Tippi Hedren is the mother of Melanie Griffith. And speaking of Miss Hedren, the scene in the attic with the birds took a week to shoot. Those were real birds thrown at her and pecking at her. When she fell against the door she was exhausted from the experience and spent a few days recuperating from a nervous breakdown.
Michelle, you wanted to know the name of that song the kids were singing at the school. My mom was a school music teacher and she taught a version of it. It's called The Wee Cooper of Fife. The version she taught went, "There was a wee Cooper who lived in Fife/ Nickety-nackety noo,noo,noo/ And he had gotten a gentle wife/ Hey Willie woe-wacky ho/ John Doogle-a lay/row rushity roo row row." Glad you were interested! Mom's been gone since December of '21 but I think she would have enjoyed teaching it to you.
great video and you are both very beautiful! Bodega Bay is a real place, it's northwest of the San Francisco Bay. I'm from the Bay Area and still live there! 🙂 The Tides restaurant -- where the gas tank explosion happens -- is still there! They did a bunch of renovations to the building, so it does not look the same, but the inside looks similar, and you can still go in and eat....they have a gift shop with a replica of how it looked when the movie was shot. You can still visit the church, but the school from the movie is now private property, and if you approach, the property owners get upset and might call PD 😲 I definitely recommend a visit...the closest airport is actually not SFO but STS. That's Sonoma. But Sonoma is part of the San Francisco Bay Area (it's "the north bay" and also "wine country"). From the airport, you can drive to Sonoma, or there is also a bus. It's the Bay Area after all. You don't have to drive around here if you don't want to. I'm 46 and don't how to drive, because of the world class transit, lol. 🙂 They have an Alfred Hitchcock movie festival and a Birds festival every year! 🙂
Force Of Light Entertainment When I was 14, I asked my father what the scariest movie was he ever watched and he said, "The Birds" and I asked him why and he said, "Because it could actually happen!".🐦🐦🐦💀😱🤣
Hitchock puts so many things in his movies that are supposed to hint at where it is going, that i found watching them many times gives me a fuller understanding. The Birds is one of those movies.
In 1963 I was the age of those kids in this movie. The hair styles and clothes are familiar, the men usually wore suits, and the adults all smoked. This still is one of my favorite movies, partly because of the suspense, and partly because it's from an era I remember that's long gone.
I was a freshman in 1968. When we went to the Freshmen Dining Hall for dinner, we were not admitted unless we had a suit coat and tie. I had a lab on Tuesdays which ended at 6 and I had to rush back to my room to change and get to the dinning hall before it closed at 6:30. However, this was a year when everything changed. (Freshmen also had to wear a special beanie the first week, down from a full year in the past.) By the end of that year, guys were going to eat in shorts and a tee shirt, with the required coat and a tie loosely draped around their neck. The dress code ended for the next year. There are many things from that era I fondly remember but also tons of things gladly discarded.
This was made Back in the Day when SUSPENSE was a GOOD thing! The story is very simple and even leaves you hanging as to the mystery of why The Birds went crazy but it was a major Hit and IS still a great CLASSIC in true Hitchcock style. Today they would have had everything here happen within 20 minutes. In 81, I was on the crew of a Tippi Hedren Disney film called ROAR. Her husband, film Producer Noel Marshall & their kids that included teen Melanie Griffith, who was still unknown were in the movie about their true family story of living at their big cat sanctuary in SoCal. SHAMBALA as it was called still exist. Then in her 40's Tippi was still FINE!
The little girl was Veronica Cartwright who also played Lambert in Alien (1979). She has a sister, Angela, who played Penny in Lost in Space and was one of the children in Sound of Music.
The scene where Melanie is sitting on the bench when the birds gather and the children are singing is a masterclass of building suspense and is so eerie. Also, the ending is perfect. No explanation for why the birds were attacking and it's left up to our imagination what will happen next. That's the best kind of horror, the fear of the unknown...
Rod Taylor also stars in the 1960 movie "The Time Machine" based on H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, it was one of the first movies about time travel and won an Oscar for best visual effects, check it out if you get a chance
I saw it on TV in the mid-60s as a little kid and of course was freaked out. It played to a different generation, their fears; and never considered the whole Rod, Suzanne, Tippy, Mom expectation quadrangle tension going-on but at the end you see Mom looking down at Tippy sympathetically. You’re led to believe the whole shared trauma will work out to an eventual happy ever after scenario. Doubtful that sub-text would be as clear today. A great time capsule though.
I think he was trying for some misdirection with the first 45 minutes being kinda of boy meets girl type movie and then little hints are being thrown with random bird attacks. One of my favorites. Gotta remember the year it was made was 1963. Lots of changes in 61 years.
In that 45 minutes, he also introduced all the key people and locations so it is always clear to the viewer who each is, where everyone is and how far it is from other locations. It's a good old filmmaking that respects the basics things.
Tippi Hedren and the teacher is Susan Pleshette. The little girl is Veroncia Cartwirght who played Joan in Alien. The grand ma is Jessica Tandy al al Driving Miss Daisy
Susan was most famous for playing Bob Newhart's wife in the 1970's Bob Newhart Show. She also made a cameo in the last episode of the Newhart show where Bob woke up from the terrible nightmare of being an innkeeper in Vermont with a different blonde wife, ie. the entire run of the 1980s TV series. It was a brilliant example of Bob's warped sense of humor.
Such a classic animal horror film! Poor Tippi Hedren had to go through a lot, especially the final scene when all of the birds attack her ☠ Great reaction, as always!
It’s important to remember times were different back in these older films. * People didn’t always lock their doors back then. It also wasn’t uncommon for people to just walk into someone’s home after a quick knock. * Peoples phone numbers and addresses were public information via Phone Books. In other words, it wouldn’t be odd to give someone that information.
It's old fashioned in that the action and horror serve to show character development. That's why the movie is "slow" at first to a modern audience. The movie isn't about "how realistically can we depict gruesome killings" and more about the war of the sexes (humankind's complicated mating ritual) in the first 45 minutes. Then, like 'Psycho' abrupt change in tone. Too bad the gorgeous California scenery bored you.
What young people do not get is there was no internet, many small towns only had a theatre, nothing else, so when they got a baby sitter went to a movie, they loved the movie being long, they weren't getting text messages and watching youtube, lol. P.S. I agree, I never cared much for The Birds, but some people from that era really loved it.
Ladies, you both look Beautiful this morning! So this movie traumatized me as a kid in the 60's. It got a lot of tv time back in the day. Holy moly! Thanks for sharing it.
