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Post by mstreepsucks on Apr 23, 2020 19:54:26 GMT
Apparantly in a recent interview with joe rogan. Bill maher says, Alfred Hitchcock made 3 different versions of the man who knew too much. Lol.
Also , he said it's a good thing they don't make movies like that anymore. I say wow, ya imagine what kind of a world we would be living in...if they still made films like that today. Don't get me wrong, I don't like either version that much. I just figured it was worth pointing out.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 23, 2020 22:17:55 GMT
Maher can often be vague and offhand. Hitchcock did indeed do a film called The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956, and it was a story he'd done once before; a bona fide remake, in fact, of a 1934 film of the same title. And although Maher got the principal players right (James Stewart and Doris Day), the story isn't at all as he described it: "The innocent guy who's being chased by somebody and he doesn't know why they're chasing him, and the police are after him but he's gotta find the bad guy before the police find him." That sadly illustrates that he wasn't paying the least bit of attention.
The theme of a wrongly accused (or suspected) man on the run was clearly Hitchcock's favorite premise. It's one he employed a dozen times in his films, but TMWKTM was not one of them. As it happens, he released another film that same year called The Wrong Man that revisited the theme. The other variations on it were The Lodger, The 39 Steps, Young and Innocent (released in England as The Girl Was Young), Saboteur, Spellbound, Stage Fright, Strangers On A Train, I Confess, To Catch A Thief, North By Northwest and Frenzy.
Maher cited films like Salt and the Bourne thrillers as ones that "took what Hitchcock was doing and...revved it up, and I'm glad they did. Hitchcock's hard to get through." To be fair to Maher, he did describe his own "ADD" tendencies and admitted that he and audiences now have shorter attention spans, but as glad as he is that they "revved it up," I'm equally glad for film makers like Hitchcock who knew something about pacing, rhythm and building to high points, and didn't need to design their films for viewers who lost interest if there wasn't an action sequence every ten minutes. Maher can have the Bournes and Salts and whatever; they bore me silly.
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 24, 2020 19:15:37 GMT
I realize there were terrible movies made since the advent of cinema, but I would have to say that I typically enjoy films from the 1930's to 1970's much more mainly because of the pacing and the characterizations are just plain better than nowadays. The Bourne films were fine for a one time viewing but I'll never see them again. However, I constantly revisit the classics. Particularly Hitchcock. I'm probably in the minority though, and this is mainly because Stewart is one of my favorite actors, but I actually prefer the "remake" slightly to the 1934 film.
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