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It's The Trailer For HITCHCOCK!!
The Kidd here...
Hopefully you caught the old-school one sheet for Fox Searchlight's HITCHCOCK yesterday. Today you get a chance to give the trailer a looksie, and my... does it look fantastic...
I think it'll come as quite a surprise the incredible amount of difficulty Hitchcock had it making what is one of his most recognizable classics towards the end of his career after already establishing himself in the industry. And while Sir Anthony Hopkins appears back on his A-game after a few disappointing films, it's Helen Mirren that's really bringing the fire to this early look.
HITCHCOCK opens in select theatres on November 23.
-Billy Donnelly
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Can't wait.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 12:44 p.m. CST
As I said in a separate thread: Hopkins doesn't do accents. He sounds like Anthony Hopkins in everything.
by Baron Von Penguin
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Oct. 10, 2012, 12:44 p.m. CST
I doubt the real Hitchcock was that cartoony. Hopkins is a great actor, but if you close your eyes, he sounds like Johnny Depp in a Burton film.
by CodeName
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Oct. 10, 2012, 12:47 p.m. CST
Toby Jones from the HBO movie looks like he nailed Hitchcock moreso then Hopkins
by Titus05
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Oct. 10, 2012, 12:47 p.m. CST
THANK YOU! This and LIFE OF PI have been the only decent trailers in ages. Still waiting for GRAVITY!
by golden tribw
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I'm going to grant that Hopkins' voice does sort of...persist...through a lot of his roles, but that didn't really take me out of the trailer. That said, Helen "Don't kill her off halfway, do it after thirty minutes" Mirren pretty much stole the trailer...yeah, this should be a fun watch...
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They should go for pure entertainment value here.
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...the accent is terrible. Afraid it might detract from the experience. Doesn't feel like I'm watching someone play Hitchcock, it feels like I'm watching Hopkins play a fat, bald film director who happened to make Psycho.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 12:57 p.m. CST
Looks really good! However, the makeup is somewhat distracting.
by Ironhelix
The acting is good enough, they could have gone a little lighter on the prosthetics.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 12:58 p.m. CST
Quint's famous! He's featured in a photo gallery over at ebaumsworld with a bunch of dudes about to eat an extra large pizza
by Bobo_Vision
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/82838245/ Its picture #21.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 1:03 p.m. CST
By the way, this looks good. Im glad they are focusing on the making of psycho instead of his work with that bore Jimmy Stewart
by Bobo_Vision
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It's all about the character, not the voice inflection or accents, and this has 'character' written all over it. The best thing is that it doesn't seem to be some fawnish hagiography but a fun dissection of the eccentric persona that was Hitch. I love Mirren in this and the dialogues seem perfectly tailored for her feisty delivery. This is a movie i want to see!
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Really does looks like Janet Leigh! Yowza! I think I would start believing in God if I could just fondle Scarlett's... and you know the rest of the story.
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Hopkins still got it
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Focus on one short period and inject some drama by making it appear that there was a professional/ personal crisis during the making of some work that later is recognised as a masterpiece. Seen this script before. Also, fat suits are a bad idea, they just are. They never really work seriously and they are comedically tasteless. He looks like a shaved panda. And the voice is only Hitchcock's for every tenth word. The problem is that the greatest actor ever to play Hitchcock was Hitchcock. The paunchy strut, the macabre posturing, the drawling, jowling voice. You can't follow that: not even Hopkins can. You can't out-ham Napoleon.
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Was priceless. LOL, hillarious. And I like Helen Mirren's smirk after he said it.
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First he is "second" to play Capote, and now with the HBO where he plays Hitchcock, this movie comes out. Poor guy.
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You said it all, sepulchrave.
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His voice sounds nothing like Hitch, and this looks like a Lifetime flick.
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But at least it has some drama to it, made up or not.