According to a Sept 2016 article on the website the ultimate rabbit: “The Birds” actually marked Hedren’s film debut as an actress. Hitchcock saw Hedren in a diet soda commercial, and this led him to cast her in the movie. This opportunity came at a crucial time for Hedren as she had just moved back to Los Angeles with her daughter Melanie Griffith and was experiencing some problems. “My daughter was presented with a box when Hitchcock took us to lunch, and it was a wooden box and Melanie opened it and it was an incredible doll of me in the green suit that I wore in ‘The Birds,’” Hedren said. “The face was so perfect that it scared her to the point where she kind of freaked out. Everybody made it sound like it was Hitchcock playing a dirty trick or doing something really nasty to Melanie and that wasn’t it. It was supposed be a very, very beautiful gift and it just went awry. She was so affected by it that it was put away somewhere, and I unfortunately don’t even know what happened to it.”
Back in the early sixties, a lot of people never locked their doors. Crime wasn’t as prevalent as it is today, we had about half the people today and a strong middle class. The tax rates rose as your income rose, topping off at 91% if you had no deductions. A single income could support a family.
The movie rating system was implemented in 1968. The original ratings were G , GP, M (mature ), R, and X. Movies before this can be given ratings from the current system based on the MPAA review of the film
The scene where Tippi Hedren was being attacked by the birds, actually traumatized her. There were live birds attached to her with strings so they couldn’t get away.
When I was growing up in the 70s this was often on TV so it was my real introduction to Hitchcock abd though it was based on a book there was a real incident in 1961 that inspired Hitchcock to make the movie the the California town of Capitola was bombarded by seabirds that had become disoriented and crashed into buildings and cars
When I saw that you two were doing a reaction to The Birds, I knew right away that Michelle was going to get mad at certain people for their stupidity so I had to check it out. She didn’t disappoint. :)
Veronica Cartwright who play Cathy will play in another great suspens movie later : Alien. Rod Taylor (Mitch) was one of the favorite actor of my dad since he see him in the 60's adaptation of "The Time Machine". I think Hitchcock wanted to experiment something with this film. It made it just after psycho, which was an experimentation too. He wanted to put his obsession in a situation of pure suspens. No one psychokiller or something else but just the nature which become dangerous. I like there isn't explanation of why the birds kills. I like this part of mystery where you can imagine what you want. But you also can see the movie like a fantastic movie, where the birds are the materialization of the frustrations of the characters.
Always love how nice everyone dresses and the colors in Hitchcock movies, seen this many times, Rod Taylor always a favorite, I like how Tarantino put him in Inglorious Bastards as Churchill shortly before he died, thanks Yall!
See you guys are young. Back in the day, you could trust people more. There was a lot less of a chance of getting hurt by someone. Especially in a place like that.
Thanks for your reaction! I highly recommend other Hitchcock films: North by Northwest (1959) Vertigo (1958) To Catch a Thief (1955) Dial M for Murder (1954) Strangers on a Train (1951) Rebecca (1940) Notorious (1946) Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
I've never understood how, at the end, they had a choice between Melanie's sports car and a truck. Mitch had that 1963 Ford Galaxie that he was driving in the city. That's a heavy full sized car, with heavy duty windows, and room for all of them. Where was it?
I agree that this is not Hitchcock’s best though it does have some great shots. I would really recommend Rebecca (1940) and Notorious(1944). I think you guys will enjoy them a lot more !!
His mom played the old women in *Fried Green Tomatoes* and in *Diving Miss Daisy* she was like 54 in this movie and Rod Taylor (son Mitch) was like 33. So, meet "Idgie" when she was young.
It is indeed depressing how little patience audiences have now--and how quick they are to draw conclusions or expect instant answers, believing they are ahead of the movie based on formulaic genre expectations. Movie watching has become express lane shopping rather than settling in for a ride that goes at its own distinct pace.
According to a May 2021 article on the website Grunge: "Roar"(1981) is probably considered one of the most dangerous films ever made. It was very much a family picture - literally. It starred Tippi Hedren with her husband, Noel Marshall (who also wrote, directed, and produced the film) "Among those injured on the set included Hedren and her family. Hedren had to get 38 stitches after being bitten by a lion and also endured a fractured leg and multiple scalp wounds. Her husband was injured so many times he ended up in the hospital for gangrene. Daughter Melanie was mauled so badly by a lion that she needed facial reconstructive surgery. The movie's filming was supposed to take only nine months, but the entire project ended up taking five years to complete. According to The Week, Roar cost $17 million to make, and the movie only made $2 million after it was finally released."
The mother, played by Jessica Tandy, was 54 yrs old at the time of this movie. The right age for having a full grown son at the time. Her son would have been about 35.
Nice reaction ladies. You know, Disney did that last shot where all the birds were roosting on the front lawn. Most of them were animatronic. Very impressive.
TO CATCH A THIEF (1954) with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. North by Northwest (1958) with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. Vertigo (1958) with James Stewart and Kim Novak.
I think we cheat ourselves of fully enjoying a films story and its characters if we constantly think how we’d do things differently. That’s probably not how the storyteller meant it to be interpreted. We all do this from time to time don’t we. We watch and rewatch films because we enjoy them. It’s the journey the film takes us on that we remember.
I think the movie doesn't translate well to small screens. A lot of these movies were made specifically for the big screen. When you see these movies on the big screen it almost feels like 3D and you feel your there the long beginning I think was Hitchcock trying to get you to know and like the charters before the bad happens otherwise no one would care what happened you had nothing invested in the characters.✌️❤️
"Don't they ever stop migrating?" Now that you've seen this movie, I highly suggest Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes (1978) get on your list. It (and its immediate sequel) is on Tubi right now. Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of actress Darlene Conley. Practical Wardrobe Fact: Melanie wears the same green suit throughout the movie, so Tippi Hedren was provided with six identical green suits for the shoot. Get Them Off Fact: The scene where Melanie (Tippi Hedren) is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to her clothes by long nylon threads so they could not get away. Premiere Shenanigans Fact: When audiences left the U.K. premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further. Bird Wrangler Fact: Sir Alfred Hitchcock revealed on The Dick Cavett Show (1968) that 3,200 birds were trained for the movie. He said the ravens were the cleverest, and the seagulls were the most vicious. Rod Taylor claims that the seagulls were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much. Location Location Fact: Mitch Zanich, owner of the Tides Restaurant at the time of shooting, told Sir Alfred Hitchcock he could shoot there if the lead male in the movie was named after him and Hitchcock gave him a speaking part in the movie. Hitchcock agreed. Rod Taylor's character was named Mitch Brenner, and Mitch Zanich was given a speaking part. After Melanie is attacked by a seagull, Mitch Zanich can be heard saying "What happened, Mitch?" to Mitch Brenner.
