Didn’t know quite what to expect, but it was excellent. Have a few questions: Is the house portrayed as his in the movie his real house? Will this movie have any appeal to those who did not grow up with him and his work? Lastly, and if there is limted age-related appeal, are the financial expectations of FOX adjusted in advance? Again, great movie. I hardly moved in my seat for the 2 hours.
Part of me really wants to see this film, but I just recently saw the HBO movie, “The Girl” about Hitchcock and sort of feel like, “been there, seen that”. It is unfair of me to think this, but the previews of the film look almost exactly like that HBO film.
I wonder if that HBO movie took the thunder out of the box office for this film?
I’ve seem both. They are both great, but I think that Hitchcock is a little better. If anything seeing the HBO movie made Hitchcock a bit more enjoyable.
Regarding the last question in the OP about the studio’s expectations, I think it’s worth pointing out that Hitchcock is produced by Fox Searchlight. This is the specialty-film arm of the larger 20th Century Fox studio. The movies produced by Searchlight (and similar companies such as Sony Pictures Classics and Focus Features [part of NBC Universal]) are made on smaller budgets with the company executives’ full knowledge that they aren’t going to be big moneymakers. These smaller divisions tend to focus more on prestige or company branding when it comes to the movies they make and distribute.
Of course, if Hitchcock had grossed $100 million dollars, Searchlight execs would have wept with joy, since they’ve only produced six movies in their entire company history that have grossed over $50 million. But if Helen Mirren gets an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, they will consider that a satisfactory return on their investment. They were under no illusions about the movie’s box office potential, or lack thereof.
I’m trying to figure out if I’m the only person to have seen “Hitchcock” without ever having seen “Psycho.” Still, a really enjoyable film for me with some quite-good acting.
The wife of Psycho’s screenwriter is pissed.
Wait? Biopic is not entirely accurate in representation of facts? I’m shocked.
Next you’ll tell me that Hitchcock didn’t have hallucinatory conversations with Ed Gein!
Agree or don’t but her viewpoint is that is goes far beyond poetic license to libel.
For a screenwriter’s wife, she doesn’t seem to know much about cinematic shorthand. (Yes, I understand she’s talking libel, but I’m not seeing the libel there. She doesn’t seem to deny that her husband did, indeed, see a shrink daily.)
So who wants to tell Mrs. Stefano that 30 seconds on Wikipedia would have told her that Marion is killed off very early in the book and that the “slashed letters” cover is the original first edition cover of the book?