foreword Master of Suspense Hitchcock What is suspense?Hitchcock once gave a famous definition of suspense: If you want to show a group of people playing cards around a table, and then there is a sudden explosion, then you can only shoot a very dull scene after the explosion.On the other hand, although you are showing the same scene, but before the card game starts, show the time bomb under the table, then you create suspense and pull the audience's heart. In fact, Hitchcock's works don't just rely on suspense to attract people, their connotation is much deeper.Hitchcock has a deep understanding of the human psychological world.

As a master character, Hitchcock's views on human nature are quite calm, even very cold, and he pointed out the absurdity of modern society mercilessly. Most of the characters in his works are perverted, afflicted by anxiety, guilt, hatred or lust, and Hitchcock has a long-lasting interest in abnormal psychology. Hitchcock's comment on the massacre is typical of his attitude towards such people. He said: "People often think that criminals are very different from ordinary people. But as far as my personal experience is concerned, , criminals are usually pretty mediocre people and very boring, they are more featureless and less interesting than the law-abiding common people we meet in our daily life. Criminals are actually some pretty stupid people , Their motives are often very simple and vulgar." Hitchcock believed that people are very fragile and they cannot withstand temptation.

John Arden, commenting on the middle class, said: "Their natural qualities of openness and kindness were never severely tested. Once they were tested, they fell apart." Hitchcock also believes that people's decency and kindness may be innate, but they often cannot withstand severe tests. So in Hitchcock's works, we can see the tempted souls gradually take off the cloak of humanity and slide into the abyss of crime. The structure of Hitchcock's works is ingenious, which is recognized by the world, so that a "Hitchcock mode" is formed: the ending of the story is twists and turns, thrilling and unexpected, and there are many black humorous scenes in it.

The works of Borges, the master of postmodernism literature, have always been known for their exquisite structure, but compared with him, some works of Hitchcock are even worse. We can say without exaggeration that Hitchcock's works can be used as a model for writing.Friends who are interested in creating can learn a lot from it.Wen is like a man, Hitchcock can become a master of art, which has a lot to do with his personality.Hitchcock had a strange sense of fear about life. He believes that scary things lurk not only in the shadows, or when we are alone, but sometimes, when we are with decent and friendly people, we can also feel very lonely, dangerous and isolated.In addition, deep in Hitchcock's heart, there is always an inexplicable anxiety, a feeling of despair.When his film "Destroyer" was screened for the first time, the subtitle of "Beware of Someone Behind" was added to the advertisement. Doubt and fear.

This feeling of his originated from childhood.Hitchcock's childhood was strangely withdrawn.All his memories of his childhood are: loneliness; due to age difference, he couldn't get along with his elder brother and sister; he kept his parents at a respectful distance; As a child, Hitchcock was curious and interested in things like murder and poisoning.He is fascinated by the omnipresent evil reality.He believes that the world is full of evil, which cannot be escaped, and he is afraid and appreciative of this.Through art, Hitchcock had many opportunities to explore the strange side of human behavior.

The reason why Hitchcock's later works have good effects is mostly because he always put unusual events in ordinary life scenes, thus forming a sharp contrast. The peculiar theme of Hitchcock's art is usually considered a kind of suspense, but, more accurately, he said, it is a kind of anxiety.Even when he was a grown man, he was often candid about having an endless supply of absurd worries.For example, he was so terrified of dealing with the police that when he arrived in the United States, he hardly dared to drive out.On one occasion, he was driving to Northern California only to be terrified by throwing a cigarette butt that might not have been fully extinguished out of the car.Hitchcock was an elusive man.He is very well-known, almost to the extent of being a household name, but very few people really know him.

Although he is in the vanity fair, he lives in isolation, afraid of strangers, and spends all day at home with books, photos, wife, puppy, daughter, and a few close friends. He may be eccentric and incomprehensible, but at least one thing is certain: he was a man of art.His main concern is making a masterpiece, not making money (although the money will roll in with it).Hitchcock does not attend all kinds of social gatherings, and does not hang out with coquettish actresses.In addition to filming, he is indeed single-minded.Someone asked him what he would do, or would like to do in his life, if he were given the freedom to choose his career, and he replied: "I don't know, I love painting, but I can't paint.

I love to read, but I'm not a writer.I only know how to make films.I'm never quitting Shadowlands, other than that.What else can I do? "Hitchcock put all his energies into preparing the film, he planned everything down to the last detail, and he worked with all his attention and dedication to realize his plan. For Hitchcock, the film seems to be such a means that it can make people who are terrified and often afflicted by inexplicable guilt and anxiety get rid of their inner pain through the director's ingenious arrangement of the characters in the play .For Hitchcock, cinema seems to be a tool, that is, to temporarily dominate and possess people spiritually where he recognizes that people need him.

Judging from the films he directed and some cynical statements, he is often seen as a misanthrope, and especially as a misogynist.Yet those who worked with him tended to describe him as the kindest and most refined of men.Women always accounted for a large proportion of the film crews he worked on.He got on well with them, even better than with men. Perhaps it is precisely because of Hitchcock's complex personality that his works have a broad space for interpretation.Its rich meaning makes reading his works a great pleasure.