It was more horrible than any fantasy horror." And to some extent, Hitchcock - you know, the film that we're talking about - is something that he would delight in even if he might be horrified at aspects of it, because it is partly the consequence of this long process that he started in the 1920s of building himself into a public personality that we could take delight in, to such an extent that I don't think people in general are interested in the real Alfred Hitchcock."At the end of the war," Hitchcock told Henri Langlois in the Seventies, "I made a film to show the reality of the concentration camps, you know. And so he enjoyed, he enjoyed this idea of acting, and his persona and the image that he had crafted. And he was a wonderful mimic, he enjoyed acting, he could stand up - especially in the silent era, if an actress wondered, you know, how she should behave in a certain dinner party scene - he could stand up and flounce around the room and show her precisely. "He started doing that early in his career by appearing in cameos, and increasingly funnier cameos, that we began to expect to see him in in his films. On Hitchcock's television persona and trafficking in self-parody as host of Alfred Hitchcock Presents You could not ask him a question he hadn't been asked, and he was bored, he was glum, he was not in good physical condition, and he must have known the film was his last and it would not be very good." I should add, Robert, he was not funny when I met him on the set of Family Plot, standing in the long line of journalists who came from all around the world to watch him make his final movie, which everyone expected it to be. He is best at the very beginning and at the end when he's allowed to be funny, as Hitchcock, and everyone who knows him would tell you, was enormously funny. "Well, I think Anthony Hopkins really brings people into the film. On Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hitchcock And when I say something's foolish, I want to stipulate that I find the film to be a very creative and clever fiction, and one that you can certainly believe, partly because Hitchcock is such a legend and people would rather believe the legend." "Emails went around the world astonished at this plot turn, that Alma would go to the studios and direct what is described as a very important shot while Hitchcock is home in bed with a kind of self-induced illness because he's so unhappy over the way things are going in his private life. On the scene in Hitchcock when Alma takes over directing part of Psycho when her husband is ill And they were creative partners, although the film goes way overboard to depict Alma as the person who bails Hitchcock out of every crisis that he's supposedly undergoing." In fact, I always say it's one of the few happy marriages I know of in Hollywood that lasted for 50-plus years. "It's not true that they had strife in their marriage. On Hitchcock's relationship with his wife, Alma, which is portrayed in the film as a creative partnership strained by jealousy He had two houses, he had vast savings, so that aspect of the movie where he's - where they're constantly worrying about money to the point of talking about, you know, saving on groceries, is foolish." If you can take out a mortgage on your house and make a movie in Hollywood - then or now, no director did who was under studio contract. On whether Hitchcock actually took out a mortgage on his Hollywood house to finance the making of Psycho So it was one of the brilliant deals of all time, and Hitchcock and his then-agent, Lew Wasserman, foresaw its value to them." Hitchcock forwent his salary and agreed to take everything on the back end, including percentages and ownership of Psycho. "Yes, he was under contract at Paramount, and the studio was horrified at the possibility of this lurid film being made. On whether Hitchcock, did, in fact, have trouble getting Psycho made, as the film suggests Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson), Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) toast to Psycho in Hitchcock.
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