Sorry for my English. Your point is more or less true... The Zeit of the script and the general concepts of the personages admit the existence of some kind of explanation and simultaneously the protagonists assume the existence of some degree of mystery together with their radical ignorance about the stuff (say, "aggressive group of multi species birds"). Old and good films admit doubt and their casts deeply admit the verisimilitude of their roles and actions. Old films talk about reality -- they don't rely on the pseudo reality of artificial graphics and pre programmed games of life, they are not simulations in a simulation. For instance, that old American ornithologist (a lady) proclaims the supposed impossibility of such strain of birds (the seagulls) behavior but 40 minutes later she was totally pale and confined in a room of Tides Restaurant (If I remember well) in a typical scene extracted from the (theatrical) mute realist cinema of German and Russian silent films (Eisenstein, Lang films) and so she needs a deep explanation to understand not the birds but herself and her errors about what reality really is !! It is impressive because it shows us that people in some moment in time are themselves only because that same people believe the universe supposedly is a well known whole (including me, a bit part of that whole). This is a master piece of cinema located in the true Bodega Bay, 1962. Hollywood (Oscar) even in the glorious Past was an imbecile creation -- Hitchcock never received an Oscar as a director. Brasil (Yes... Brasil)

I totally agree! It contributed to the horror.

@@KRYPTOS_K5 well said! Great interpretation

2 yrs late to the conversation, but I totally agree. Same thing with the 1960's The Haunting versus its remake in the 1990s. As for Hitchcock's movies like The Birds, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, etc, something about them give a nostalgic feel about 1950's-1960's SF/NoCal, NYC, the Pacific Northwest. Although those movies are very mannered in a soundstage sort of way, I miss that in today's era of overly slick CGI & hip, no-mystique realism. Unless the property burned down or was bulldozed, I wonder why Michael didn't show where Mitch Brenner's house is? I doubt it was instead on Universal's backlot & must have really existed in Bodega Bay. As for the scenes in the small restaurant & of the town, they gave a friendly, relatable vibe to NoCal---psycho birds notwithstanding. lol

True!

I just watched this movie again last evening, then found this video..... Incredibly interesting !!! Thank you.

I thought it was great

Lol hilarious

Right?! I LOLd! 😆

hilarious

Omg I'm crying, lmfao

Agreed!

YES..!!!. lol That gave me nightmares for YEARS.. and his PJ's all ripped up.. I think I was about 10 when I saw it first The Birds..

😆😆😆

@@djx64, even today I prefer to skip that scene. Think I was somewhere around the same age 10 or so when I first saw it.

Same here, I was a kid when I saw that… and that scene freaked me out a lot. The fact that there was no music during this scene, made it feel so real. Plus Hitchcock used things that made us feel safe. He was found dead, killed by birds, inside of his home, with a pajamas on.

@@tsnovak20 LOL

Kathleen Kennedy takes that quote very seriously.

Love all his movies

True

@Candi She never quoted that. It's my salty response to Kathleen Kennedy's disregard for the original Star Wars fandom, the canon, and George Lucas. She seems to take delight in making us (the audience) suffer by slowly destroying our heroes and our beloved franchise on the Big Screen.

Neil Breen took those words to heart.

Thank you for this piece of Hitchcock lore. I didn't know why they whistled then; I always thought it was to get my attention.

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I didn't know that. I always learn something new about this film.

He liked to make cameos in his movies and other shows. I saw him get off a stage coach that had just arrived in Dodge City at the beginning of a “Gunsmoke” episode. Didn’t say a word, just got off the stage as a passenger and walked by the camera into town, not to be seen again in that episode.

He was walking his dogs. (Jan Griffiths).

He is known for doing a cameo. Quentin Tarantino does it too in his movies. Very Cool.

The best one was Lifeboat. Guess how? A newspaper floated by & his photo was on it. Genius

He said one time that his fans expect a cameo from him, so he likes to do it towards the beginning of his films to "get it out of the way" and the audience can focus on the story.

Yeah that was funny

Hollywood prop birds

Alfred Hitchcock's sense of humor the same as you see Alfred walking out of the pet shop at the start with his two dogs.

You tell such a lovely story. Thank you for sharing.

Omg. Did u see that 800 birds entered some guys chimney about a month ago in Torrance,Ca?! Reminded me of The Birds. It was crazy

@@larav6505 yeah I saw that on the news. That was insane. It was like a scene right out of the birds

Mine is "North by northwest".... I love Eva Marie Saint ... I love the house never built but so glam on the top of the creek I love Cary Grant i love this atmosphere so chic .. so american...

I saw it with my parents too, and my aunt and uncle and same age cousin. We were both 7. Scared the crap out of us. Saw it again on TV when I was around 12 or 13. I was old enough to appreciate it then, and it's still a favorite of mine. (Jan Griffiths).