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He looks like hitchcock otherwise but They should have JGL'd his nose
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Oct. 10, 2012, 1:45 p.m. CST
Goddammit, I hate this "glorious quicktime" shit for new trailers!!
by TheSeeker7
Why can't it just be a standard that everything's initially put out on youtube, not like you can go HD quality there.
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is gonna get a chance to outshine yet another great actor in the same role.
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Biopics are tough because the idea isn't necessarily to imitate as much as translate. Hopkins is doing this. He did it in Nixon - I mean he didn't look like Nixon but it didn't matter (at least to me). He captured Nixon's essence. Same goes here for Hitch. It appears to me he's all in.
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Good use of that track in this trailer. Looks fun.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 1:56 p.m. CST
so, the point of the producers is to make fun of Hitchcock?
by Gorgomel
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This is directed by who??????????
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This looks like a lot of fun, although it seems to be entirely fictional (at least, if you base it on the Making of Psycho documentary that was on the dvd/blu-ray). It's nice to see Hopkins not just phoning it in, like he's been doing for the last few years. Also any excuse to see Scarlett Johansson in a shower is a good thing.
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This will be mildly entertaining. I like my entertainment somewhat mild, so I'll see it.
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Hellen Mirren looks fantastic for her age -- funny and graceful, a classic beauty. I think a threesome with Scarlett would be in order (although they probably wouldn't need me, those stuck up bitches).
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This looks like bland biopic shit. The HBO pic is about Hitchcock sexually harassing and stalking Tippi Hedren. Reviews this summer said it will permanently tarnish Hitchcock's legacy.
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but this looks shitty. Hopkins phoned this in. Doesn't sound anything like Hitch. I worship the guy, and this isn't my god in this trailer. It's Tony Hopkins in a really bad fat suit.
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when he used his fucking TV crew to film the damn thing. It was made on the cheap. Never heard this story before. I smell bullshit--and even if it's not bullshit, who the hell wants to see a movie about a rich guy who might lose his house?
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Oct. 10, 2012, 2:22 p.m. CST
and they better not show Tony Perkins on the set during the shower scene
by David Duchovny
That was his stand in. Perkins was out of town when that was filmed.
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Fuck this movie. And fuck The Kidd. Every recommendation by this guy is terrible.
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And in a bad make up job to beat. I might see it anyway.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 2:54 p.m. CST
Between this and the HBO film on Hitchcocks "The Birds" my Hitch-fix should be aptly satiated
by RedJester
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Oct. 10, 2012, 3:08 p.m. CST
Jesus that sucks hard! The fat-suits in LITTLE BRITAIN were better
by BenBraddock
I said from the beginning this was badly cast... here's proof! Not even Hopkins can pull off that Hitchcock voice... sounds awful. Sorry to be so negative.
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I can't remember the last time I watched a trailer and was 100% sure I would go see the film. This looks great.
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...and never works. Cool trailer tho. I love movies about movies. Looking forward to this big-time.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 3:11 p.m. CST
This one looks fun, The Girl looks darker and actually unsettling
by lv_426
Toby Jones does seem to disappear into the role a bit more from the previews I've seen of The Girl. With this one I still see a bit too much of Hopkins, but he looks like he is having fun playing Hitchcock. In this case of dueling Hitchcock films, both are a must see.
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isn't it slightly controversial to have Hitch directing the famous shower scene? Didn't Saul Bass and Joseph Stefano both indicate that he wasn't even on the set during that auspicious day? This might be one of those 'Indianapolis Speech' debates but the latest info to come to light about this subject does strongly suggest that Bass might've been the one to shoot it.
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A threesome with Scarlett Johansson and Helen Mirren is an inspired suggestion.
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Hitch directed that scene
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That looks bloody fantastic, definitely going to see that
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Oct. 10, 2012, 3:47 p.m. CST
Helen Mirren looks very fuckable indeed in Prime Suspect
by David Duchovny
check it out.
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...and, damn, that is a great film! It had me guessing until the end!
