Here.
A lot of people think I'm a monster.
And they really do. I've been told that.
That they don't care for the...
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And afterwards I've found women say,
Oh, you're nothing like I thought you were.
I say, what did you expect?
I say, well, we thought you'd be very unpleasant and this and that.
And it has happened more than once.
I'm talking not actresses, but responsible women.
And with a complete misconception.
Due to the fact that I deal in crime and that kind of thing.
Well, I'm just the opposite.
I'm as more scared than they are of things in real life.
Saturday night from the pen of Harold Robbins comes the explosive conclusion to the dream merchants.
I'm prepared to put up my stuff.
You win the wrist, you control the magnet.
I see you, sir.
Standing in the background, wanting me.
Don't touch me!
I said I was sorry!
That's how I built the magnet, that's how you're going to lose me.
And who would I lose it to?
You?
I want to put you in Pestler's jar.
The conclusion to the dream merchants, Saturday, 8.30 on nine.
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G'day Mary, it's Rocker.
Hi there, you're back.
How did it go, tiger?
Great. Want to see some pics?
No.
Guess where you're going?
Norway.
Sweden.
Placer to home than that.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Switzerland.
He couldn't afford Switzerland.
Not even warm.
That's the state.
Ever heard of New Zealand?
New Zealand?
Kiwi country.
All these shots were taken in New Zealand.
New Zealand, it's a small world.
New Zealand?
Go on, size six for us.
Half a dozen.
A man alone.
Innocent, defenseless.
A landscape at once familiar and strange.
Like the landscape of our dreams.
And as it sometimes happens in our dreams,
someone for some unknown reason terrorizes the dreamer.
This scene from north by northwest is quintessential Hitchcock.
Wordless, elegantly shot and edited, profoundly disturbing.
For over three decades, people have been calling Alfred Hitchcock the master of suspense.
But he's more than that.
In the age of anxiety, he is the movie's great artist of anxiety.
His wondrous technique is all directed to a simple end.
Staying in touch with his primal fears.
The stuff of his childish nightmares and ours.
The design of the early English pictures were almost instinctive.
There was less calculation in terms of an audience.
It's when I came to America that I became more aware of audiences.
Saboteur was made in America in 1942.
But it's like the English films in its simple, straightforward plot.
A man is falsely accused of sabotage.
He pursues the real secret agents from the west coast to the east.
Desperate to prevent them from destroying a ship at the moment it's launched.
This is Bill Donnan again, ladies and gentlemen.
You've just heard Rear Admiral Pierce speaking from the...
The essential fact is to get real suspense, you must let the audience have information.
Now let's take the old fashioned bomb theory.
You and I sitting talking will say about baseball.
We're talking for five minutes.
Suddenly a bomb goes off and the audience have a ten second terrible shock.
Now let's take the same situation.
Tell the audience at the beginning that under the table and show it to them.
There's a bomb and it's going to go off in five minutes.
Now we talk baseball, what are the audience doing?
They're saying don't talk about baseball, there's a bomb under there.
Get rid of it.
But they're helpless, they can't jump out of their seats.
Up onto the screen and grab hold of the bomb and throw it out.
The crowd is tense.
It is indeed a solemn occasion.
I switch you over to our microphone near the bow of the ship so that you may hear the actual launching.
Now I can see that Mrs. Pierce is moving towards the bow of the ship.
I'll switch you over now to Mrs. Pierce.
In the name of the people of the United States, I christen thee Alaska.
Music
But one important factor, if you work the audience up to this degree, that bomb must never go off and kill anyone.
Otherwise they will be extremely angry with you.
The chase, as it often does in Hitchcock, leads to a theater.
Harsh reality intruding on a place of comforting, comfortable illusions.
What do you think this is? I've caught you at last, you rat in the grass.
Please stop that. Run Wilbur, run before he gets your range.
I think I got it now. Get out before I shoot again.
Run Wilbur, run quick.
Never touch that.
I'll get you this time.
Run Wilbur.
My husband, he shot.
I'm going to shoot again.
I'll kill the rattle for the last thing I do.
He was only kidding, I swear.
Yeah, I'm only kidding too.
Get out of here, get out of here.
It climaxes at a symbol of our most cherished beliefs.
Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Washington Memorial.
You know, these things occur to one because you take symbols of complete order and throw into it the element of disorder.
Come on Fry.
In Hitchcock, the representative of good is often closely linked psychologically to the representative of evil.
Sometimes ironically they are physically linked.
In saboteur, hero must try to rescue villain.
It's the only way to clear his name.
And besides, in the modern world, perhaps it's only luck that determines our roles.