In the book and ended up being all the damage caused to the planet from World War II disrupted the birds to the point where they were attacking based on whatever the tide went in or out. Of course the book was set in Europe.
Your comments were hilarious to me. Still, this movie totally creeped me out as a kid. I'm not sure what the writers were thinking, but I always thought the reason they didn't leave was maybe they weren't sure how widespread this problem was. I mean, they don't turn on the TV or radio until late in the movie. And maybe they thought it was a fluke that they'd stop at some point.
Once y'all are done with the Hitchcock films, please watch Mel Brooks' High Anxiety! It's his acknowledged tribute to Hitch, and is right up there with his best parodies. The tribute scene to The Birds is hilarious...and disgusting! lol
Force Of Light Entertainment I always thought it was odd that no one was put off by the age difference between the male lead and his sister, I have since heard a fan theory that she's actually his daughter and the schoolteacher was the mother, but they kept it secret because she was born out of wedlock.
This film needs historical consideration as overwrought, cheesy, mellow dramas were very big at the time. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, etc etc so the idea was to get the audience thinking this was one of those and then…half way through…absolutely turn it on its head! A modern day equivalent would be something like, From Dusk till Dawn.
I’m 62 now. I first saw the birds at home on TV when I was nine or 10 I think. I was scarede of birds for years! You’ve got to remember back in those days you didn’t see scary movies, or things that “could “possibly happen on TV that kids could see. It was deemed we were too young for the way our minds worked back then, because Most “middle-class kids”which I was, didn’t have any experience with that kind of violence yet of any sort on TV in the 60s. A lot of the people that love it now, watched it and we’re scared of it as kids. The reason I said ”middle class” kids, and the era is that there was violence in Vietnam and civil rights protests, etc. on the nightly news for half an hour every night. But back then most kids were made to go out and play until dark. Parents didn’t like them sitting in front of the TV all night. most of the neighborhood kids played together all the time and didn’t have to be in till dark, but we’re also known around the neighborhood and all the parents knew each other. Mothers mostly stayed home and we could go in any house if we needed help and all the mothers help keep an eye out. But ANYWAYS, so we didn’t even watch the news and if we had to be in because it was raining, we played a game because the news was boring to kids back then. Parents also didn’t talk in front of their kids about scary things going on in the world. It was a wonderful way to grow up to be honest, But now, with technology will never come again, probably. Anyway, that’s my thoughts on why a lot of reactors don’t think it’s that scary now, but it really was scary especially for kids back then. Great reaction!!
RE: "The Birds"; A: Speaking as a person who has learned English twice already (I moved to the UK in the 1980s for several years) in my heart of hearts I know that the title of the film is Hitchcock's tongue in cheek sense of humor, and the Birds could mean females as well as ornithoids. 10:20 for example. The main part of the plot has been revealed now for the first act, and it turns out our protagonist bird deliverer is interested in the lawyer-son who is deluged by females already. And don't get me started on his mother. Fun Fact! Obvious Symbols are Obvious. In "Psycho", one of the characters practices taxidermy on what animals?
I'd really like to recommend to you ladies to watch the Mel Brooks movie "High Anxiety". He combined a plethora of Hitchcock movie themes into one story. You'd enjoy it even more now that you have some Hitchcock under your belt. Thank you for your channel!
I don't think The Birds is synonymous with Alfred Hitchcock because people think its his best work, its more to do with the fact it has an odd premise, and thats what sticks in peoples minds. I agree with your review it takes too long to get going and then ends abruptly the pacing certainly isn't a masterclass. Personally my favourite two Hitchcock films are North by NorthWest and Psycho.
The mom is the Great Jessica Tandy. Most famous for the movies 1: Driving miss Daisy 2: fried green tomatoes. Tippy Heddrin is a animal activist, mother of Melonie Griffith. The age difference between siblings was lack of birth control. The birth control didn't come out as a regular use in the early 60 s. Because of no birth control my mom had 13 children. I'm the youngest my older siblings are 20 years older. My mom and oldest sister were both pregnant at the same time. I was an uncle when I was just a baby. ✌️❤️
“Plot is not primary for Hitchcock. The plot is just a line, upon which he hangs moments of cinematic poetry.”-Martin Scorsese. Makers of great films, I would call them masterpieces, know that the visual and aural journey takes primacy over the characters and even a logical storyline. A sublime and palpable experience of a poetic reality is the point. Lesser films strive to give you answers and satisfaction; Hitchcock, Tarkovsky, Lynch, and Kubrick know better.
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For a bit of trivia, the girl who plays Cathy is a young Veronica Cartwright who also plays Lambert in Alien. I think you justified your score but personally I think it's a 4. I wonder what you would make of Marnie or Vertigo?
She was also in the TV shows Daniel Boone and Leave it to Beaver. Her younger sister Angela was on The Danny Thomas Show, Lost in Space, and in The Sound of Music.
I really DO love Tippi Hedren's "No! NO!" at the end. Best one word dramatic acting since the little girl in "Them!". And have you watched "Birdemic" yet?
🐦 24 years after this movie came out, the the actress who played the little girl (Veronica Cartwright) gave a really great comical performance in "The Witches Of Eastwick" (1987), which is also a fun movie to watch at this time of the year. 😉👍
You ladies are young, but there used to be a time we didn't have to worry about strangers, believe it or not we kids played all over town all day. We left our door unlocked.
Ladies, you picked a good movie today, it is a true classic. The actress that plays the mother is Jessica Tandy the same actress that played in driving Miss Daisy. Plus you made comments about PG-13. They didn’t add that until later on when people would watch it in the future. For your next Alfred Hitchcock maybe try vertigo that’s an actually pretty good one.
I think my favorite scene was when mother visited her neighbor and found the house in shambles and him dead with eyes torn out and she tears out of there not a funny scene but I rolled when she fled
You have watched The Birds. Now you should watch The Burbs. Tom Hanks at his best. Lots of laughs, just a few jump scares and kind of a spooky theme. Another not so spooky one is Practical Magic with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.
Mel Brooks did a tribute movie to Alfred Hitchcock called High Anxiety. I hope you watch it.
