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The Birds (Hitchcock)
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Anyone seen this? Would be interested to hear your thoughts on it!
I watched it for the first time and really enjoyed it, except the end seemed a little anti-climatic. I felt like it was building up to something, an explanation as to why the birds attacked the town but it never came. I thought it might have something to do with the lovebirds or even Melanie but it seems the birds went crazy for no apparent reason.
But I guess the ambiguous ending also adds an air of mystery to it. What are your thoughts on it? Would you rate it as one of Hitchcock's best?
I watched it for the first time and really enjoyed it, except the end seemed a little anti-climatic. I felt like it was building up to something, an explanation as to why the birds attacked the town but it never came. I thought it might have something to do with the lovebirds or even Melanie but it seems the birds went crazy for no apparent reason.
But I guess the ambiguous ending also adds an air of mystery to it. What are your thoughts on it? Would you rate it as one of Hitchcock's best?
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The movie is trying to tell you that humans should not take their existence for granted.
I bet it will look real good.
From IMDB:
It is said that Hitchcock wanted to end the movie with the car arriving in San Francisco, only to find the Golden Gate Bridge covered with birds, giving the foreboding impression that the attacks were not over. However, due to the logistics of filming such a scene, it was never shot. In another ending that was written but never shot, the car slowly drives through Bodega Bay, and the group sees people who have fallen victim to the birds. The birds do not attack, however, until Mitch sees a clear stretch of road ahead and accelerates. The birds then begin to attack the car, but they manage to make it out of the Bay.
Guess we know what to expect from a remake or a sequel then *Shudders*
However IMO I believe the birds are a metaphor for Lydia's life being torn apart by the much younger, more beautiful and more popular Melanie who has intruded her home and taken her way her only son, even Cathy idolises her - this is emphasized when Melanie is attacked by the birds in the bedroom
I think the ending is supposed to be confusing but I think when Mitch takes the lead and tries to drive them to safety, Lydia realises Melanie is a permanent fixture that's why there is no foreseeable ending to the birds
That's just my theory anyway!
When I watch movies like this I do wonder things like why didn't the townsfolk just grab some swimming goggles and tennis rackets and go apeshit on the birds.
Du Maurier hated Hitchcocks version apparently. If you read the story its full of menace, the cornish landscape being a large part of that, I dont think you feel that same sence of menace and impending doom in the film. If I had never read the book I would like the movie more maybe. Prefer Hitchcocks other works though.
i think the idea is to symbolise "the forces of nature" taking over, and how fragile human civilisation is. u could for example see the birds as nazis having abandoned reason and behaving as animals ......
The films iconic sequences(the dead farmer with his eyes pecked out and the bird attack on Tippi) really make are what the film.
The special effects still look pretty good for the modern age.
I suppose what could count against it was that it didn't seem to add up too much. What were the birds attacking for? I suppose there was the whole 'mother nature can bite back' message in there, but the film does feel curious.
I've not seen the trailer, but i was under the impression that it's never explained at all
I'ts been a while, can anyone else confirm or otherwise?
There already was a sequel:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109275/
Though the Alan Smithee name should give you an idea how good/bad it is.
Well, nothing is gonna explain it all!
The trailer just might give you some ideas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjaVdJt59U