Everyone after all is guilty of something.
I'll get your sleeve.
Tell them quick, the sleeve, sleeve.
Go!
And then as one went on, you see, the question came up of A, avoiding the cliché in my type of material,
and trying to avoid the repetition of the same situations.
And the only way to avoid it is through character.
They're very different people.
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It's a bit small.
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The symbol of order in shadow of a doubt was a small, peaceful American town.
With Thornton Wilder's help,
Hitchcock examined the fragile, illusory nature of its complacency
and suggested that in our times, evil can intrude anywhere, wearing any mask.
Even that of a beloved, magical relative.
My, she was pretty.
Everybody was sweet and pretty then, Charlie. The whole world.
A wonderful world.
Not like the world today.
Not like the world now.
It's great to be young then.
We're all happy now, Uncle Charlie.
Look at us. For once we're all happy at the same time.
Now for your present, Charlie.
I don't want anything.
Right now I have enough.
Before you came, I didn't think I had anything, but
now I don't want another thing.
He has to be an attractive man.
He is not a murderer in the sense of a fiction murderer,
where the tendency would be to make him look sinister
and you'd be scared of him.
Not a bit. He had to be charming, attractive.
If he weren't, he'd never get near one of his victims.
What sort of an audience would it be?
Old women like myself, busy with our homes, most of us.
Women keep busy in towns like this.
The cities are different.
The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead.
Husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working.
Then they die and leave their money to their wives.
They're silly wives.
What do the wives do, these useless women?
You see them in the hotels, the best hotels every day by the thousands.
Drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge,
playing all day and all night, smelling of money.
Proud of their jewelry, but of nothing else.
Horrible.
Faded, fat, greedy women.
They're alive, they're human beings.
Are they?
But our evil and our good are getting closer together today.
That the hero is no longer tall with a perfect profile or flaxen hair.
And the villain doesn't kick the dog anymore.
He's a charmer.
In fact, we've reached the point in today's sophisticated era
that you can barely tell one from the other.
Don't jump on the seats, Roger.
Roger, what did I tell you?
Porter, there's one more bag. I think it got taken in the other car.
We'll get it, please.
Charlie, the train's going to start. I don't want to get carried away.
Oh, boy, maybe it's too late. Maybe I'll have to go along.
There's plenty of time. You run along. We'll follow.
Charlie, just a minute.
I want you to know I think you were right to make me leave.
It's best for your mother, best for all of us.
You saw what happened to her last night.
She's not very strong, you know. I don't think she could stand the shock.
I remember once when she was a little girl.
Oh, the train's moving, Uncle Charlie.
Listen, Charlie, I want you to forget all about me,
forget that I became the Santa Rosa.
Your hands.
Let me go, Uncle Charlie. Let me go.
I've got to do this, Charlie, so long as you know what you do about me.
Uncle Charlie was Hitchcock's first full-scale psychopath.
Not yet, Charlie. I did get a little faster. Just a little faster.
Now.
Charlie filmed his first clear statement that love, understanding,
and good order are a poor defense against madness.
So we can't say there is somewhere to hide.
The sheltered life in the town of Santa Rosa where this young girl lived
may have been her world, but it wasn't the world.
Outside there, there were many other things happening.
And of course, unfortunately, you see, today, to a great extent,
evil has spread that every little town has had its share of evil.
If one reads a book and providing all the story elements there,
the characters are there, it's best then to lay the book aside
and start with scene one in cinema terms.
In other words, we don't have pages to fill or pages from a typewriter to fill.
We have a rectangular screen in a movie house.
Now, this rectangular screen has got to be filled with a succession of images.
And the mere fact that they are in succession, that's where the ideas come from.
One picture comes up after another.
The public aren't aware of what we call montage,
or in other words, the cutting of one image to another.
They go by so rapidly so that they are absorbed by the content that they look at on the screen.
But such content is created on the screen and not necessarily in a single shot.
For example, devising in a picture like Psycho,
the murdering and the stabbing of a girl in a bath, in a shower, in a bathroom.
This scene is 45 seconds long, but was made up out of 78 pieces of film,
going through the projector and coming onto the screen in great rapidity.
But the overall impression given the audience is one of an alarming, devastating murder scene.
The
Now, this has to be written out on paper.
In other words, you can't walk onto the set, or you can if you want to, but for my money,
I would prefer to write all these things down, however tiny and however short the pieces
of film are, they should be written down just in the same way as a composer writes down
those little black dots from which we get beautiful sound.
But what do we have?
We have a girl who was stolen forty thousand dollars, all of a sudden out of the blue,
attacked by a woman with a knife in a shower.
