The Birds Final Attack Sequence with Full Symphonic Score
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- The final climatic scene from the 1963 Motion Picture "The Birds". This is one of Hitchcock's most-noted action scenes accompanied with a full symphonic score written by Marc Parella in 1992 and performed by the Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra directed by Henry Charles Smith.
The cue takes advantage of several preemptive and forecasting techniques. You know what's going to happen, but the music could fool you, until you know for sure. Equally important is the use of silence when Melanie (Tippi Hedren) opens the door. The final sequence is timed to a split second to coincide with the effects and quick edits.
Ms. Hedren called the score to her famous scene "thrilling" and "exciting".
Knowing what Hitchcock - after lying to her for the entire shoot - did to Hedren - not for one but FIVE DAYS with live birds : this scene will never feel the same.
This scene was filmed over five days with live birds hurled at her. By the end of shooting, Tippi was so exhausted she collapsed and needed medical attention. True story.
Thanks for the feedback
This scene took five days of shooting after that Tippi had a mental break down.
Tippi Hedren said she asked Hitchcock why her character would go upstairs knowing there was probable danger up there. Because I said so, was his response.
he was a terrible bastard
He was a jerk!
He was a cunt!!!!
Pardon my french
That means that stairways don't lead to Heaven as Led Zeppelin would say; they could lead us to Hell also.
Bob's burgers brought me here they matched the painting on the wall spot on lmao
same lol
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yea
Alex Gonzalez haha my exact reason for watching this clip 😂😂 I was replaying his dialogue whilst watching the video
Alex Gonzalez I'm currently watching that episode and I'm dying laughing haha
She was told the birds would be mechanical but obviously they weren't. She actually had a breakdown when one of the birds scratched her cheek and Hitchcock would let her take a break.
Hailiey Brooke Took 5 days to film this scene. The birds were thrown against her or tied up in part of her clothes of body to look like they were attacking. They actually tried to run away. She had a collapse after 5 days doing, had to some days in a hospital. That scene was very stressful for her.
My God, the first time I watched this, it felt like forever
Hitchcock may be amazing at his job, and a brilliant director. But as a human being he was an asshole.
Why?
Well he stalked and threatened to ruin Tippis career because she wasn't interested in him and in this last attack-scene he used real birds and she didn't find out until it was time to start filming it and it was a horrifying experience and he made her go through with it as an act of revenge because she didn't want to be with him and also harrased her on set with rude "jokes" and stuff all the time.
soda omg!
That's a cop-out. Most artists aren't gross, old, vindictive perverts who use their power to get revenge on vulnerable young women who won't have sex with them. The "darkness" you speak of, that artists tend to have, is usually some kind of inner torment, like clinical depression or alcoholism, not a desire to victimize others because they know they can get away with it.
Yes. Tippi said she never understood the reasoning behind this scene. Why would she go up there knowing there would be trouble, or not knowing there would be trouble. Neither made sense to her.
she was attacked by real birds here
KURUPTED PRODUCT they were thrown at her rather than attacked but yes
@@itsthatguy6878 oh uh.
It's actually pretty awful to think about. She was told they would be fake but then crew started throwing live birds at her. Sharp beaks and claws, everything. Far from ideal.
She had more trouble stopping Alfred Hitchcock from sexually attacking her than the birds,,,, True Story
They were pretty angry birds
Bob's Burgers brought he here. Omg im tippi hedren.
me to
Same
jhovuh same
Same lol
Yah you wish!
A beautiful job with the scoring. Excellent.
'Bob's Burgers' brought me here....and 'Archer'. They both spoofed Tippi Hedren in the same week!
I saw this at age 10 in 1963. This was the scene that scared me the most.
Great acting! Oh wait...she WASN'T acting.
