Analysis Of Movie Director

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Introduction
The paper is going to talk about the selected director who has been working from
1950 to 2000. Now, for the paper Alfred Hitchcock has been chosen to be elaborately
discussed. Hitchcock has been one of the most celebrated and worshipped director for the
presentation of his visions of uncertainty in the movies that he had offered. His movies are
considered to be the discovery of grammatical language for movies. It is believed that
moviemakers of contemporary period are inspired by Hitchcock whenever they make movies.
He has worked for more than six decades and created more than fifty films. Hitchcock is one
of the few directors who gathered courage to show something new to the audience rather he
was one of the very few directors to be existing in the beginning of the film industry. His
movies are detailed and replete of justified emotions of human world. His movies are not
made for the sole purpose of entertaining the audience but his intention was to educate the
audience with enriched thoughts and amazing and flawless artwork of camera. His movies are
the cauldrons of mixing up strange emotions with uncanny murder (Burget). Suspense seems
to be a child-play to Hitchcock. Therefore, in this paper, the first part will talk about his life
and career then it will talk about his best movies and honors he had received and finally it
will talk about two of his best movies.
Life and Career
The director was born in Leytonstone Essex in the year 1899 and he entered the world
of movies in the year 1919. Although he started his career at an early age yet he did not start
it with directing movie rather he started as the title card designer after he was done with the
course of a technical clerk. He also completed the training of copy writer for a cable
corporation of telegraph. The first time he came up with his administrative representation is

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that of a film namely, The Pleasure Garden that was released in the year 1925. The
independent movie that him success for the first time is The Lodger: A Story of the London
Fog (1927). He was not only a director but also a performer in his own films. He had been
seen as acted in certain cameo roles that will always be cherished by the movie lovers across
the globe. He directed a couple of thrillers during the 1930’s namely, The 39 Steps and The
Lady Vanishes stole the heart of the audience helping him to pave the path for his entrance
into Hollywood.
With the arrival of 1940 and so Hitchcock gained the popularity of an international
filmmaker and with the constant push from the producer, David O. Selznick he indulged
himself into Hollywood completely. He composed a garland of successful movies
incorporating Rebecca, Suspicion, Notorious and movies like Foreign Correspondent and
Shadow of a Doubt are some honorable mentions in his early stage of filmmaking. He was
nominated for the movies like Rebecca, Spellbound and Lifeboat and Rebecca won the best
picture in the Academy Award. The success that he made out of making four movies in the
1960’s transported him to some other level turning the whole world of movies upside down.
Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho made a complete series of best
movies of all time and are still considered to be the best films made in history by certain
critiques. He in fact, won nominations for the best director for Rear Window and Psycho. The
worldwide poll consisting of hundred movie critiques took a massive decision of removing
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles from the position of the greatest movie ever made from the
house of British Film Institution and replaced with Vertigo. Eight top movies of his career
were placed in National Film Registry of United States by the year 2018.