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Shame you didn't like the first 40 odd mins, i prefer them in older films, they rarely build up or have character actors in modern films, You got Tippi hedren is melanie griffith mother, the young daughter is Veronica Cartwight who is the pilot in Alien, Hopefully you will watch To Catch a Thief around Christmas for a Hitchcock film with Grant & Kelly Don't think many of us would have caught this in theatres, lol
My theory is that Melanie's boat ride with the love birds in a cage was what first provoked them. They wanted to give humans a taste of their own medicine
Remember, birds are dinosaurs. Just think of this movie as an early Jurassic Park. By the way, bird's brains, and apparently dino brains in general, are/were wired a lot more efficiently - which is why parrots, crows, and ravens are so super-smart for the size of their brains.
My first Hitchcock movie, in 1965 or 66, when local TV stations showed movies on Saturday nights after the network signed off. I was in the 5thor 6th grade, and the whole preceding week it was the talk of the school yard. Oooo, The Birds! Oooo, Hitchcock! Oooo, scary!
The birds terrorizing the town is the predominant story, and the substories: Mitch and Melanie's blossoming relationship, Melanie's mother abandoning her and her history of acting out with her constant lying and pranking, Melanie's need for a mother, and Mitch's mother dealing with the loss of her husband. The characters in this movie are more interesting than the main story.
I'm with you on "The Birds;" it's for the birds. I never watched it as a kid because it seemed like a ridiculous premise. I did watch it later on and pretty much had the same sentiment; it was okay, but once is probably enough. Love the reactions though!
Did you miss Hitchcock's cameo when you were talking about his obsession with blondes? I read that he ruined Tippi Hedren's career because she refused his advances.
Most Would say the 1950s were really Hitchcock’s golden years. The big four for most film buffs are Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and North by Northwest.
We never looked at our feathered friend's the same way again after this the BIRDS 🐦🐦 one of the great thrillers i grew up watching . This was Tippi hedren's debut and yes there are stories of how traumatized she was filming this it does a slow burn and then the switch from a rom com to a horror thriller . i rank it as one of my favorites of Hitchcok's body of work and yes while Rear Window and Psycho are more effective in their delivery , i still enjoyed this one . Thanks for the reaction Michelle and Natalie And thank you for your force of light .
Fyi you know that the same time that this movie came out another movie came out called Charade. Charade is a movie considered the greatest Hitchcook movie that Hitchcook never made. You should see it, It is a nice comedy thriller movie. For another great fun action horror movie I recommand Van Helsin 2004.
Hi ladies! Happy Halloween week to you both! Hope all is well with you two beautiful ladies. I have always enjoyed Alfred Hitchcock's films and both this and "Psycho" are my favorites. I'm glad you both got the chance to watch and react to it. The actress in the lead is named Tippi Hedren. She was excellent in the film. Always enjoy your channel, ladies. Have a great rest of your week! Happy Halloween to you both! 👻🎃🍂
This is Hitchcock's weirdest movie. In the end, nothing is explained or resolved. Bodega Bay is a real place, about an hour and a half drive north of San Francisco. The mother was played by Jessica Tandy, who was 54 when the movie was made. She was 21 years older than Rod Taylor, which was old enough to be Rod Taylor's mother (especially in those days, when people became parents at a younger age than they usually do now). Tippi Hedren was the same age as Taylor. I do think they made Tandy look a bit older than she really was. Tandy was married to Hume Cronyn, and performed with him in many movies and plays. Veronica Cartwright, who played Cathy, was 19 years younger than Rod Taylor. In the movie she was supposed to be 11. In real life she was 14. The should have closed the damper in the fireplace. That would have been more effective and safer than keeping a fire going 24/7. They also should have kept the kids inside the schoolhouse, and Melanie shouldn't have opened that door. And, yes, they should have left town when things started to go wrong, not wait until things were really bad. Really, some of the decisions by the characters in this movie were pretty dumb. But that's how things usually are in horror movies. The scene at the gas station is pure Hitchcock. One of his favorite ways to create tension was to put characters in situations where they could see something terrible about to happen, but couldn't do anything about it. The series of still frames of Melanie watching the flames advance toward the gas station was brilliant. In the scene were Melanie is attacked in upstairs room, Hitchcock actually had live birds tied to Tippi Hedren, who got scratched up pretty badly.
This is my least favorite Hitchcock movie. But I still love it. I am a huge Hitchcock fan all time favorite director, there so many movies of his that are classics that it’s ridiculous. You just have to check them out. Dial M For Murder, Stranger On A Train, Shadow Of A Doubt, Catch A Thief, North By Northwest, and so many more that are much better than The Birds. Highly intelligent and clever movies, with a lot of humor
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Tippi Hedren is the mother of Melanie Griffith.
And speaking of Miss Hedren, the scene in the attic with the birds took a week to shoot. Those were real birds thrown at her and pecking at her. When she fell against the door she was exhausted from the experience and spent a few days recuperating from a nervous breakdown.
It like 3 birds max 💪🤠
Do American girls like big curls? Aww shit that rhymed. Just makes me think of, you should be in Charlie's Angels or some shit lol
Michelle, you wanted to know the name of that song the kids were singing at the school. My mom was a school music teacher and she taught a version of it. It's called The Wee Cooper of Fife. The version she taught went, "There was a wee Cooper who lived in Fife/ Nickety-nackety noo,noo,noo/ And he had gotten a gentle wife/ Hey Willie woe-wacky ho/ John Doogle-a lay/row rushity roo row row." Glad you were interested! Mom's been gone since December of '21 but I think she would have enjoyed teaching it to you.
great video and you are both very beautiful! Bodega Bay is a real place, it's northwest of the San Francisco Bay. I'm from the Bay Area and still live there! 🙂 The Tides restaurant -- where the gas tank explosion happens -- is still there! They did a bunch of renovations to the building, so it does not look the same, but the inside looks similar, and you can still go in and eat....they have a gift shop with a replica of how it looked when the movie was shot.
You can still visit the church, but the school from the movie is now private property, and if you approach, the property owners get upset and might call PD 😲
I definitely recommend a visit...the closest airport is actually not SFO but STS. That's Sonoma. But Sonoma is part of the San Francisco Bay Area (it's "the north bay" and also "wine country"). From the airport, you can drive to Sonoma, or there is also a bus. It's the Bay Area after all. You don't have to drive around here if you don't want to. I'm 46 and don't how to drive, because of the world class transit, lol. 🙂
They have an Alfred Hitchcock movie festival and a Birds festival every year! 🙂
Tippi Hedren is still alive and will be 95 in January 🎩
Force Of Light Entertainment When I was 14, I asked my father what the scariest movie was he ever watched and he said, "The Birds" and I asked him why and he said, "Because it could actually happen!".🐦🐦🐦💀😱🤣
Hitchock puts so many things in his movies that are supposed to hint at where it is going, that i found watching them many times gives me a fuller understanding. The Birds is one of those movies.
