Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant director who's fame is known all around the world and who became an ideal of director's skilfulness that every young director wants to reach. Hitchcock was raised at the atmosphere of strict morality of Jesuits, and that atmosphere influenced greatly his character and his works. At the age of sixteen Hitchcock went for work to the telegraph but later, as he found out about the "Laski" London film studio he with no hesitations went there as a subtitle artist. The lucky chance to show his skills Hitchcock received as one of the directors got ill and Hitchcock were let to finish his film. This work proved Hitchcock as a talented director and so film studio let him shot his own film "Number 13".
"The tavern Jamaica" was the last film of Alfred Hitchcock shot in England. That wasn't a good film and Hitchcock was extremely unsatisfied with it. That same time he received an invitation to come to Hollywood and work there as a director, sure Hitchcock received the invitation, and so year 1939 was the year of Hitchcock's arrival to America. The first picture shot by Hitchcock in Hollywood was "Rebecca" the romantic story with features of gothic horrors. That picture took the fifth place in the list of Hollywood's most box office films and was nominated for Oscar. In that year Alfred Hitchcock didn't get the Oscar as the director but his picture "Rebecca" did.
Another famous picture of Alfred Hitchcock is "The Bewitched", that film was also nominated for Oscar but won the prise only at the category "The best music". Talking about the influence of Alfred Hitchcock on the picture industry one should remember about the famous "Psychosis" film that has changed everything. The "Psychosis" became the emblematic picture of the horror genre. Film starts with the scene where the secretary steals the money of her boss's client, and so viewer believes that this is a picture of detective or crime genre, but on the 40th minute of the film the secretary suddenly dies. The secretary is killed by the maniac who suffered with psychosis. This film became an example of the most frightening films that creates a great tension and makes one flash creep.
"The Birds" is another masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock. This picture is distinctive by its acoustic accompaniment. Alfred Hitchcock refused the typical accompaniment and used the voices of the birds that were the main characters of the movie. Sure there wasn't the original voices but the worked up, and those voices provided picture with distinctive peculiar charm that was never known before.