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THE BIRDS - VLOG REVIEW

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I talk a bit about Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds .

THE BIRDS - REVIEW

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With Michael Bay thinking of producing a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Daphne Du Maurier adaptation of The Birds , there's no better time to go back and watch the original then confirm how good it is and how a remake of it would be not only completely unnecessary but just silly. About as silly as The Birds II: Land's End ... The film sees Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren in her iconic screen debut) make a mischievous attempt to play an elaborate prank on a guy she clearly secretly likes only to find that the small town she's travelled to is about to be attacked by seemingly random waves of killer birds. Daniels and Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) first meet in a bird shop, out of which Hitchcock himself walks with his dogs in his obligatory cameo, and the former soon starts using her connections to find out where the guy lives before driving off to Bodega Bay so fast, the love birds she's bringing him pivot in their cage with every turn. One of the film's

MARNIE - REVIEW

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Alfred Hitchcock decided to torture Tippi Hedren again soon after The Birds with this little psychological thriller from 1964 also starring Sean Connery. The film sees Hedren play Marnie , a thief who changes her identity for every heist. When she is finally caught by Connery's suave publishing company owner, the film takes a weird turn as he decides to tackle her deeply rooted psychological problems himself and help her resolve them. Armed with a brilliantly erratic score by maestro Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Hitchcock puts these two characters, who could not be more different, together and lets us sit there uncomfortably as both of them reveal darker, somewhat unsettling sides to themselves. Hedren is at her best here, displaying a nervous bitterness which comes out in short, yet significant bursts. Meanwhile, Connery oozes with charisma but, throughout the film, his character reveals something of a controlling, fetishist side to him as he literally forces Marnie into marryin