In 1963 I was the age of those kids in this movie. The hair styles and clothes are familiar, the men usually wore suits, and the adults all smoked. This still is one of my favorite movies, partly because of the suspense, and partly because it's from an era I remember that's long gone.
I was a freshman in 1968. When we went to the Freshmen Dining Hall for dinner, we were not admitted unless we had a suit coat and tie. I had a lab on Tuesdays which ended at 6 and I had to rush back to my room to change and get to the dinning hall before it closed at 6:30.
However, this was a year when everything changed. (Freshmen also had to wear a special beanie the first week, down from a full year in the past.) By the end of that year, guys were going to eat in shorts and a tee shirt, with the required coat and a tie loosely draped around their neck. The dress code ended for the next year.
There are many things from that era I fondly remember but also tons of things gladly discarded.
This was made Back in the Day when SUSPENSE was a GOOD thing! The story is very simple and even leaves you hanging as to the mystery of why The Birds went crazy but it was a major Hit and IS still a great CLASSIC in true Hitchcock style. Today they would have had everything here happen within 20 minutes. In 81, I was on the crew of a Tippi Hedren Disney film called ROAR. Her husband, film Producer Noel Marshall & their kids that included teen Melanie Griffith, who was still unknown were in the movie about their true family story of living at their big cat sanctuary in SoCal. SHAMBALA as it was called still exist. Then in her 40's Tippi was still FINE!
The little girl was Veronica Cartwright who also played Lambert in Alien (1979). She has a sister, Angela, who played Penny in Lost in Space and was one of the children in Sound of Music.
She looks more to her sister Angela Cartwright that played Penny in Lost in Space.
Oh that's why they looked alike.
The scene where Melanie is sitting on the bench when the birds gather and the children are singing is a masterclass of building suspense and is so eerie.
Also, the ending is perfect. No explanation for why the birds were attacking and it's left up to our imagination what will happen next. That's the best kind of horror, the fear of the unknown...
@@Cadinho93 brillant set design was that most of the birds/crows on the playground jungle gym were black cardboard cutouts.
I agree
I'm not entirely sure, but this might be the first film in the history that doesn't give the antagonist any kind of motive.
A true classic. Never gets old.
Her actions were not all that unusual in the 1950s. We didn't even have a lock on our door until late in the 70s. Good reaction.
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Rod Taylor also stars in the 1960 movie "The Time Machine" based on H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, it was one of the first movies about time travel and won an Oscar for best visual effects, check it out if you get a chance
Whenever Mitch speaks I can't not hear Pongo's voice from 101 Dalmatians lol
A great Australian actor. His last film role was as Winston Churchill in Tarantino’s Inglourious B.
That version of THE TIME MACHINE is the absolute best one. The movie holds up well 60 years later.
It's excellent. I have the DVD.
Rod Taylor starred in one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes And When the Sky Was Opened.
I saw it on TV in the mid-60s as a little kid and of course was freaked out. It played to a different generation, their fears; and never considered the whole Rod, Suzanne, Tippy, Mom expectation quadrangle tension going-on but at the end you see Mom looking down at Tippy sympathetically. You’re led to believe the whole shared trauma will work out to an eventual happy ever after scenario. Doubtful that sub-text would be as clear today. A great time capsule though.
I think he was trying for some misdirection with the first 45 minutes being kinda of boy meets girl type movie and then little hints are being thrown with random bird attacks. One of my favorites. Gotta remember the year it was made was 1963. Lots of changes in 61 years.
In that 45 minutes, he also introduced all the key people and locations so it is always clear to the viewer who each is, where everyone is and how far it is from other locations. It's a good old filmmaking that respects the basics things.
He did the same with Psycho, about her stealing the money and the cop keeping an eye on her.
Tippi Hedren and the teacher is Susan Pleshette. The little girl is Veroncia Cartwirght who played Joan in Alien. The grand ma is Jessica Tandy al al Driving Miss Daisy
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Actually, Veronica Cartwright's character in "Alien" is Lambert.
Tandy was also in Fried Green Tomatoes.
Susan was most famous for playing Bob Newhart's wife in the 1970's Bob Newhart Show. She also made a cameo in the last episode of the Newhart show where Bob woke up from the terrible nightmare of being an innkeeper in Vermont with a different blonde wife, ie. the entire run of the 1980s TV series. It was a brilliant example of Bob's warped sense of humor.
Jessica was 54, Rod and Tippy were 33, and Veronica was 14 the year this film came out.
Such a classic animal horror film! Poor Tippi Hedren had to go through a lot, especially the final scene when all of the birds attack her ☠
Great reaction, as always!
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It’s important to remember times were different back in these older films.
* People didn’t always lock their doors back then. It also wasn’t uncommon for people to just walk into someone’s home after a quick knock.
* Peoples phone numbers and addresses were public information via Phone Books. In other words, it wouldn’t be odd to give someone that information.
We even had a town directory that had phone number, address, parents names, occupations, and children's names. Didn't think anything of it.
The genius of this film is that it does start out like a romantic comedy which makes it even more unsettling when that all shifts
It's old fashioned in that the action and horror serve to show character development. That's why the movie is "slow" at first to a modern audience. The movie isn't about "how realistically can we depict gruesome killings" and more about the war of the sexes (humankind's complicated mating ritual) in the first 45 minutes. Then, like 'Psycho' abrupt change in tone. Too bad the gorgeous California scenery bored you.
@@Sirala6 Amen!
I wonder if the zeitgeist back in that time period was one of less suspiciousness than more recently.
What young people do not get is there was no internet, many small towns only had a theatre, nothing else, so when they got a baby sitter went to a movie, they loved the movie being long, they weren't getting text messages and watching youtube, lol. P.S. I agree, I never cared much for The Birds, but some people from that era really loved it.
What I like about the movie is the lack of an explanation. Why are the birds attacking? What happens next? I love unanswered questions.
Ladies, you both look Beautiful this morning! So this movie traumatized me as a kid in the 60's. It got a lot of tv time back in the day. Holy moly! Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks for watching!
Jessica Tandy, that plays Mitch's mom, was 54 years old, when this movie was made. Rot Taylor was 21 years younger than her.
According to a Sept 2016 article on the website the ultimate rabbit:
“The Birds” actually marked Hedren’s film debut as an actress.
Hitchcock saw Hedren in a diet soda commercial, and this led him to cast her in the movie. This opportunity came at a crucial time for Hedren as she had just moved back to Los Angeles with her daughter Melanie Griffith and was experiencing some problems.