Now this is such a shock, and because the shock comes because we've been leading the
audience along the lines of forty thousand dollars stolen, but suddenly the twist and
the shock is this thing in the shower.
From that point on, the audience's mind is full of apprehensions, but as the film went
on, you got less and less violence on the screen.
It's the added fact that somewhere in this Victorian looking house is a menacing figure
with a knife.
The audience know it, but they don't know from where she's going to pop out.
You can do it in a modern house, providing that the audience know death may appear at
any minute.
For me, I'm a purist in terms of cinema as much as I can.
I'm inclined to go for the subjective, in other words, the point of view of an individual,
so that visually you do a close-up of him, then you show what he is looking at, then
you cut back to the close-up and you see his reaction.
To sum it up, you are transferring the menace from the screen into the mind of the audience,
and it increased to a point where with the audience, with the girl going around the house,
you became unbearable to them until you reached your climax.
We were the first to bring you the news, first to bring you a point of view in those good
old days and those bad old days.
But now the world is smaller, life and time are running faster.
You need a friend to guide you, a friend to stand by you.
Nine years later, you're back.
I remember what we were through in my service to see the world run on the last primetime.
A world filled with hope, a world filled with fear
Prime News
And now for Sunday's news
How can you give Sunday's news today?
I don't know, but at least I get seen on TV
Free in your Sunday mail this weekend
I can tell you where the hottest gossip is
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Mrs. Bates
Now, I have a very strong visual sense
So while I'm going through this process
I am absorbing all the visual side of this film
So what happens?
By the time that the script is finished and the dialogue has been added
I know every shot and every angle by heart
So I become innocent when I'm shooting the picture
I very rarely look at the script
Because I've now by this time learned the dialogue myself
I rarely look at the script and I'm perhaps equivalent
But maybe not so good as a conductor conducting an orchestra without a score
I could almost say I wished I didn't have to go on the stage and shoot that film
Because from a creative point of view one has gone through that process
That's why, you see, I never look through the camera
People say you don't look through the camera
I say why should I?
When we've been putting this thing down on paper, I'm looking at a screen
In its economy and rhythm, this scene from the birds is one of Hitchcock's greatest sequences
A distillation of everything he knows about his art
We see the gathering menace, the girl does not
Throughout the film we've been given the knowledge denied its characters
That nature itself, not just a single human nature, is disordered in revolt
Like most of us, this woman is, in the legal sense, innocent of crimes against nature
She's done nothing to deserve irrational persecution
On the other hand, in Hitchcock's universe no one is morally innocent
We are all tainted by something like original sin
Defined here as indifference to the natural order
Music
Basically, in the birds, what you have is a kind of an overall sketchy theme of everyone taking nature for granted
Everyone took the birds for granted until the birds one day turned on them
The birds had been shot at, eaten, put in cages, they'd suffered everything from the humans
And it was time they turned on them
Sound of thunder
Don't mess about or tamper with nature
Look, man's fooled around with uranium-235
Out of the ground and look where it's brought us
And he's just taken uranium-235 for granted, it's a nothing
But it's plenty
Now he takes the, who knows, it's feasible for the, in the year 3000 or 4000
For all the animals to have taken over
Birds are not aggressive creatures, miss
They bring beauty into the world, it is mankind rather
Cam, 3000 fried chicken, baked potato on all of them
May I speak to Mitch Brenner please?
Yes, I'll wait
It is mankind rather who insists upon making it difficult for life to exist upon this planet
Now if it were not for birds
Mrs. Bundy, you don't seem to understand, this young lady said there was an attack on the school
Impossible
Mitch
It's the end of the world
Thus set the Lord God into the mountains, the hills, and the rivers and the valleys
Behold I, even I, shall bring a sword upon you
Birds have been on this planet, Miss Daniel, since Archaeopteryx, 140 million years ago
Doesn't it seem odd that they'd wait all that time to start a war against humanity?
No one called it a war
Scotch light on the water
You and Mr. Shoes seem to be implying as much
Gold's a scavenger's anyway, most birds are
Get yourselves guns and wipe them off the face of the earth
That would hardly be possible
Why not, Mrs. Bundy?
