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Escrito con imparcialidad, con simpatia y con espiritu sensible, Alfred Hitchcock. La cara oculta del genio es la biografia imprescindible de un artista complejo y unico, definido por el propio autor como un almacen de todo cuanto de contradictorio hay en la naturaleza humana. Sere lo que Churchill dijo de Hitler, observaria el cineasta en sus ultimos anos, un misterio dentro de otro misterio. Por fortuna, gracias a este libro comenzaron a develarse los perfiles de ese misterio.… (más)
An exploration of the man and his work that fascinates. Interesting that Hitchcock tended to employ leading men that he envied and women that he fantasized about. Also interesting that he was such the momma's boy. ( )
Way too much detail but if read selectively it is very interesting. I am about to begin the part I suspect I will like the best. That is his work with Grace Kelly whom he secretly loved. ( )
Alfred Hitchcock was an evil bastard. This might be ascertainable by viewing his films, but, for the most part, working within the Hollywood system constrained, or at least repressed, some of the more sadistic impulses. Not off the screen, though. An anecdote, by way of illustration. Hitchcock once bet an assistant cameraman that the latter wouldn't be willing to have himself shackled to a massive camera and spend the night alone on a particularly spooky sound stage. In a seemingly good-natured gesture, Hitchcock provided the man with a bottle of brandy to fortify himself, neglecting to mention that it was liberally spiked with a powerful laxative. The next morning, Hitchcock insisted that all cast and crew be assembled early in order to witness the poor slob's abasement. Master of suspense, indeed! ( )
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It takes the pity of God
to get to the bottom of things.
—Enid Bagnold,
The Chalk Garden
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for Ned
A friend may well be reckoned
the masterpiece of Nature.
—EMERSON
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My fascination with Alfred Hitchcock began over thirty years go, when I was a schoolboy and he was quickly becoming an international institution. (PREFACE)
Reporters and photographers, movie fans and autograph-seekers and guests at the Beverly Hilton Hotel clustered in the lobby all afternoon, and by five-thirty on March 7, 1979, the desk clerks and bellmen were finding routine duties almost impossible.
Citas
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It was, as so often, a quiet, scarcely discernible moment, as if he had glimpsed the cloudless horizon that was always his image of serenity—as if his earlier, almost forgotten hopes had finally come back to gather round and had not, at the last, left him alone in the darkness.
Escrito con imparcialidad, con simpatia y con espiritu sensible, Alfred Hitchcock. La cara oculta del genio es la biografia imprescindible de un artista complejo y unico, definido por el propio autor como un almacen de todo cuanto de contradictorio hay en la naturaleza humana. Sere lo que Churchill dijo de Hitler, observaria el cineasta en sus ultimos anos, un misterio dentro de otro misterio. Por fortuna, gracias a este libro comenzaron a develarse los perfiles de ese misterio.
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