“My daughter was presented with a box when Hitchcock took us to lunch, and it was a wooden box and Melanie opened it and it was an incredible doll of me in the green suit that I wore in ‘The Birds,’” Hedren said. “The face was so perfect that it scared her to the point where she kind of freaked out. Everybody made it sound like it was Hitchcock playing a dirty trick or doing something really nasty to Melanie and that wasn’t it. It was supposed be a very, very beautiful gift and it just went awry. She was so affected by it that it was put away somewhere, and I unfortunately don’t even know what happened to it.”
Back in the early sixties, a lot of people never locked their doors. Crime wasn’t as prevalent as it is today, we had about half the people today and a strong middle class. The tax rates rose as your income rose, topping off at 91% if you had no deductions. A single income could support a family.
The movie rating system was implemented in 1968. The original ratings were G , GP, M (mature ), R, and X. Movies before this can be given ratings from the current system based on the MPAA review of the film
The scene where Tippi Hedren was being attacked by the birds, actually traumatized her. There were live birds attached to her with strings so they couldn’t get away.
When I was growing up in the 70s this was often on TV so it was my real introduction to Hitchcock abd though it was based on a book there was a real incident in 1961 that inspired Hitchcock to make the movie the the California town of Capitola was bombarded by seabirds that had become disoriented and crashed into buildings and cars
When I saw that you two were doing a reaction to The Birds, I knew right away that Michelle was going to get mad at certain people for their stupidity so I had to check it out. She didn’t disappoint. :)
Yes Tippi Hendren, she is also in Marnie with Sean Connery it's a Hitchcock movie
5:10........It was a different time back then, ladies. People were more honest, less devious and twisted than they are today.
Veronica Cartwright who play Cathy will play in another great suspens movie later : Alien. Rod Taylor (Mitch) was one of the favorite actor of my dad since he see him in the 60's adaptation of "The Time Machine".
I think Hitchcock wanted to experiment something with this film. It made it just after psycho, which was an experimentation too. He wanted to put his obsession in a situation of pure suspens. No one psychokiller or something else but just the nature which become dangerous. I like there isn't explanation of why the birds kills. I like this part of mystery where you can imagine what you want. But you also can see the movie like a fantastic movie, where the birds are the materialization of the frustrations of the characters.
Times have changed. Horror has changed.
Always love how nice everyone dresses and the colors in Hitchcock movies, seen this many times, Rod Taylor always a favorite, I like how Tarantino put him in Inglorious Bastards as Churchill shortly before he died, thanks Yall!
1:36 they didn’t have movie ratings at all at the time. Anything from before 1969 is either not rated or has been given a rating retroactively
This film seems outlandish but read about what happened to Capitola California in 1961. Alfred Hitchcock visited nearby Santa Cruz and read about it.
I haven't seen this for close to 35 years and i am only 41. 😮
See you guys are young. Back in the day, you could trust people more. There was a lot less of a chance of getting hurt by someone. Especially in a place like that.
Thanks for your reaction! I highly recommend other Hitchcock films:
North by Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rebecca (1940)
Notorious (1946)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
I've never understood how, at the end, they had a choice between Melanie's sports car and a truck. Mitch had that 1963 Ford Galaxie that he was driving in the city. That's a heavy full sized car, with heavy duty windows, and room for all of them. Where was it?
Good question
I agree that this is not Hitchcock’s best though it does have some great shots. I would really recommend Rebecca (1940) and Notorious(1944). I think you guys will enjoy them a lot more !!
His mom played the old women in *Fried Green Tomatoes* and in *Diving Miss Daisy* she was like 54 in this movie and Rod Taylor (son Mitch) was like 33. So, meet "Idgie" when she was young.
When that gas station blew up, I exclaimed, full Yoda, “Begun, the bird war has”
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@ and you should do Vertigo… maybe my favorite Hitchcock
Opening the door ----- the first recorded " dumb blonde " moment 😂
This was Hitchcock's third Daphne du Maurier novel he made a film out of. Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Both good films from the 30s and 40s.
That is a fully reproduced set replica of a very famous pet shop in San Francisco.
Older films were slower.
Attention spans have gradually shortened over time. 👆👆👆👆
We watch older movies a lot. This movie just didn’t captivate as much as some of his others in the beginning:)
It is indeed depressing how little patience audiences have now--and how quick they are to draw conclusions or expect instant answers, believing they are ahead of the movie based on formulaic genre expectations. Movie watching has become express lane shopping rather than settling in for a ride that goes at its own distinct pace.
According to a May 2021 article on the website Grunge:
"Roar"(1981) is probably considered one of the most dangerous films ever made. It was very much a family picture - literally. It starred Tippi Hedren with her husband, Noel Marshall (who also wrote, directed, and produced the film)
"Among those injured on the set included Hedren and her family. Hedren had to get 38 stitches after being bitten by a lion and also endured a fractured leg and multiple scalp wounds. Her husband was injured so many times he ended up in the hospital for gangrene. Daughter Melanie was mauled so badly by a lion that she needed facial reconstructive surgery. The movie's filming was supposed to take only nine months, but the entire project ended up taking five years to complete. According to The Week, Roar cost $17 million to make, and the movie only made $2 million after it was finally released."
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The mother, played by Jessica Tandy, was 54 yrs old at the time of this movie. The right age for having a full grown son at the time. Her son would have been about 35.
Nice reaction ladies. You know, Disney did that last shot where all the birds were roosting on the front lawn. Most of them were animatronic. Very impressive.
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I hope you've got Hitch's Other Mother movie on the horizon: MARNIE also stars Tippi Hedren. And Sean Connery.
TO CATCH A THIEF (1954) with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. North by Northwest (1958) with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. Vertigo (1958) with James Stewart and Kim Novak.
I think we cheat ourselves of fully enjoying a films story and its characters if we constantly think how we’d do things differently. That’s probably not how the storyteller meant it to be interpreted. We all do this from time to time don’t we.
We watch and rewatch films because we enjoy them. It’s the journey the film takes us on that we remember.
I think the movie doesn't translate well to small screens. A lot of these movies were made specifically for the big screen. When you see these movies on the big screen it almost feels like 3D and you feel your there the long beginning I think was Hitchcock trying to get you to know and like the charters before the bad happens otherwise no one would care what happened you had nothing invested in the characters.✌️❤️
"Don't they ever stop migrating?"
Now that you've seen this movie, I highly suggest Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes (1978) get on your list. It (and its immediate sequel) is on Tubi right now.
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of actress Darlene Conley.
Practical Wardrobe Fact: Melanie wears the same green suit throughout the movie, so Tippi Hedren was provided with six identical green suits for the shoot.