@@douglasgriffiths3534and Jan. I agree. Favorite of mine too. HItchcock's movies had very little computer stuff. The story is what scared the crap out of us all. I sent the link to the trailer and this filming location to my daughter (who never saw the movie but read the book). Man, Alfred Hitchcock was the master of horror.

They are grandparents now. Veronica Cartwright is the young sandy haired girl. She went to star in the first Alien movie and is a sister to Angela Cartwright who was in “Lost in Space”.

Well, here is one of them! I was in the birthday party scene and also in the schoolhouse and running down the street. Wow! Do I have stories! I think my memories are on KZfaq somewhere. I did a video interview.

@@morganbrittany3962 how cool is that! I remember you of course from Dallas when tv shows were pretty fun and cliffhangers were expected thanks!

@copy pasta What a silly comment! Of course they can share their experiences ! The Birds was not a porno movie!!

Have you done videos of the 1956 and 1978 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? That would be something to see.

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Thank you Peg, this means a lot

@@grimmlifecollective No problem. I find myself watching your videos even if I hadn't seen the original movie.LOL

Adam the woo / the daily woo and Sean Clark aka Malfuncsean of Horror’s Hallowed Grounds also go into great detail. I recommend them.

@@grimmlifecollective This is the one movie I could never finish cause of the old man with his eyes pecked out under the window sill, he reminded me of my great grandfather who died a few years before I saw this movie and I had to leave the classroom.

Don't remind me. I was born in '63.

Very expensive. There are several other restaurants up Highway One.

It's okay... but not one bit like the greasy spoon in the movie.

Correct. The playground was to the left of the school.

I didn't know that... So cool!

@@anneholden9908 yep lil HOLLYWOOD triva facts lol

@@natalieangelo54 think it was the other way around. Named her character after her daughter.

@@kalallenxx43 yes, her daughter was born in 1957, and the film was 1963.

My mom liked the name Melanie from this movie and Gone with the Wind. So she named me Melanie. 🙂

That 3 step zoom was done in Frankenstein in 1931 and my scariest scene in Exorcist 3 with the grim reaper in a mental hospital. I remember crying and screaming maybe because I worked in a forensic state hospital that was haunted.

Agree

More Hitchcock is coming

North by Northwest is my all time favorite Hitchcock movie. Hope they do an on location for it too.

My moms to I love it too.😊✌

Deke, why's that, you can't watch this movie?

@@staceyking7911 it was my mother's favorite movie I can't watch it no more cos memories

Is that you Mike Pence?

I like this movie, way far better than The Exorcist, which literally scared the hell out of me, and I do not want to ever see it again, especially because a scene depicted a oijua board which I am VERY DEATHLY SCARED OF! 😱 Speaking of oijua boards, I had a peculiarly scary dream @ a new neighbor who had just moved in nextdoor to me borrowing one of those freaky things from some close relative of theirs. In this dream, when these new "weirdo" neighbors leaned the board up against their door, it just all of a sudden slammed against the ground in the hallway and split perfectly into two after I stepped out my door, followed by light grey smoke eerily smouldering from the broken pieces as I stood just frozen in a trance-like state in fear

It is true. They made a movie about it. Tried to ruin her career. I think Sienna Miller played her & Toby Jones played Hitch. Btw, the school house is haunted 👻 saw it on that old show Sightings!

@@samanthab1923 Thanks for the info I'd like to see that! Yep he tried to ruin her career, wow... I remember " Sightings" lol now you can't get in unfortunately maybe after covid? IDK

it is True, she said it in a interview, google it and you can also see the interview of her saying that Alfred Hitchcock use to give Melanie her kid Dolls so he can get the Mother, real Horney son of a Bitch!!!!!!

Ironically, Tippi's characters name is Melanie.

Yes yr right I read that Hitchcock was obsessed with Tipi too, he had a hidden room made somewhere apparently where he used to force Tipi to meet him, poor girl !! She was not interested at all !! Today that would be called sexual harrasment..how awful !

It scared me too at the age of 7 when I saw it with my parents and aunt , uncle, and 7 year old cousin. He was scared too. (Jan Griffiths).

Worth the watch ~ still a great movie!

As of this date (July 2022) there is a house right on Taylor Street where the kids run down, little 2 bedroom, 1 bath place, no yard, listed for $900,000.

Thank you Peter. Happy you enjoyed it

Yep! He was a monster to her. Tippi was a guest celebrity on an event I was working on and I got to go to her amazing home in Shambala, which is a wild animal preserve. (This is where I asked to be involved in our event). She told us of several incidents where Hitchcock abused her and eventually ruined her career because she didn't succumb to his advances.

@@wendyhoag9637 Shambala is where Tippi and her husband Noel Marshall shot “Roar”, isn’t it? Talk about a wild and borderline abusive film shoot! 😳

@@wendyhoag9637 oh wow really never heard that story