"The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of a few days. The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (in her screen debut), supported by Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du"
"The Birds (story) ""The Birds"" is a horror story by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection ""The Apple Tree"". It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in ""kamikaze"" fashion. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it becomes clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", released in 1963, the same year"
"Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 ""The Birds"", loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, which tells the tale of sudden attacks on people by violent flocks of birds. Ken Loach's admired 1969 ""Kes"", based on Barry Hines's 1968 novel ""A Kestrel for a Knave"", tells a story of a boy coming of age by training a kestrel. Parasitoids have inspired science fiction authors and screenwriters to create disgusting and terrifying parasitic alien species that kill their human hosts, such as in Ridley Scott's 1979 film ""Alien"". Plants too, both real and invented, play many roles in literature and"
"of ""The Birds"" was documented by the writer in his 1997 autobiography ""Me and Hitch"", which contains a variety of correspondence between the writer, director and Hitchcock's assistant, Peggy Robertson. Hunter began working on the screenplay in September 1961. He and Hitchcock developed the story, suggesting foundations such as the townspeople having a guilty secret to hide, and the birds an instrument of punishment. He suggested that the film begin using some elements borrowed from the screwball comedy genre then have it evolve into ""stark terror"". This appealed to Hitchcock, according to the writer, because it conformed to his love"
"novel into French and sent it to a publisher in Paris, who she learned was also Ms. du Maurier's [publisher] only after ""Rebecca"" became a worldwide success. The novels have identical plots and even some identical episodes."" Author Frank Baker believed that du Maurier had plagiarised his novel ""The Birds"" (1936) in her short story ""The Birds"" (1952). Du Maurier had been working as a reader for Baker's publisher Peter Davies at the time he submitted the book. When Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, based on du Maurier's story, Baker considered, but was advised against, pursuing costly litigation"
"Luis Borges' short story ""25th August, 1983"", ""Double Take""'s narrative plot is based on a fictional encounter Alfred Hitchcock has with an older version of himself. Whilst on set of his 1962 film ""The Birds"", Hitchcock calls a twelve-minute break in order to answer a phone call in one of the universal studio buildings. After a foreboding encounter with a security guard, Hitchcock finds his way into a room similar to the tearooms in both the Chasen's hotel in Los Angeles and the Claridge's hotel in London. Here, Hitchcock and his doppelgänger meet. The ensuing conversation between the two is"
"""Her writings on education ... are highly persuasive, just as some of her essays on the perils of regulating pornography and the puritanical excesses of the women's movement radiate a fierce common sense... Unfortunately, Ms. Paglia has a way of undermining her more interesting arguments with flip, hyperbolic declarations"". In 1998, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", the British Film Institute commissioned Paglia to write a book about the film. The book interprets the film as ""in the main line of British Romanticism descending from the raw nature-tableaux and sinister femme-fatales"
"the top 10 foreign films selected by the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. Hitchcock also received the Association's Director Award for the film. It also won the Horror Hall of Fame Award in 1991. ""The Birds"" received mixed reviews upon its initial release. Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" was positive, calling it ""a horror film that should raise the hackles on the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide."" Crowther was unsure whether the birds were meant to be an allegory because ""it isn't in Mr. Hitchcock's style to inject allegorical meanings or social significance in"
"titles inform the viewer that Hitchcock and Hedren never worked together again, and ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"" are considered his last classic films. ""The Girl"" is based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book, ""Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies"", which examines the relationships between Alfred Hitchcock and the female stars of his films. Spoto wrote that Hitchcock attempted to turn Tippi Hedren (star of ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"") into his perfect woman, choosing the clothes and lipstick he thought she should wear. Hedren told Spoto that Hitchcock fantasised about running off with her. Details of a film examining"
"The Short Night The Short Night was a film planned by British-American director Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). The project was originally announced in the late 1960s at the time of ""Topaz"" and Hitchcock scouted locations in Finland. A romantic suspense thriller with espionage elements, the script was based on both a same-titled novel by Ronald Kirkbride, and the non-fiction book documenting the case of real-life double agent George Blake titled ""The Springing of George Blake"" by Sean Bourke, the motion picture rights to both of which Hitchcock acquired. Hitchcock commissioned screenplays by James Costigan and frequent collaborator Ernest Lehman, both of"
"Norman Lloyd, Henry Bumstead and Robert F. Boyle actively involved. The Short Night The Short Night was a film planned by British-American director Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). The project was originally announced in the late 1960s at the time of ""Topaz"" and Hitchcock scouted locations in Finland. A romantic suspense thriller with espionage elements, the script was based on both a same-titled novel by Ronald Kirkbride, and the non-fiction book documenting the case of real-life double agent George Blake titled ""The Springing of George Blake"" by Sean Bourke, the motion picture rights to both of which Hitchcock acquired. Hitchcock commissioned screenplays"
"his autobiography ""I Follow but Myself"" Baker stated that it bore some resemblance to ""The Terror"" by Arthur Machen (first published 1917). When Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, ostensibly based on a short story ""The Birds"" (1952) by Daphne du Maurier, Baker considered pursuing litigation against Universal Studios. but eventually decided against doing so because legal counsel considered that the works were substantially different. The opinion states: ""The treatment of the general idea of attacks by birds in the two works is as different as it could be."" Du Maurier denied that she had taken the idea"
"birds; in 2009 the number was estimated to be closer to 40 per cage. On August 18, 1961, the ""Santa Cruz Sentinel"" reported that thousands of crazed sooty shearwaters were sighted on the shores of North Monterey Bay in California, regurgitating anchovies, flying into objects, and dying on the streets. The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller ""The Birds"", a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man. The film is now ranked among the American Film Institute's"
"for Best Director at the Academy Awards. Three years later he directed horror film ""The Birds"" starring Tippi Hedren. The following year he reunited with Hedren on the film ""Marnie"" which also starred Sean Connery. In recognition of his career, Hitchcock garnered the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Fellowship Award, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. He received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to acknowledge his film and television achievements. In"
"Kim Novak (who starred in one of Hitchcock's films) and Nora Brown (widow of one of Hitchcock's close friends) disputed the film's version of events. The film is a partially fictionalised account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. In 1961, Hitchcock notices Hedren in a television commercial for a diet drink. He wants to turn her into the next Grace Kelly, with whom he had worked extensively during the 1950s. Hedren passes her screen test and is groomed for the starring role in Hitchcock's latest film, ""The Birds""; the director instructs her about her dress and appearance."