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Oct. 10, 2012, 4 p.m. CST
Like the focus on Alma, though the rest feels like TV movie dramatization. Hitch's speaking cadence was slower than Hopkin's deliveries, too.
by justmyluck
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Grats. I'm envious. Wish I could go back and see them all for the first time. Now watch Vertigo.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 4:13 p.m. CST
No DVD column this week, so: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008ERNLTS/
by justmyluck
Saw the DIAL M 3D restoration at a screening — pretty great (caveat: the few rear projection process shots look as flat as they are). Even though the film takes place mostly in the one room, the 3-D is really exaggerated, probably due to the dual-strip camera system demanding more distance between each lens. Hitch leaves the *comin' atcha* shots for key moments, but there's lots of dimensional play with flowers, liquor bottles and *the lamp* in the foreground plane. The image restoration itself is solid (beyond those few process shots).
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Oct. 10, 2012, 4:29 p.m. CST
OK - just looked at the HBO film... Toby Jones looks & sounds like Toby Jones
by daggor
And Jones looks and sounds kinda' like Truman Capote. So there ya go. The HBO film looks like more made-for-TV halfasssedry. The subject matter for "The Girl" might be more interesting, but "Hitchcock" at least looks like a solid film.
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They shoulda had Martin Landau dub Hitch's voice in. If you've ever heard him talk about Hitchcock he goes into a perfect impression every time (bonus materials on NXNW, etc.).
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Hopkins sounds good in the trailer. I'm just always entertained hearing Landau's Hitchcock voice...
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Can we all just wait to see how it comes off, y'know, in the actual movie?
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Oct. 10, 2012, 4:47 p.m. CST
Do you really think he's going to sound different from the trailer in the movie? Notwithstanding a re-loop job.
by justmyluck
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Oct. 10, 2012, 5:16 p.m. CST
What would Hitchcock think of Aint It Cool News, I wonder...
by Phil Connors
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... be careless not to show them.
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Not my thing usually. Liked Bad and the Beautiful, The Player bored me (I was in the world of development at the time). This however, looks fun mostly for the Alma angle -- and you can't get any better than Helen Mirren, probably the best modern movie actress along with Streep. Hopkins' voice? Thank GOD he's not copying Hitchcock too closely. The same choice made Nixon a successful portrayal. You guys who only focus on the externals are really wrongheaded and it just shows that not everyone should be making movies because their decisions would be misplaced on the details... I mean, Mirren looks nothing like homely Alma but no one seems to be complaining about that. Nor does Biel look a damn thing like Vera Miles but I guess she and Scarlett get passes for being hot, right? Nerd hypocrisy. Hitch had to get out of his Paramount movie contract to make the film over at Universal with his tv crew. So yes, they were hocked. Maybe not indigent -- no one as famous as he at the time, would have to worry about going broke (the same way that Lucas was hocked up to his ears making ESB, though there was no way the studio would allow him to go broke by screwing up his production loans) -- but it was an added stress as PSYCHO was considered base while it was being made. **Someone up above said "that bore Jimmy Stewart." Dude, I try never to get personal on these boards -- but you're a severe cold sore.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:09 p.m. CST
@ rumourd: Hopkins is in makeup to look more like Hitch: this isn't a channeled performance. Even Peter Bogdanovich does a better vocal impression of Hitch.
by justmyluck
Hopkins shortfall is noticeable for this long-term Hitchcock fan, and there's nothing *wrongheaded* about that. On the contrary, thinking for one moment that Hopkins is not trying to capture Hitch's look and speech is wrongheaded.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:10 p.m. CST
"Youre a severe cold sore" - Rumourd. Well you're a poo poo bum bum brain
by Bobo_Vision
Actually, dude, for a while I thought you were a welcome addition to these boards because you seemed to have well thought out opinions. However, there was a pompous side to you like how you repeatedly brag about being in the film industry. You seemed a tad pretentious but I was willing to overlook it because you seemed to offer something different than the norm around here. Sadly, I was mistaken.
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Even though it was mostly fictional. I wonder if Hitchcock will take similar liberties?