Because there are 8650 species of birds in the world today, Mr. Carter
It is estimated that 5,750,000,000 birds live in the United States alone
The five continents of the world
Kill them all, get rid of them, messy animals
Probably contain more than 100 billion birds
It's the end of the world
They're attacking again, we're gonna need to stay in here
Come on, Al
The usual evasions, science, religion, studied insensitivity
Are satirized and so denied us
We must defend ourselves as best we can, beast to beast, and hope for mercy
The whole art of the cinema, it seems to me
Is its ability to appeal to a world audience in any language
The stress on the pictorial
Enables you to reach the widest possible audience
Look at the gas, that man's lighting a cigar
Hey you, that guy's shoes are playing match, look out, get out of there
Mr. Rodden
Watch out, look out, watch out
If you are using little pieces of film put together
Then it's possibly feasible to do a scene inside a telephone booth
But galloping horses and thousands of cattle is not necessarily cinema
That is what I call photography
When death and destruction come in Hitchcock's films
The camera often pulls back to a high angle, studying it dispassionately
It's like the eye of a pitiless, indifferent, and ironic god
So amused by the desperate scramble below that he cannot bring himself to intervene
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Evil is, is complete disorder
Although common in practice
Cut it out, don't be stupid
I was trained by experts
I can't take you
How do you say?
One arm tied behind my back
The banality of evil
It appears in your kitchen
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Cracking bad jokes
Writing a winning streak
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difficult thing to kill. Okay you had your fun now stop these games.
Even if we win we lose. Drag down to the enemy's level. Stripped of our illusions
about ourselves our civilization. In Hitchcock any room can turn into that
remembered prison cell claustrophobic with degradation.
This terribly slow process of putting the Germans head into the gas oven and
holding it there. One couldn't help think that here we are back at Auschwitz
again and the gas ovens. You see the world today is you know full of brutality
and but more than that it's it's kind of it's developed into brutality with a
smile. I thought I'd already explained to you that we cannot help you. Oh come on
I know that you can be most helpful when you try. Look Mr. Robinson you want women
of a specific type. How shall I put it? Certain peculiarities appeal to you and
you need women to submit to them. Here we have I'm afraid a very normal clientele
and now if you'll kindly let me get on with my lunch. I don't think you're
really trying your best for me. I mean if you can fix up a lot of videos then why not me?
I've explained you're different. How so? I have my good points. I like flowers and
fruit. People like me. I've got things to give. It's worse than brutality. You know
it's it's coming in pointing a gun at a man and says I'm sorry but I'm afraid I'm
gonna have to take your money. I hate doing this because my father always said
what one shouldn't steal bang he shoots. Because that's a horrible situation
because he's talking in reasonable terms.
Lovely.
You shall not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the hour of the day.
Lovely.
The president will forgive them.
Lovely.
You bitch.
Women.
They're all the same.
They're all the same. I'll show you.
He does. He did.
Help me. Help me.
And that struck me as being the epitome of evil. The attitudes of these men.
The complete lack of remorse or almost giggling over it.
Useless to pray. In a chance universe we are victimized by accident,
escaped by accident. External reality has come more and more to resemble the
world that used to exist only in the anxious imaginings of Alfred Hitchcock's
mind. History has confirmed his vision. The only fantasy left is that he's just
an entertainer.
What was it Robert? The old saw by Robert Burns. Man's inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn. But he must have had some reason for saying that.
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Here we are. I'm on the second floor.
The artist's task, a poet says, is to make the visible a little hard. In
Frenzy, Hitchcock makes it very hard. Almost unbearable. We want to cry out a warning.
I don't know if you know it, Babs, but you're my type of woman.
But silence compels silence. Back down the stairs in the street, life goes
heedlessly on. We hurry to join it.
I'm pretty well alone. I don't get involved with conflicts. I don't see the point of it.
One can only go by what one sees around. You know, I used to say, well, one thing
they can't take away from me, and that's my talent.
I think somebody once said to me, what's your idea of happiness? And I said, a
clear horizon. No clouds, no shadows, nothing.
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at 2.30 on nine. Now, Miami Vice moves to Tuesday night at 8.30.
Hey, hey, hey. I'm the jewel of the jungle, and you know that. Yeah, right.
It's a high ride now. You need clearance to land. We got to bust a major cool.
You're big time, aren't you, Bob? You push jump, don't you, Bob? Sonny gets a tip-off
from an informant, but at what price? Who is your informant? If I give you one, I
may as well give you all of them. Miami Vice, now Tuesday night, followed by
St. Elsewhere on nine.
Oh, not another survey. Just one question. OK, hurry up and blindfold me so I can
pick the one I... No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm in a terrible hurry. We just want
to know if you can identify the term ecumenical. Ecu...ecu...
Menical, yes. Oh, yes, it's that preservative they put in food. No. Oh, isn't an
ecumenical a sort of horse with a golden horn in the middle of its head? No, no, no.
You're thinking of a unicorn. Oh, am I? Yes. Actually, ecumenical means that
different churches get together to work on programs that show God's love in the
community. That's nice. Do you mind if I make a suggestion? No, what's that?
