Alfred+Hitchcock

=Alfred Hitchcock=

Overview
Alfred Hitchcock is recognized by the suspenseful style of movies he directed. The future rotund icon was born in Leytonstone, England on August 3, 1899. At five years of age, his father, a poultry and produce vendor, sent him to the police to get locked in a jail cell for 5 minutes for being naughty; he grew to fear crime and punishment. Physical beatings on the hands while he attended St. Ignatius College were another reason he feared punishment. As a young man, Hitchcock worked only shortly with a cable company before invariably diving into the film industry. In 1920, he was hired to create the title cards for silent movies in London for Paramount. A couple years later, he began directing his first film, however, it was never completed. His true first movie was "The Pleasure Garden", debuting in 1925. Through the 1930s, he kept producing British cinema like "Murder!", "The 39 Steps", and "The Lady Vanishes".

Central Issue
Around the turn of 1940, Hitchcock was coxed into moving to Hollywood, which possessed the most advanced film-making technology. His efforts in America were quickly rewarded; he won an Oscar for best film of 1940 for his production "Rebecca". For the next 36 year, Hitchcock constructed many thriller masterpieces such as "Spellbound", "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "North by Northwest", "Psycho", and "The Birds". Critics charged his films as being overly cynical, but nevertheless, the public enjoyed his works. In 1967, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Besides developing movies, Hitchcock also wrote the segment over production in respects to movie making for Encyclopedia Britannica and hosted two television shows: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Alfred Hitchcock Hour". Queen Elizabeth II knighted Hitchcock in his old age although he was no longer a British citizen, but rather an American citizen. His directing career ended with "Family Plot", shown in 1976.

Conclusion/ Historical Significance
He dealt with several health problems over his remaining few years like arthritis and kidney failure; his death on April 28, 1980 in Los Angeles was attributed to liver failure along with heart problems. Alfred Hitchcock influenced the movie industry profoundly. Most of his clever, fast-paced movies held common characteristics. The plot centers on a main character who unjustly is threatened by forces in the world around them. Hitchcock offers the audience vital information that the main character does not know—his primary instrument of suspense. The main character will usually survive the danger unharmed. Humor was incorporated into Hitchcock's movies to help ease the tension of the viewers. Hitchcock found ways into the movies he produced; he did not speak in these parts. The thriller, the genre of film championed through the work of Hitchcock, continues to entice people throughout the nation up until the present.