Get Them Off Fact: The scene where Melanie (Tippi Hedren) is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to her clothes by long nylon threads so they could not get away.
Premiere Shenanigans Fact: When audiences left the U.K. premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further.
Bird Wrangler Fact: Sir Alfred Hitchcock revealed on The Dick Cavett Show (1968) that 3,200 birds were trained for the movie. He said the ravens were the cleverest, and the seagulls were the most vicious. Rod Taylor claims that the seagulls were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much.
Location Location Fact: Mitch Zanich, owner of the Tides Restaurant at the time of shooting, told Sir Alfred Hitchcock he could shoot there if the lead male in the movie was named after him and Hitchcock gave him a speaking part in the movie. Hitchcock agreed. Rod Taylor's character was named Mitch Brenner, and Mitch Zanich was given a speaking part. After Melanie is attacked by a seagull, Mitch Zanich can be heard saying "What happened, Mitch?" to Mitch Brenner.
In the book and ended up being all the damage caused to the planet from World War II disrupted the birds to the point where they were attacking based on whatever the tide went in or out. Of course the book was set in Europe.
that's our cue: a bombshell blonde wearing a striking green dress...Vertigo, anyone?
Your comments were hilarious to me. Still, this movie totally creeped me out as a kid. I'm not sure what the writers were thinking, but I always thought the reason they didn't leave was maybe they weren't sure how widespread this problem was. I mean, they don't turn on the TV or radio until late in the movie. And maybe they thought it was a fluke that they'd stop at some point.
Once y'all are done with the Hitchcock films, please watch Mel Brooks' High Anxiety! It's his acknowledged tribute to Hitch, and is right up there with his best parodies. The tribute scene to The Birds is hilarious...and disgusting! lol
Force Of Light Entertainment I always thought it was odd that no one was put off by the age difference between the male lead and his sister, I have since heard a fan theory that she's actually his daughter and the schoolteacher was the mother, but they kept it secret because she was born out of wedlock.
This film needs historical consideration as overwrought, cheesy, mellow dramas were very big at the time. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, etc etc so the idea was to get the audience thinking this was one of those and then…half way through…absolutely turn it on its head! A modern day equivalent would be something like, From Dusk till Dawn.
I’m 62 now. I first saw the birds at home on TV when I was nine or 10 I think. I was scarede of birds for years! You’ve got to remember back in those days you didn’t see scary movies, or things that “could “possibly happen on TV that kids could see. It was deemed we were too young for the way our minds worked back then, because Most “middle-class kids”which I was, didn’t have any experience with that kind of violence yet of any sort on TV in the 60s. A lot of the people that love it now, watched it and we’re scared of it as kids.
The reason I said ”middle class” kids, and the era is that there was violence in Vietnam and civil rights protests, etc. on the nightly news for half an hour every night. But back then most kids were made to go out and play until dark. Parents didn’t like them sitting in front of the TV all night. most of the neighborhood kids played together all the time and didn’t have to be in till dark, but we’re also known around the neighborhood and all the parents knew each other. Mothers mostly stayed home and we could go in any house if we needed help and all the mothers help keep an eye out.
But ANYWAYS, so we didn’t even watch the news and if we had to be in because it was raining, we played a game because the news was boring to kids back then. Parents also didn’t talk in front of their kids about scary things going on in the world. It was a wonderful way to grow up to be honest, But now, with technology will never come again, probably.
Anyway, that’s my thoughts on why a lot of reactors don’t think it’s that scary now, but it really was scary especially for kids back then. Great reaction!!
RE: "The Birds"; A: Speaking as a person who has learned English twice already (I moved to the UK in the 1980s for several years) in my heart of hearts I know that the title of the film is Hitchcock's tongue in cheek sense of humor, and the Birds could mean females as well as ornithoids. 10:20 for example. The main part of the plot has been revealed now for the first act, and it turns out our protagonist bird deliverer is interested in the lawyer-son who is deluged by females already. And don't get me started on his mother.
Fun Fact! Obvious Symbols are Obvious. In "Psycho", one of the characters practices taxidermy on what animals?
I'd really like to recommend to you ladies to watch the Mel Brooks movie "High Anxiety". He combined a plethora of Hitchcock movie themes into one story. You'd enjoy it even more now that you have some Hitchcock under your belt. Thank you for your channel!
9:13 She was 54 here. IMDB is a fantastic reference to use.
Don’t forget this was 1963. Directors weren’t in a hurry to get to the main plot.
I don't think The Birds is synonymous with Alfred Hitchcock because people think its his best work, its more to do with the fact it has an odd premise, and thats what sticks in peoples minds. I agree with your review it takes too long to get going and then ends abruptly the pacing certainly isn't a masterclass. Personally my favourite two Hitchcock films are North by NorthWest and Psycho.
The mom is the Great Jessica Tandy. Most famous for the movies 1: Driving miss Daisy 2: fried green tomatoes. Tippy Heddrin is a animal activist, mother of Melonie Griffith. The age difference between siblings was lack of birth control. The birth control didn't come out as a regular use in the early 60 s. Because of no birth control my mom had 13 children. I'm the youngest my older siblings are 20 years older. My mom and oldest sister were both pregnant at the same time. I was an uncle when I was just a baby. ✌️❤️
This started as a fun rom-com, then the birds attacked! I avoid showing my birds this movie, don’t want them getting any ideas!
“Plot is not primary for Hitchcock. The plot is just a line, upon which he hangs moments of cinematic poetry.”-Martin Scorsese. Makers of great films, I would call them masterpieces, know that the visual and aural journey takes primacy over the characters and even a logical storyline. A sublime and palpable experience of a poetic reality is the point. Lesser films strive to give you answers and satisfaction; Hitchcock, Tarkovsky, Lynch, and Kubrick know better.
Just to clarify: the actress's name is Trippy Headroom
Tappi Ballroom.
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At 2:30 . . I do not have any more love birds for sale,
How about just a couple of casual acquaintance birds ? 🐤🐤
That is a amazing movie, i was scared as a child and the REDHEAD is super fine bella bella
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For a bit of trivia, the girl who plays Cathy is a young Veronica Cartwright who also plays Lambert in Alien. I think you justified your score but personally I think it's a 4. I wonder what you would make of Marnie or Vertigo?
Thanks, I was going to look that up. Was pretty sure that was Cartwright.
She was also in the TV shows Daniel Boone and Leave it to Beaver. Her younger sister Angela was on The Danny Thomas Show, Lost in Space, and in The Sound of Music.
@@UncleDeadly We will have to watch and find out!
