The Birds Delivers a Perfect Horror Dimension
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| The Birds (1963) |
Details
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Daphne Du Maurier (story), Evan Hunter (screenplay)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Runtime: 119 minutes
As The Birds is an avian horror story based on Daphne Du Maurier's book with the same name, this is indeed the essential Hitchcock's art. Is a must to have this one as your horror collection. What I like about this film is that although it doesn't have any marvelous special effects just like now, the tension of horror is perfectly made. None of the birds' attacks look absurd and laughable! This film serves the best with a picturesque story.
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| Tippi Hedren is the perfect choice! |
Starring Rod Taylor and introducing Tippi Hedren, this film provides best performances almost from all casts. Specially for Ms. Hedren, she's truly a fascinating personality. Hedren portrayed her character Melanie Daniels wonderful, she absolutely shows her best and actually made a love-able performance. With the story about a wealthy San Francisco socialite (Hedren) pursues a potential man (Taylor) to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when all kind of birds suddenly attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness, this horror classic totally works. I love the story, it gives a kind of different terror. Hitchcock successfully made the birds as one of the most creepy horror terrorist. Seemed all birds look to be unreal, obviously. But, they do look more ruthless than the crows in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) which actually imitating the idea of this film. Besides horror, there are certainly humors and dramas in this film. Here, I think those things are treated very well, all humors look funny, so with the dramas. All just perfectly connected to the horror, no peculiar things revealed. I really love how special is Tippi Hedren. Melanie Daniels look so graceful in her charming appearance and speaking! I think Hedren dominates this film majestically.
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| Hordes of crows |
About the birds, even without superb effects, they look as bad as the film wants to show about. Up till now, the birds can't remove the fright whenever I watch this film. It's one true thing about this film that it shows the deaths of the birds' victims. No more words, those death scenes totally work just perfect. After that, clearly there's always a perfect ending for Hitchcock's greatest films and this is the one.
Each movie, I suppose, always has its best scene. This film has its own, with the ending of the almost killed Melanie. Shortly, Melanie trapped in a room then it was poor thing she was to late to know that the birds are in the room and all ready to attack her. This is definitely what I like about this film. I like how the birds attacked Melanie and how Melanie responded to their attacking. Everything seems to be perfect, notably in this scene. Hedren downright took all attention in this film, she portrayed her character gracefully!
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| Breathtaking moment! |
Surely, this film is one true thing about being iconic. Hitchcock successfully direct this film in the perfect angle. Tippi Hedren successfully took everyone's heart because of her classic and graceful performance. The birds made a miraculous success for being ruthless and powerful than human beings. There are probably just too little bad factors in this film, but the splendor covers the badness! As a conclusion, watching this such spectacular film is all about being scared, thrilled, and fascinated. You'll certainly feel the endless fun to watch it hundreds time. The Birds is an eerily yet so conscientious art which mingles an instant classic.
Rating: A+