Oh Poor Bobby
Hitchcock is a prick for these scenes. Props to Tippi for fighting through these real scenes
Thank you for your kind and generous comments. You are right the film has a strange eeriness without the music. Hitchcock also did not use a score for his film Lifeboat. Hitchcock said in response: "Out in the middle of the ocean, where's the orchestra?" Film composer David Raksin replied: "Out in the middle of the ocean, where's the camera?" I think Hitch was right about not using music all the time. My project wasn't about improving the film, just offering a "what-if" scenario.
Good cinematic taste brought be here
finally
Marc, I like the coordination of the score breaking to her audible woes and the score matching her wincing especially the leg movement. It was genius how you matched her doorknob grip with your music. This was a real treat to watch. Wow, Tippi !
There are many moment's of brilliance in your score~!
Stephen, thank you for your generous comments. I appreciate it. I enjoyed doing the project and the ASU (Arizona State University) orchestra is one of the best college orchestras. I was very fortunate to have the chance work with them and their director Henry Charles Smith.
I love that you committed to this experiment and gave the scene a new feel. The music really gives it the flavor of a score from the Sixties, and you could have gone a number of ways with it. A score by Herrmann probably would have happened if they were have chosen to do one. I imagine he would have been more subtle, atmospheric and gentle, and then, once Melanie sees the birds in the room, he would have dropped the bomb, giving the scene the kind of inevitable, raw horror it deserved. Herrmann was a master at knowing when to hold back and when to strike, Psycho and North By Northwest as the major examples.
@T0MMY2GUNS: Thanks. I appreciate your kind thoughts. I met Tippi a few years back and she thought I was some kind of nut, but she enjoyed seeing her most-famous scene with an orchestral score.
Great original score! I remember reading that Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herman got into many matches about when and when not to use music in some of the Hitchcock movies! And most of the time Hitch got what he wanted! ( I know that this movies score was a very elaborate orchestrated sound effects score but I did enjoy hearing it with a musical score! Thanks for all the effort and for posting this! Dave D.
For those who don't understand the true horror of this scene, many of those shots involved her getting attacked by the birds for real, so the blood that you see on her body most probably come from authentic wounds.
Hitchhock wanted his shot realistic, so they put her in a room filled with aggressive birds.
The sad thing is that even when the crew told Hitchcock that they should let her out, he told them no and to carry on. It’s even worse when you realise that when she was falling to the floor that was probably real to, there were so many things we didn’t know in Hollywood and still don’t.
I don't Care I'm sure it hurt a lot to actually be scratched and bitten as well. Such an awful scene.
@@ameliacrisp8482 yeah the birds should have been shot.
@@thisguy976 Why shoot the birds? Why not the HUMAN responsible for putting the birds and a fellow human in such a compromising position? No, just shoot the creature being unwillingly exploited for the entertainment of humans. 😒
This is indeed a wonderful score. But one of the reasons why I love this film so much is that it did not include any score, whatsoever, just sound effects. I think that having no score added to the terror of this film. But again, you've done a wonderful job in the Bernard Hermann vein that Hitch probably would have liked a lot. It's very cool to watch it with score.
I hope someone post the final attack scene on the brenner house. Them boarding it up and waiting for the final attack. That is the most powerful scene of the entire movie in my opinion. The sounds the birds make at they peck through the front door. Amazing.
interesting take on this scene with music... nicely done
How distasteful a scene now that we know the truth. The scene seems to go on forever and you have to ask why didn't she flee the room? Well, obviously, the director wanted her to stand there and take it...eew!
oml wtf is that true? that’s so fucked up
phantom diaries Yes it's awful. She was told the birds would be fake but instead the crew threw real birds at her (that scratch and bite of course) and forced her to stay in the room even though she hates/was scared of birds.
great score!
I especially liked the bit at 1:30-1:33, reminded me a lot of John Williams
Excellent job, keep it up!
