i need help for my film research project and my lit final essay FOR PROF WASHINGTON WATSON

Vicente De Leon

Professor Jenkins

HUM 3321

July 27, 2016

Birds movie review

The movie Directed by Alfred Hitchcock is more about human relations than animals, in this case, birds brutally attacking people. I found this movie quit strange and meaningless for many reasons. The movie has two plots, the relationship between Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) and Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) who both met at a pet store in San Francisco and a suddenly strange behavior from all kinds of birds towards people. As you know birds symbolize freedom, but in this case they symbolize death. Very unusual because none of these plots are solved at the end, they just continue. There’s a scene in the movie that if you really pay attention to it, you’ll know how female act between each other. When Melanie is talking with Anny Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette) about Mitch’s mother Lydia (Jessica Tandy), if you fully pay attention you see, for me, how female really know each other and have these deep dark secretes that we men will never know. How Lydia dislike Anny and now Melanie. There’s a dominant competition between Lydia and Melanie. “The devil knows what type of demon he gave birth to”, is a phrase that I will use for this scene. All women hate each other in the inside even if they lie and tell you’re wrong, but I won’t get into details. Lydia is afraid to be left alone, because know this girl, who likes to swim naked in fountains, is going to still her son from her.

The author of the Telegraph movie review reveals one of the most disturbing scenes in cinematic history and in the 1963 film “The Birds.” The scene contains a woman who discovers a corpse of the bedroom occupant with his eye sockets bleeding with gore. A movie made by Alfred Hitchcock three years after his success with “Psycho”, gives a small plot about what the film is about. How Mitch and Melanie meet each other at a pet store while Mitch was looking for “love birds” for his eleven years old sister. Also he wrote about the triangle female relation between Lydia, Anny and Melanie and how strange these birds are acting. Alfred Hitchcock also likes the idea to change the perspective we humans have of birds, our “melodic friends” into fearless beasts. Finally the author wrote about the 370 special trick shots the movie had and how horrific it was in 1963.

Joyce Slaton author of the Common Sense Media movie review wrote that the movie is quit talky and slow, that it is a good movie for families that really enjoy horror films. She also wrote about many scenes director Alfred Hitchcock planned for this movie, for example the part in which the guy that is about to light a cigarette while people are screaming at him as the gasoline flows beneath his feet and how he burns and explodes seconds later after he burns his finger with the match. Also the scene of the guy lying dead in the floor with his eye sockets dark bleeding with such gruesome and gory. Stating at the end that this whole movie idea about birds sounds really silly, but in this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock is the opposite.

Works Cited

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