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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