That name. I think you should change it. Oh, to what? Well, something that means
well, showing God's love by programs of work, by different churches, and well,
getting together, you know, something like that. It's worth thinking about.
Good evening. I'm Sarah Henderson. Welcome to Nightline. Philippines Armed Forces
Chief Fidel Ramos has ordered the arrest of a pro-Marcus general as a key plotter
in this week's attempted coup. Ramos says the general was also involved in a plot
to restore ousted President Ferdinand Marcos to power last July. Ramos told
reporters that 500 people, including 137 civilians, have been arrested over the
rebellion. Motoring man Peter Werrett walked free from a Sydney courtroom this
afternoon after a judge cleared him of drink driving while under
disqualification. Werrett was relieved of the decision but still angry. His
lawyers claimed that the case had left him destitute. One night last March,
Werrett was a passenger in a 1956 Morris Minor which was stopped for failing to
indicate. His de facto wife who was driving subsequently failed a breath test
and according to police, Werrett was told not to drive the car. Police told the
court his eyes were bloodshot and partially closed. He swayed from side to
side and back and forth although there was no wind. Werrett was also being
watched by a member of the public, Rod McDonald, who thought the motoring man
looked under the weather. Mr. McDonald called the police when Werrett, who only
had three days to serve of a six month driving suspension, got into the Morris
and drove away. Werrett's troubles deepened an hour later when he lied to
police about having driven the car. He also failed a preliminary breath test
but was never fully breathalysed. A few weeks later he was charged with driving
while disqualified and driving under the influence. Today, Werrett admitted lying
to police but denied he'd said he'd had heaps to drink. I wasn't drunk, I quite
often sway when I'm angry. My red eyes are from conjunctivitis, which I've had
for 15 years. Werrett said he only drove the car because it was his wife's pride
and joy and it was parked illegally and dangerously. Werrett's lawyers told the
court his client was destitute as a result of the previous driving charge.
The magistrate dismissed today's charges and although relieved, Werrett says the
damage is done. The countdown to the start of the America's Cup final is
almost over. Tomorrow all eyes will be on Ian Murray on Kookaburra 3 and Stars
and Stripes Dennis Connor when the gun goes off for the first race off
Fremantle. But despite the growing tension, the two skippers are remaining
surprisingly calm. It's still going to come down to who's got the fastest boat
and who wins the start and who gets around the top mark first and who's still
in front of the bottom mark. For the man who lost the cup and wants it back,
this is not a personal vendetta. This is not a Dennis Connor show, this is a
Stars and Stripes show. Neither skipper offered a prediction and apparently are
not about to lose any sleep with pre-race nerves. Leading up to the race, Connor
has rarely appeared more relaxed, clowning around the dock, playing hit and miss
in between testing the parachute design spinnaker nicknamed Dolly Parton. Asked
if he was intimidated by it, Murray was very brief. No. An hour or so later the
pair had met only once before, were together again for the traditional
tossing of a coin which determines who would have the tactical advantage at the
start. Connor won but only after a protest. Murray's sales a lot better than
he flips a coin according to DC. Then a parting piece of advice. More rivalry on
the water, this time between two of the world's great universities, Oxford and
Cambridge. But it seems clever tactics by Oxford to win the traditional Tim's
boat race may have just backfired. When Cambridge defeated Oxford for the first
time in a decade last year, the dark blues vowed that the unthinkable would
never happen again. To restore their honor, they recruited American Olympic
rowers. But now with only two months to the 1987 challenge, that win at all cost
policy has been seriously compromised by internal bickering. The Oxford crew has
mutinied following the sacking of one of the Americans, Chris Clark. It all began
in the cold weeks of winter training when Clark refused to change positions. And
then the president of the Oxford University Boat Club, Donald McDonald,
replaced Clark altogether. When that happened, all five American oarsmen and
several British teammates pulled out, leaving McDonald to train on the river
alone. Oxford's coaches are a proud lot and have warned that the reserve crew
will represent the university if the mutiny continues beyond Sunday. But the
oarsmen are also a proud lot and come race day, March 28, they say they'll be
sitting at home. Probably watching it on TV. To cricket now and the West Indies
have won the World Series Cup clash against England at the MCG by six
wickets. Viv Richards was named man of the match after breaking through the tight
England bowling with 58 runs. Now to the weather for Brisbane this weekend. And
a mainly fine day coming up with a brief shower or two and light to moderate
southeast to northeast winds. The temperature range 23 to 30 degrees. Well
that's nightline for this Friday the 30th of January. Enjoy your weekend. From
Sarah Henderson, good night.
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