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Hitchcock Films
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Hitchcock Films
Audience identification with central characters in "Psycho" & "The Birds".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
4 sources |
2001
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"One key to Alfred Hitchcock's great success as a movie director is his ability to persuade the viewer to identify with the central characters of his films. Audience identification with the dangers experienced by characters in peril is the key to successful suspense. But Hitchcock sometimes convinced the audience to identify with characters whose fates did not provide the release that audiences usually feel when their hero saves her/himself (or is saved) from danger. In The Birds (1963) Melanie Daniels is all but destroyed by the unexplained attacks of wild birds and the film's ambiguous ending does not leave the spectator with much hope for her. In Psycho (1960), of course, "everything is done to encourage the spectator to identify with Marion Crane," just to see her spectacularly murdered only one third of the way through the movie (Wood 143). In both films.."More papers on Hitchcock Films:
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Hitchcock Films (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Hitchcock-Films/10752
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"Hitchcock Films" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Hitchcock-Films/10752>
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