I’ve got the videotape of BIRDS . Love old movies and VHS tapes. I’m a fan ❤
I completely understand that you weren't coming at this as an "improvement" over what is not there, but rather as a "what if" sentiment/scenario. As I've already mentioned, the results were stunning. Very, very satisfying! I'd like to hear any other scores you've written for "unscored" scenes from any other films. Do they exist? I suppose I should peruse your website for my inquiries, but right now I'm feeling too lazy. (Isn't that "slothful" of me)? Keep up your excellent composing!
Very nice- overall has a very similar feel (maybe paying homage?) to The Rite of Spring which works really well with the source film!
those were actual birds not mechanical if you seen the movie documentary then you would know he put real birds in this scene and she went through lots of trama
Tammy L agreed. It's truly disgusting
With music, if you're on the same "page" with the artist, you can have a taste of what he had in mind when he chose the piece..... But in a full theater you might have half of the crowd responding to a different choice in music, Hitchcock in his brilliant madness chose to let each and every person in the theater build the suspense in their own mind..... biggest fears are the one you chose to keep to yourself and these are triggered by a million different reasons.
You can't fail with silence, as you might have the small chance to fail with music.
That being said, I liked your version way more than the silent one. For me, the choice you did was perfect, and worked perfect. I didn't even realize the scene had music until I read the comments and had to replay it again.
Brilliant job my friend.
@RanNero: I am overwhelmed with your kind comments. Thank you very much. I am glad you enjoyed it.
The scene is a kind of a holy grail and I had the advantage of knowing that working on it so many years after the film's release. So I had to pull out all the stops and think differently. Not only do you have to think about all the visual components of the immediate scene you are working on, but equally important you have to be aware of where you are in the film. How the music applies to the context of the film is critical. Remember the film, based on the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name, is really an apocalyptic love story, and the birds are analogous to the threat of nuclear war. But in the beginning, it is a lighthearted romantic comedy. (By the way I live just two blocks from the opening scene at Union Square.)
I was so fortunate to work with the Arizona State University Symphony and director Henry Charles Smith. I hired the orchestra and the students played like seasoned pros. I was also fortunate to work with a great engineer, Dave Schmidt who contributed a great deal in mixing and mastering the session.
If you are interested, I also composed a Main Title cue for the film. It is located here: watch?v=qzjHGxITlns
A long time ago, I mistakenly remembered Tippi Hedren and Grace Kelly.
@7Millersshadow: Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind comment.
According to "All About The Birds", Tippi's character (Melanie) heard something strange. She proceeded to check many rooms, including the kitchen (where the lovebirds were). Eventually, she ends upstairs to the room where there actually ARE birds waiting to attack. For some reason, Hitch edited out all of the scenes where she was checking different rooms except the kitchen. After the kitchen scene, the camera cuts to her going upstairs. Yes, it still makes no sense for her to go searching for something that could very well be birds-in-waiting, but at least seeing her check different rooms would have made it seem a little more sensible perhaps before being attacked in the last room.
@LyleLincoln: Thank you for very kind and thoughtful comments. I did a fair amount of research not only to scoring styles of that period but also studied editing techniques too. I was lucky to have the ASU orchestra and Henry Charles Smith. They did a very fine job with the score.
Thank you for the kind and generous comment. It was a fun project.
Alfred Hitchcock made her redo this scene over forty times. Being under contract made telling him to fuck off could result in no more film roles and costly litigation. She had live birds thrown at her again and again, by the end of the day's filming she was covered in bird shit, exhausted, and emotionally shattered. He wanted to have a fling with her but she wasn't interested (and seeing pictures of him you can understand why) being rejected by her made the old bastard mad. So he decided to make things difficult...
Yep,that's right; Old Hollywood. Let's make things better in New Hollywood! But we tend to remember Hitch for his good things,and not the bad....
Orchestration is at the top.
Incredible score!
Its scary to think that those birds were real. This scene was replayed like more than 100 times i think. Also after this movie the girl actor was sent to a hospital and that was the last movie she did with Alfred Hitchcock
Crazy how the birds were ACTUALLY attacking her :s Hitchcock was a bit fucked up imo! :L
It wasn't Hitchcock that was fucked up, the film is based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier about a flock of attacking birds.
