Alfred Hitchcock's directing style and techniques

Alfred Hitchcock Directing Style

In order for their movies to draw more audience and be more interesting, filmmakers know that they have to use scenes which captivate the viewers and make them identify themselves with the character in the movie. Alfred Hitchcock is a true classic when considering movies filled with sex, suspense, and humor, as there are little people that can claim they've been unmoved after having seen one of the director's movies.

Alfred Hitchcock had gotten involved in the filmmaking business in the first half of the twentieth century. From the start, his movies seemed to be different from the typical movies being produced during the period. Hitchcock broke all the rules which the movies of those times respected as he presented various deviant acts during his movies. Such movies were difficult to find an audience for the fact that people weren't accustomed with explicit sex, brutality, and gruesomeness.

The director took special care in making his audience drawn to the movie from its beginning to the end. During the broadcasting of Psycho, Hitchcock asked for the doors to the cinema to be closed for those that wanted to enter.

Psycho is a motion picture that had surely intimidated its audience. From the very start of movie, the viewers feel that they are being presented with a distorted image of an ordinary lunch. Marion and Sam have sex in their hotel room instead of finishing their food. This is a weird moment from the audience, as they consider that the movie is nothing of what they thought it would be. Scenes like that of Marion's look when she's got her back turned on Sam, have the viewer identify themselves with Marion's character, as they have a feeling of intimacy with her. Unlike Sam, Marion is more natural, and more likely to get the audience to sympathize her.