"actress he brought from relative obscurity to star in his 1963 film ""The Birds"". Hitchcock becomes infatuated with his leading lady; when she rebuffs his advances, he subjects her to a series of traumatic experiences during the filming of ""The Birds"". Hitchcock's obsession with Hedren continues when she stars in his next production, ""Marnie"". Hedren grows increasingly uncomfortable with his attentions, and decides that she needs to escape the situation. However, she cannot work elsewhere because of her exclusive contract with Hitchcock; this effectively ends her Hollywood career. ""The Girl"" made its television debut in the United States on 20"
"by a jury of ten. The 1968 Polish motion picture ""Matthew's Days"" by Witold Leszczyński was based on the novel. The Birds (novel) The Birds, original Nynorsk title Fuglane, is a novel by Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas. It was first released in 1957, and has been translated into several languages, including English. The story revolves around the inner world of Matthew, who is mentally challenged and lives with his sister. Being regarded as one of Vesaas' most important novels, it was included in the major Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag's 30 picks for ""Norway's national literature"" both in 1967 and"
"York when Hitchcock saw her, in October 1961, in an NBC television ad for Sego, a diet drink: ""I signed her because she is a classic beauty. Movies don't have them any more. Grace Kelly was the last."" He insisted, without explanation, that her first name be written in single quotation marks: 'Tippi'. In ""The Birds"", Melanie Daniels, a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a bird shop; Jessica Tandy plays his possessive mother. Hedren visits him in Bodega Bay (where ""The Birds"" was filmed) carrying a pair of lovebirds as a gift. Suddenly waves of birds"
"The Birds II: Land's End The Birds II: Land's End is a 1994 American made-for-television horror film and a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic ""The Birds"" (1963) starring Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, James Naughton and Tippi Hedren in a minor role different from the one she played in the original Hitchcock film. The original music score was composed by Ron Ramin. ""The Birds II: Land's End"" premiered on Showtime on March 14, 1994. The plot of the sequel is very similar to the original. Biology teacher and Somali Civil War veteran, Ted, his wife, and children move to a summer"
"was also inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film ""The Birds."" ""The Birds"" starred actress Tippi Hedren, who appeared in Nguyen's earlier film ""Julie and Jack."" ""Birdemic"" includes footage of that appearance, playing on a television. The movie contains several anti-war statements. On the DVD commentary, the director explained that one early inspiration for the movie was the anti-war movie ""Apocalypse Now"", and that at the end of the movie the birds stopped their attack because they wanted to have peace, and to give humans a second chance to help the environment. He said that as production continued, he became more"
"names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier was loosely based on that of the actor Gerald du Maurier, who was a friend of Hitchcock. Hitchcock later adapted three novels written by du Maurier's daughter Daphne du Maurier: ""Jamaica Inn"", ""Rebecca"" and ""The Birds"". Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the film as a man walking past the murder victim's house. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead. The German language version of the film, ""Mary"", was shot simultaneously on the same set with German speaking actors. Miles Mander reprised"
"the early 1800s, the Reverend Edward Hitchcock came across a set of what appeared to him to be giant bird tracks. These later turned out to be reptile tracks, however they nonetheless inspired him to write a poem entitled ""The Sandstone Bird"" involving the reanimation of a great sandstone bird by a female mystic. Later published in ""The Knickerbocker"" by Hitchcock, under the pseudonym Poetaster, this is widely believed to have been the first ichnological poem. Eric Kaufman, a professor of politics commented in his paper on ""American Naturalistic Nationalism"" that the ""naturalistic aesthetic first took root among writers in"
"He calls the police to collect the reward for capturing the kidnappers and finding the jewels. A smiling Blanche looks at the camera and winks. The film was adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman, based on Victor Canning's 1972 novel ""The Rainbird Pattern"". Lehman wanted the film to be sweeping, dark, and dramatic but Hitchcock kept pushing him toward lightness and comedy. Lehman's screenplay earned him a 1977 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The novel on which the film is based had earlier been rejected by Lehman, to whom it had been submitted as a potential"
"and was asked by Hitchcock to play the leading role in his upcoming film ""The Birds"". ""I was so stunned. It never occurred to me that I would be given a leading role in a major motion picture. I had great big tears in my eyes"", Hedren later recalled. ""The Birds"" (1963) was Hedren's screen debut. Hitchcock became her drama coach, and gave her an education in film-making as she attended many of the production meetings such as script, music or photography conferences. Hedren said, ""I probably learned in three years what it would have taken me 15 years to"
