Is a famous director and filmmaker who worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. He left for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film, Rebecca, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho. Nicknamed the "Master of Suspense," for employing a kind of psychological suspense in his films, producing a distinct viewer experience , received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979. He died in 1980. Early life He was born in London, England, on August 13, 1899, and was raised by strict, Catholic parents. He described his childhood as lonely and sheltered, partly due to his obesity. As a fun fact , he once said that his mother would force him to stand at the foot of her bed for several hours as punishment (a scene alluded to in his film Psycho). This idea of being harshly treated or wrongfully accused would later be reflected in Hitchcock...
Last week, my group and I decided to see rear window, a really famous movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock so many years ago. Well, I have to say that actually I saw it before, when I was a little girl I remember seeing for the first time this murderer story on TV with my parents. Comparing every time I have watched the film, I finally consider that it is always going to be something I won't be able to catch, the feeling is similar if you observate a picture of the Baroque artist, Bosch. You could think you have seen every element of the composition perfectly and you´re surprised when you realized not. From my point of view, there's one essential of Hitchcock's films. Each of them owns their personalities and are impossible to compare or confuse with other ones. Rear window is and was a hit, to put in context. We are told in the movie the story of L.B ¨jeff¨(with stewart as the main character), a famous photographer who has an accident on his job. This is the reason why we ...