "One Down Two to Go" when I was 17, I was taken aside and explained that the actors are loathed by everyone else on a film set, and that we refer to them as "talent" in a sarcastic way. This was the 80s and it had been that way for a long while-- the separation between "crew" and "talent." If Hitchcock was "bad to actors," I doubt that Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart would have worked with him over and over again.
Peter Bernard
2023-07-15 13:59:53 +0000 UTC