"expect: McBain novels had a consistent writing style, while Hunter novels were more varied. Under the Hunter name, novels steadily appeared throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, including ""Come Winter"" (1973) and ""Lizzie"" (1984). Hunter was also successful as screenwriter for film and television. He wrote the screenplay for the Hitchcock film ""The Birds"" (1963), loosely adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1952 novelette. In the process of adapting Winston Graham's novel ""Marnie"" (1961) for Hitchcock, Hunter and the director disagreed on the rape scene, and the writer was sacked. Hunter's other screenplays included ""Strangers When We Meet"" (1960),"
"Donald Spoto Donald Spoto (born June 28, 1941) is an American biographer and theologian. He is mostly known for his best-selling biographies of film and theatre celebrities. Spoto has written 25 books, including biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Alan Bates. The BBC/HBO television film ""The Girl"" (2012), about Tippi Hedren's experience during the filming of ""The Birds"" (1963), was based in part on Spoto's work on Hitchcock. Spoto has also written biographical accounts of the House of Windsor from the Victorian era"
"I didn't want it to be taken advantage of, twisted, turned and made into an even uglier situation than it was"". According to Spoto's book, Hitchcock brought in two members of his crew during the filming of ""The Birds"" and asked them to keep careful watch on the activities of Hedren, ""when she left the set - where she went, who she visited, how she spent her free time"". He then advised her on what she should eat, whom she should see, and how she should live. He told the cast and crew they were not allowed to talk to"
"""Peeping Tom"" (1960) by Michael Powell, is a progenitor of the contemporary ""slasher film"", though Alfred Hitchcock cemented the subgenre with ""Psycho"" released also in the same year. Hitchcock, considered to be the ""Master of Suspense"" didn't set out to frighten fans the way many other traditional horror filmmakers do. Instead, he helped pioneer the art of psychological suspense. As a result, he managed to frighten his viewers by getting to the root of their deepest fears. One of his most frightening films besides ""Psycho"" is ""The Birds"" (1963), where a seemingly idyllic town is overrun by violent birds. France"
"of combat with harrowing poetry. At once a freshly imagined bildungsroman and a metaphysical parable about the loss of innocence and the uses of memory."" The National Book Award citation describes ""The Yellow Birds"" as: ""Poetic, precise, and moving, ""The Yellow Birds"" is a work of fiercest principle, honoring loss while at the same time indicting the pieties of war...An urgent, vital, beautiful novel that reminds us through its scrupulous honesty how rarely its anguished truths are told."" The book was adapted on screen in 2017, ""The Yellow Birds"" was directed by ""Alexandre Moors"" and starred Jack Huston, Alden Ehrenreich,"
"Henreid. It aired in April 1957. Later in 1959, Hitchcocks production company called on Hunter to adapt a story called ""Appointment at Eleven"", originally written by Robert Turner. After its initial screening Hunter and Hitchcock met for the first time. Two years later in September 1961, Hitchcock asked Hunter to write the screenplay for ""The Birds"". The remainder of the book details not only their working relationship, but also the friendship that developed as well as the mutual respect they had for one another. Me and Hitch Me and Hitch is a 1997 book that chronicles the relationship between writer"
"as the storyteller in his films through his cameos), suggests a similar doubling of Rixard Nixon and the young John F. Kennedy during the first televised presidential debates, the same Kennedy who finds his match in Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and finally Khrushchev versus Leonid Brezhnev just as Brezhnev is plotting Khrushchev's downfall. The paranoia in Hitchcock's work becomes an allegory for the kind of fear that became so normal during the Cold War. Echoes of and excerpts from Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) propose the film as an allegory for television - which has, according to Hitchcock, ""brought"
"preservation by the United States National Film Registry: ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), ""Psycho"" (1960), and ""The Birds"" (1963). In 2012 Hitchcock was selected by artist Sir Peter Blake, author of the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" album cover, to appear in a new version of the cover, along with other British cultural figures, and he was featured that year in a BBC Radio 4 series, ""The New Elizabethans"", as someone ""whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in"
"a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"" (1963) was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity, but when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a precredits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal. Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. Following the credits, the police investigate her death. One officer discovers that the red substance with which she is covered is not blood, but tomato juice. A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occurs"