But if you read about some of the shit Hitchcock DID in some of his films, you may change your thoughts on him :P but i did not know it was based on a true story!
Hitchcock was very fucked up watch the movie " the girl " it shows all the fucked up things Hitchcock did to this actor
Daphne Du Maurier didn't force Tippi Hedren to be attacked by actual birds for hours and sustain actual bodily injury.
He stranded his own daughter at the top of a Ferris Wheel while filming Strangers on a Train, even though he knew she was terrified of heights.
This is really the ultimate "don't go up/down those stairs!" scene.
Well, I remember the film coming out. I was in high school. I don't remember the score from the film that well, but the score here seemed to fit nicely. I mean, I thought at first that it was the score from the film. Nicely done, I say.
Thank you for your comments. I appreciate it.
@marcparella Thanks for the post, hitchcock knew how to work on our nervous system :) this is an excellent thriller.
how much I miss the non-digital era of film industry... when the films do have soul and art
And special visual effects (aka bluescreen) by Ub Iwerks (from Disney).
i was brought here by bob's burgur's
Bob's Burger clearly did amazing advertisement for this movie cause most people are watching it because of season 6 of Bobs burgers 😂😂
yo me too lmao
Oh my god, I’m Tippi Hedren
I read in Daily Mirror,Tippi was first told mechanical birds would be used,but then it got changed to real ones without her knowing.Looking forward to BBC's The Girl this year,a biopic of Hitch and Teppi,and Hitch's obsession with her.
What the hell is Bobs burger. "The Girl" brought me here.
It’s a cartoon about a man named bob who makes burger with his family, it’s a comedy kinda like futureama
Bobs burgers brought me here LMAO "OMG I'm tippi hendren "
great score! reminds me of some works by leonard rosenman... very intense and complex
@crematedmemoir: Thank you very much. I appreciate your kind comment.
Great movie 👍👍
Wow! Following catching some of "the girl" on tv, I thought it was brilliantly dark, but had no idea who Tippi really was. This scene is brutal to know it was reall!
@Larry. You are probably right and I do enjoy the scene without my score as well. My goal was not to improve the scene but only present it with a different interpretation. Film Noir was a popular genre in those years and Hitchcock certainly drew from its stark realism. But then again imagine the shower scene from Psycho without Hermann's screeching minor 9ths. We have been conditioned by what we see and listen to and any new interpretation is suspicious.
who else is hers from bob's burgers?
Came because of bobs burgers!
This is fucking terrifying!
I was doing homework for English and my teacher handed me this presentation that we saw in class to help us with our homework. I was browsing through the links and when I got to the link that sent me here I'm like: UHH SCREW THIS IM OUT ONTO THE NEXT LINK because I felt REALLY sick while watching this.
yep, after watching that I had to look back at the original as a reference
Is it true that Tippi Hedren fainted after finished shooting this scene?
At the end(of the whole movie) "Mommy,can we get a parrot?" XD
LOL
studying this in school
Why isn't she screaming??????
Because if she was screaming the entire time(as most films today would make her do) it wouldn't feel as realistic and creepy as it does.
Vlogs Anonymous I think it would make the scene more scary though. If I were her Id be screaming. To me its just bad acting if she isn't screaming and doesn't show the full effect of the scene. Just my opion though.
+Susan Szabo That isn't bad acting, this scene (they filmed for several days) are for real.. Not all of it tho, but she was in that room with all the birds flying at her like crazy. I think she was in shock and she did scream alot, but since they filmed so many hours they clipped it together like that.
Susan Szabo paralyzed by fear xd
When you get scared enough, your body kind of goes in a paralyzed state.
Who else came because of bobs burgers
I like it best without any music. Music is too easy.
Mysticalfan4 yes it was crazy she was traumatized for LIFE
i have bin afraid of birds ever sins
If you opened the door, saw the hole in the roof and heard something in there... why ever would you step all the way INTO the room and close the door behind you??? Yikes!
