Hitchcockian
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Hitchcockian is a general term used to describe film styles and themes similar to those of Alfred Hitchcock's films. Elements considered Hitchcockian include:
- The cool blonde (often a central figure of Hitchcock's films).
- An innocent man accused (again used in many of Hitchcock's films).
- Often in his films, characters switch sides or cannot be trusted.
- Tension building through suspense to the point where the audience enjoys seeing the character in a life-threatening situation, such as the windmill scene from Foreign Correspondent or the crop-duster plane sequence from North by Northwest.
- Characters generally get out of sticky situations by using their wits, rather than just shooting the place up.
- Average people thrust into strange or dangerous situations, such as in North by Northwest or The Man Who Knew Too Much.
- Bumbling or incompetent authority figures, particularly policemen.
- Mistaken identity, such as in North by Northwest.
Some films or scenes considered Hitchockian, besides Hitchcock's own films, include:
- Dressed to Kill
- Blow Out
- Munich - particularly the phone-bomb scene.
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- [1]- Entertainment Weekly's EW.com feature: What, exactly, makes a film "Hitchcockian?"