Thaaaa Burts. They had a lot of trouble making this one I think, which one could easily foresee...you don't even need an eagle eye view
Tippi Hedren is still alive she's 94.
I really DO love Tippi Hedren's "No! NO!" at the end. Best one word dramatic acting since the little girl in "Them!".
And have you watched "Birdemic" yet?
🐦 24 years after this movie came out, the the actress who played the little girl (Veronica Cartwright) gave a really great comical performance in "The Witches Of Eastwick" (1987), which is also a fun movie to watch at this time of the year. 😉👍
You ladies are young, but there used to be a time we didn't have to worry about strangers, believe it or not we kids played all over town all day. We left our door unlocked.
Ladies, you picked a good movie today, it is a true classic. The actress that plays the mother is Jessica Tandy the same actress that played in driving Miss Daisy. Plus you made comments about PG-13. They didn’t add that until later on when people would watch it in the future. For your next Alfred Hitchcock maybe try vertigo that’s an actually pretty good one.
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I think my favorite scene was when mother visited her neighbor and found the house in shambles and him dead with eyes torn out and she tears out of there not a funny scene but I rolled when she fled
I'll tell you this, this movie scared the hell out of everyone! Ever time we saw a bird it was like noooooo!!!
You have watched The Birds. Now you should watch The Burbs. Tom Hanks at his best. Lots of laughs, just a few jump scares and kind of a spooky theme. Another not so spooky one is Practical Magic with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.
Mel Brooks did a tribute movie to Alfred Hitchcock called High Anxiety. I hope you watch it.
Shame you didn't like the first 40 odd mins, i prefer them in older films, they rarely build up or have character actors in modern films,
You got Tippi hedren is melanie griffith mother, the young daughter is Veronica Cartwight who is the pilot in Alien,
Hopefully you will watch To Catch a Thief around Christmas for a Hitchcock film with Grant & Kelly
Don't think many of us would have caught this in theatres, lol
Hitchcock punished Tippi Hedren with those birds at the end. He did it because she turned him down in secret. True story.
My theory is that Melanie's boat ride with the love birds in a cage was what first provoked them. They wanted to give humans a taste of their own medicine
Remember, birds are dinosaurs. Just think of this movie as an early Jurassic Park.
By the way, bird's brains, and apparently dino brains in general, are/were wired a lot more efficiently - which is why parrots, crows, and ravens are so super-smart for the size of their brains.
My first Hitchcock movie, in 1965 or 66, when local TV stations showed movies on Saturday nights after the network signed off. I was in the 5thor 6th grade, and the whole preceding week it was the talk of the school yard. Oooo, The Birds! Oooo, Hitchcock! Oooo, scary!
The birds terrorizing the town is the predominant story, and the substories: Mitch and Melanie's blossoming relationship, Melanie's mother abandoning her and her history of acting out with her constant lying and pranking, Melanie's need for a mother, and Mitch's mother dealing with the loss of her husband. The characters in this movie are more interesting than the main story.
I'm with you on "The Birds;" it's for the birds. I never watched it as a kid because it seemed like a ridiculous premise. I did watch it later on and pretty much had the same sentiment; it was okay, but once is probably enough. Love the reactions though!
Did you miss Hitchcock's cameo when you were talking about his obsession with blondes?
I read that he ruined Tippi Hedren's career because she refused his advances.
Most Would say the 1950s were really Hitchcock’s golden years. The big four for most film buffs are Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and North by Northwest.
We never looked at our feathered friend's the same way again after this the BIRDS 🐦🐦 one of the great thrillers i grew up watching .
This was Tippi hedren's debut and yes there are stories of how traumatized she was filming this
it does a slow burn and then the switch from a rom com to a horror thriller .
i rank it as one of my favorites of Hitchcok's body of work and yes while Rear Window and Psycho are more effective in their delivery , i still enjoyed this one .
Thanks for the reaction Michelle and Natalie
And thank you for your force of light .
Fyi you know that the same time that this movie came out another movie came out called Charade. Charade is a movie considered the greatest Hitchcook movie that Hitchcook never made. You should see it, It is a nice comedy thriller movie. For another great fun action horror movie I recommand Van Helsin 2004.
Hi ladies! Happy Halloween week to you both! Hope all is well with you two beautiful ladies. I have always enjoyed Alfred Hitchcock's films and both this and "Psycho" are my favorites. I'm glad you both got the chance to watch and react to it. The actress in the lead is named Tippi Hedren. She was excellent in the film. Always enjoy your channel, ladies. Have a great rest of your week! Happy Halloween to you both! 👻🎃🍂
Thank you! You too! 🎃
Strangers on a Train is a great Hitchcock movie or Vertigo two of his best.
This is Hitchcock's weirdest movie. In the end, nothing is explained or resolved.
Bodega Bay is a real place, about an hour and a half drive north of San Francisco.
The mother was played by Jessica Tandy, who was 54 when the movie was made. She was 21 years older than Rod Taylor, which was old enough to be Rod Taylor's mother (especially in those days, when people became parents at a younger age than they usually do now). Tippi Hedren was the same age as Taylor. I do think they made Tandy look a bit older than she really was. Tandy was married to Hume Cronyn, and performed with him in many movies and plays.
Veronica Cartwright, who played Cathy, was 19 years younger than Rod Taylor. In the movie she was supposed to be 11. In real life she was 14.
The should have closed the damper in the fireplace. That would have been more effective and safer than keeping a fire going 24/7. They also should have kept the kids inside the schoolhouse, and Melanie shouldn't have opened that door. And, yes, they should have left town when things started to go wrong, not wait until things were really bad. Really, some of the decisions by the characters in this movie were pretty dumb. But that's how things usually are in horror movies.
The scene at the gas station is pure Hitchcock. One of his favorite ways to create tension was to put characters in situations where they could see something terrible about to happen, but couldn't do anything about it. The series of still frames of Melanie watching the flames advance toward the gas station was brilliant.
In the scene were Melanie is attacked in upstairs room, Hitchcock actually had live birds tied to Tippi Hedren, who got scratched up pretty badly.
North by Northwest is my favorite Hitchcock movie hopefully you’ll react to it, thanks yall
This is my least favorite Hitchcock movie. But I still love it. I am a huge Hitchcock fan all time favorite director, there so many movies of his that are classics that it’s ridiculous. You just have to check them out. Dial M For Murder, Stranger On A Train, Shadow Of A Doubt, Catch A Thief, North By Northwest, and so many more that are much better than The Birds. Highly intelligent and clever movies, with a lot of humor
It's my favorite Hitchcock film. I first saw it, as a kid, on TV in the late 60's or early 70's.