I just the "the girl" omg! tht means tht she was actually being traumatized i feel soo bad
You can tell they were literally whipping birds at her and the door, I wonder how man had theirs wings broke
That was some scary shit back then!
Bob's Burgers lead me here
T Israel me too
Well fuck you
Same
Bob's burgers led me here lol
Music reminded me of a Lost in Space episode.
A great compliment considering John Williams scored four or five episodes and the music was used over and over in the series because it's so good.
@@JohnRedshaw But it isn't The Birds.
@meanoldrunk: Nope I did not. I have a letter from MCA Entertainment that states they do not object to limited "Fair Use" usage of this clip. I had written to the copyright owner (MCA Entertainment) in 1992 asking for permission to use the clip for promotional purposes. This clip has been showed in a number of film music classes and Ms. Hedren was sent a copy of the clip back in 1992. She wrote to me expressing her opinion of the clip. (See the above notes.) Everything is good.
Damn been on TH-cam since 1992. Props
You did a wonderful job scoring this. However, it also shows that Hitchcock was right to do this scene, and the rest of the movie with no score. The concept of birds attacking people like that is so unrealistic, so there being no musical score made it seem less cinematic and more realistic-- and actually-- more suspenseful.
Shotgun
Bang
All done
Birds got angry because they kept the lovebirds in a cage that's too small.
good
After everything she has seen throughout the day, why would she go upstairs alone! Even tippi hedren said she was clueless by it when they were filming this scene.
Teddy: Whoa, still going. That's one tough pigeon.
(Bob shudders for a bit)
Bob: I wish I had gone to Rudy's birthday. Is it weird if I just show up?
Linda: Bob, what is going on with you? I've never seen you like this.
Bob: Well, we've never had a pigeon trapped in the restaurant before, Lin. We've lived a blessed life, and now that's over.
Teddy: What's the matter? Did something happen to you? Did a pigeon wrong you?
Bob: I don't think so. I mean, maybe. But it would probably take years of therapy to- Oh, my God, I remember!
Linda: What? What? What happened? What?
Bob: I just remembered being in this house. It was dark inside. And for some reason, I don't know why. I-I went upstairs. Then I heard this strange fluttering behind a door, and I stared at the doorknob for what felt like three minutes. But then I went in, and there was this big hole in the ceiling. You could see the sky through it. And then I heard, I-I heard this terrible cooing. I guess a bunch of pigeons had flown in there, like, dozens. And then... and then they attacked me!
Linda: That didn't happen to you.
Bob: Yes, it did.
Linda: No, it happened to Tippi Hedren in The Birds.
Bob: What?
Teddy: Bob, you're describing an exact scene in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. They call it "shot for shot."
Linda: Bob, you think you're Tippi Hedren, honey.
Bob: I don't think I'm Tippi Hedren. I'm describing an event from my life.
(Later, Linda and Teddy show Bob the scene of the movie where Tippi Hedren’s character was attack by the bunch of birds)
Bob: Oh, my God, I'm Tippi Hedren.
Teddy: Yeah, you wish.
Bob: I guess I must have seen that movie when I was young.
Linda: Oh, you poor thing. You poor dumb thing.
Wheres my fly swatter?? lmao
Oh gosh I’m scarred for life
These were real birds. They had their beaks tapped shut and had people hurling them at her. They said she cut her cheek open during filming
There was no score in the original film. That's why you don't remember it that well.
Apparently that scene was as real as they came because she was in a small room with birds being launched at her out of boxes and she ended up with one of them peck underneath her eye and she recieved a cut under her left eye
This is how you get a pigeon phobia
wait? was there an original score for this movie? because in the final cut, there is no music
nope,none at all....unusual
Bobs Burgers :)
same
Wow
From what I read Alofred Hitchcock did this on purpose..it was a real attack...how awful for Tippi.