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     众所周知，看任何一部希区柯克电影，必须关心的两件事：希区柯克女郎和胖子自己如何亮相。

     希区柯克女郎，是对于希区柯克女性审美的直观体现——雍容、古典、端庄。Joan Fontaine琼·芳登、 Ingrid Bergman英格丽·褒曼、Grace Kelly格蕾丝·凯利，以希区柯克女郎的身份获得大众追捧的她们无疑是金字塔顶尖的女人！如果说Prada、LV、Ferragamo是时尚对于品味的终极认可，那么希区柯克女郎则是人类对于女性的终极崇拜！并且私以为，三位女性中最成功的希区柯克女郎，并非与胖子合作最多的Ingrid Bergman，而是Grace Kelly！Ingrid Bergman和胖子合作的时候，常常告诉他无法诠释他所追求的那种性格特质——"I don't feel like that, I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion."而胖子的回答只有两个字——"Ingrid - fake it!"所以Ingrid在希区柯克电影里总也有身不由己的片刻。反之，Grace Kelly则在希区柯克的镜头里展示了她不为人知的感性一面：可爱、热情、勇敢，以至于她穿着蕾丝蓬蓬裙翻越围墙，冒着生命危险溜进凶手家的一幕让我记忆深刻，忍俊不禁。她的高贵和诙谐，只在希区柯克的世界里挥洒自如。当她成为摩洛哥王妃，为现实中的灰姑娘童话添上一个完美句号的时候，希区柯克的影迷们却从此失去了他们的最佳女主角……

     希区柯克本人或多或少在影片里投射了Freud Sigmund弗洛伊德的“伤痕论”。其中最为典型的就是《Spellbound爱德华医生》，开宗明义地提起了弗洛伊德的大名。不过最耐人寻味的或许还是《Psycho精神病患者》里那个有恋母情结的变态杀手。希区柯克的童年并不快乐，甚至一些孩提时的悲惨经历成为他一生挥之不去的阴霾。比如他坦露过，小时候因为淘气，家长让他拿着一张纸条去警察局。他把纸条交给警察，警察便按照纸条上的要求，将他关进监狱，5分钟后才释放他。我难以想象一个天才的孩子如何捱过那样的黑色5分钟……或许，弗洛伊德是被希区柯克认可的一个知音，在弗洛伊德的精神分析论里，希区柯克为自己的古怪和天才找到令自己信服的解释吧！毕竟，作为观众的我们，只能透过银幕来揣测这个天才导演的内心独白。

     电影人与众影迷之间总有一个永远无法停止的争论：艺术高度与票房收获的取舍。然而这个敏感又棘手的问题在希区柯克看来，根本不成问题！——"Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them." 没有任何一个苛刻的影评家指责希区柯克缺乏内涵，因为胖子用精妙的悬念堵住了大家的嘴；没有任何一个以艺术性见长的导演批评希区柯克缺乏艺术，因为胖子最懂得如何完美使用每一个电影元素来为他的作品加分；没有任何一个票房屡屡飘红的导演敢对希区柯克叫板，因为即使胖子已经离开，他的作品还是被奉为收藏珍品！不论之前，还是之后，很难找出另一个能够在艺术和票房上取得如此平衡的电影人了……所以希区柯克是可亲随和的，他乐于取悦大众，娱乐大众——但必须以他的方式，严格固执的。

     的确，每一部希区柯克电影都值得一看。也许看第二遍的时候，悬念的引力已经不如先前，但是依然有许多值得大家了解的希区柯克价值观。

     1980年的4月29日，这个天才，这个胖子，把最大的悬念永远抛给了后来的我们……

Date of Birth

13 August 1899, Leytonstone, London, England, UK 

Date of Death

29 April 1980, Bel Air, California, USA (renal failure)

Nickname

Hitch
The Master of Suspense

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Biography

He was born Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, his father was a green grocer called William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914), his mother was Emma Jane Whelan (1863 - 1942) and he had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (Born 1890) and Eileen Hitchcock(born 1892). He grew up in a very strict Roman Catholic family. He attended St Ignatius college and a school for engineering and navigation. In 1914, when Hitchcock was 15 years old, his father died.
It was around 1920 when Hitchcock joined the film industry, he started off drawing the sets (Since he was a very skilled artist) and he met Alma Reville, though they never really spoke to each other. It was only when the director for "Always tell your wife" fell ill and Hitchcock had to complete the film, that he started off in the directing part of the film world, then Alma Reville and Hitchcock began to talk to each other.
Hitchcock had his first shot of being the director of a film in 1923 when he was to direct the film "The Number 13", though the production was stopped. Hitchcock didn't give up then. He directed a film called "The Pleasure Garden" in 1925, a British/German production, which was very popular. In 1926, Hitchcock made his first notable film, "The Lodger". In the same year on the 2nd of December, Hitchcock married Alma Reville. They had one child called Patricia Hitchcock (born 7th July 1928).
His success followed when he made a number of films in Britain such as "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and Jamaica Inn (1939), some of them which also made him famous in the USA. David O. Selznick, an American producer at the time, got in touch with Hitchcock and the Hitchcock family moved to the USA to direct an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1940).
It was when Saboteur (1942) was made, that films companies began to call his films after him; such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
During the making of Frenzy (1972), Hithcock's wife Alma suffered a paralyzing stroke which made her unable to walk.
On March 7, 1979, Hitchcock was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, where he said this famous quote: "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville." By this time, he was quite ill, he had angina and his kidneys had already started to have problems functioning properly.
He retired soon after making Family Plot (1976), he started to write a screenplay with Ernest Lehman called "The Short Night" then later David Freeman who completed the script. Though due to Hitchcock's failing health the film was never made. Freeman published the script after Hitchcock's death.
In late 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. On the 29th April 1980, 9:17AM, he died peacefully in his sleep due to renal failure. His funeral was held in the Church of Good Shepheard in Beverly Hills. Father Thomas Sullivan held the service, 600 people attended the service, among them where Mel Brooks (Director of High Anxeity (1977), a comedy tribute to Hitchcock and his films), Louis Jourdan, Karl Malden, Tippi Hedren, Janet Leigh and Francois Truffaut.

Personal Quotes

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

There is a dreadful story that I hate actors. Imagine anyone hating Jimmy Stewart . . . Jack L. Warner. I can't imagine how such a rumor began. Of course it may possibly be because I was once quoted as saying that actors are cattle. My actor friends know I would never be capable of such a thoughtless, rude and unfeeling remark, that I would never call them cattle . . . What I probably said was that actors should be treated like cattle.（句中提到的rumor，居然被国内许多电视台信以为真……那么天才的一个人，怎么可能会犯那么低级的错误？！……只想对国内一些电视制作人说：没有知识，要有常识；没有常识，至少要懂得掩饰！）

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake.（虽然不如第一句那么有名，但却是我最喜欢的一句！）

There is nothing quite so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.（胖子最后死于肾衰竭……）