Film Techniques In The Birds

The Hitchcock film titled ‘The Birds’ is set in Bodega Bay, California. For no apparent reason, as soon as a woman arrives in the area, birds have been attacking the residents, and causing death and destruction. In one scene, where Melanie Daniels (portrayed by Tippi Hedren) is stuck inside a house alongside Mitch Brenner (portrayed by Rod Taylor), and his mother Lydia, and his younger sister Cathy, trying to protect themselves from another relentless wave of bird attacks.

     The Birds, the movie was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and was based on the short story “The Birds” written by Daphne du Murrier. If you would have read the book and then watched the movie, you would see that very few things are the same. In both the short story and the movie flocks of gulls, robins, crows, and sparrows join each other. This is really weird because different species of birds never work together. The story and the film both have the same climate. It is cold and chilly; “the ground is frozen and it will be a black winter.” The climate gives the versions of the story a creepy and suspenseful feeling.

Psychologists have suggested the idea that correlation does not imply causation. In The Birds, viewers find themselves unable to identify the purpose or the cause for the birds’ attacks. Hitchcock does not want us to know the answers either, since Hitchcock marvels at his ability to make viewers question his films and struggle at truly enjoying without fully understanding them. Although this essay cannot find a cause for the attacks in the town or to the characters that seem to be innocent like the children and the old man in the farm, it should shed some light on the correlation between the timing of the attacks near the Brenner family and Melanie and their internal struggle. The symbolism of the caged birds versus the free birds, the Jocasta complex Lydia struggles with, and the imagery of the light versus darkness when the birds attack represent the journey Mitch and Melanie face in trying to be together.

This essay is a comparison between the short story, “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1952, and the 1963 film, The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. The story, in brief, was about a man named Nat, and his family. They lived on a farm and had to protect themselves in their house when the bird population spontaneously attacks. Although du Maurier’s story and Hitchcock’s film portray the same major conflict and theme, the other major story elements are very different.

In A Worn Path by Eudora Welty Phoenix Jackson’s seems to in a phase of daydream and the real world. Miss. Jackson’s encounters with the dog, the young hunter, bird’s especially…quail, and the ghostly scarecrow. These four symbols seem to play more than just close calls with death. The first encounter that Jackson, comes across are birds these creatures change throughout the story and are motifs particularly the quail. Usually the type of quail is hunted, for its meat and eggs this could as mean that Miss. Jackson is being hunted, but also being watched from above.

“Birds bring beauty into the world,” Mrs, Bundy tells a distraught Melanie Daniels. But do they? In the film,”The Birds,” directed by Albert Hitchcock, Melanie Daniels chase's lawyer Mitch Brenner to the small town of Bodega Bay, gifting him a pair of lovebirds for his sister. Melanie however, gets caught up in the rampant bird problem that plagues the town when she arrives. Hitchcock creates suspense in the movie by using the element of dramatic irony, in order to instill a sense of helplessness into the audience as they watch disaster unfold before the characters of the picture.

The Transformations of Pigeons and Hawks On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan, is an award-winning, controversial film that portrays the symbols of hawks and pigeons. Pigeons are seen as weak and fragile animals. Hawks, on the other hand, have eyes on the side of their head and see everything around them. They are the birds on top of the food chain.

Theodora as a woman is everything that Eleanor is not: Bold, confident, and outgoing. As a character, she and Eleanor’s views of family differ drastically. She is the only character in the novel who doesn’t have a last name, which suggests how much of a free spirit she is. All the other main characters have last names and are in some way controlled by their families: Eleanor practically has to steal the car she and her sister share to get by her family’s restrictive rules, Luke is only at Hill House because his aunt forced him to go, and Doctor Montague’s wife walks all over him. On the other hand, Theodora is completely free of family and all the obligations that come with it. She isn’t tied down to a family or a home and has a distaste for family life, the complete opposite of everything Eleanor desires and needs in her life. When Eleanor asks Theodora if she can move in with her, Theodora promptly turns her

Daniels, the main character, had brought the love birds to Bodega Bay, the local birds had started to act very strange. In the film one of the town’s people had said to Ms. Daniels “Ever since you came to bodega bay this happened, you’re evil!” The director wanted to view this as one of the many major clues on why the birds attacked, This and all of the other turning points are important details to a reader breaking down the story. Also, the film had a better understanding of character development. In the film at the beginning Ms. Daniels had took time to deliver the birds to Mr. Brenner and spend time with him and his family.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a bird and it doesn’t look too happy. The Birds is a classic story that takes place in Bodega Bay that is one day unexpectedly and strategically attacked by the entire bird population in the area. Alfred Hitchcock’s film, “The Birds” better utilizes suspense compared to Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds” because it shows the birds destruction and harm, the sudden hardship of the animal, and the use of words and angles.

Birds is a book that was originally thought of by Dauphne Du Maurier as a horror story in 1963, later that same year being turned into a horror movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Though the movie was created as a recreation of the book, it holds many differences that are highly noticeable. Possibly one of the strongest differences between the book and movie, is the characters names as well as how they affect the plot; in the book, the main character’s name is Net who does not seem like the type of guy to go too much out of his comfort zone or socialize with anyone without reasoning while Melanie, the main character in the movie was outgoing and very social. Also, throughout the movie more characters as well as settings were introduced creating

  In my opinion, birds bring a lot more to our lives than we think they do. They bring peace and serendipity. Within the film, this brings the viewer a chance to see that there

signify some repressed anger toward her parents. The lack of love from both parents, has left

The short story "The Birds" was written by Daphne du Maurrier and was filmed and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It has a very interesting and suspenseful plot. The short story was well written and the film was well played, both are very similar. Although, they have a few differences the film and short story have the same mood and theme. Would the differences in the film and the short story affect the suspenseful and frightening plot?Alfred Hitchcock did an outstanding job filming the movie matching it with the short story. In both the short story and film flocks and flocks of gulls, robins, and sparrows join each other.

Birds have beautiful feathers and lovely songs that bring joy and wonder to us humans. And flight is the feature that probably captures the human imagination more than anything else. For millennia, people have watched birds in the sky and wished we could fly, too.