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What I'm saying is, just like in Nixon, he's trying to capture the essence without going overboard in exactitude... so that your mind is constantly dealing with the equation of a 1:1 perfection. I think playing someone famous actually demands a certain physical distance, whether in voice or appearance. It's what in actor's school they call, playing the character of the person, rather than playing the person. Hopkins is playing a character here who happened to be real.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:21 p.m. CST
@rumourd: Sorry, a 1:1 performance would be captivating, admirable and a statement of their craftsmanship — and actors don't pass that up. Thanks!
by justmyluck
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Sorry for the pomp and circumstance and pretension. I have little patience for those with no knowledge of how things actually go down in the industry, so that's my flaw, I'll own up. As for repeatedly bragging, I don't think I've done that; it's more about bolstering why I have the opinions I have from actual experience, they don't come from reading Cinefex and People magazine. As for your rash reaction to my 'cold sore' comment -- I just think there are certain historical touchstones that should be respected, and to say one of the greatest actors in history is a bore, set me off. Everyone's allowed one insult, and mine was pretty taciturn, comparatively. I just read above, it was you that said the bore comment. Anyway, it's fine, let's not communicate then. You're allowed your opinion, of course.
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No, that would just be Kevin Pollack doing his incredible impression. But an impression is not a film performance. So, you're welcome. Oh, and talk to more actors, the smart ones would disagree with you.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:35 p.m. CST
@rumourd: Thank you for channeling the minds of the greater actors for me. I'll assume you're playing a dilettante, and it's rather convincing.
by justmyluck
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:37 p.m. CST
"I have little patience for those with no knowledge of how things actually go down in the industry" - rumourd
by Bobo_Vision
Then you're going to have a hard time tolerating us peons on this board, most whom are just movie fans and are not in the industry. Be patient with us, your greatness. PS - As for my "rash" response to your "severe cold sore" comment, I think what you meant to say is that I'm a dick, but you made the leap to severe cold sore because when you think of dicks, you cant help but think about the severe herpes blisters covering yours. Might I suggest some valtrex?
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Why does everyone go to extremes when someone on the boards says they work in the business? It's like your hair rises on your back like an attacked cat. I've even said, "so what, big deal, I'm just trying to convey some real-world industry protocol/knowledge/pathways here, have I name-dropped? No. So someone claims such a thing and everyone instantly things they're full of themselves; I don't get it. As I said, if you knew who all was on the boards, you'd be surprised. You act as if we don't get occasionally bored at work too and like to read the latest go-rounds on the fansites and put in our two cents. Then when work ramps up, we disappear for a little bit, then we come back, etc. We're all the same here which is what's fun about the whole thing. Quit with the knee-jerk reactions. I've been through the mill in the movie biz, the inanity of the script development process, the preview process, the exec battles, the director absurdities, et al. I just have. So let's just stipulate, this is where my opinions come from and let's move on. I'm not puffing my chest to act superior, I like to interact with the people who care about movies as much as I do. Jesus!
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Time for us to ignore each other. Comment all you want or don't want; I copped to my insult but you had to go the way of penis allusions (what a train of thought you followed -- no, I meant cold sore... lip, or gums... but who cares, it's all non-academic now). I don't think of anyone as paeans, except the graphic/scatalogical types. I don't see what's wrong with setting the misinformed types straight about industry practices; as for cineaste-style opinions, we're all equal. Sorry I started the insult progress, I see it really flares into a virus once introduced into the AICN bloodstream. Let's both ease down now.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:51 p.m. CST
If i knew who all was on these boards? You mean there are more of you industry here?
by Bobo_Vision
And you guys get bored at work just like us grunts? Im learning so much! Oh, blessed day! <p> Sorry to suggest you're pompous, rumourd. Youre good people just like the rest of us. Good down to earth people.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 6:54 p.m. CST
Justmyluck, I like how you get on your knees for anyone in the industry
by Bobo_Vision
Now you can follow rumourd around instead of confining yourself to the Saturday shorts.
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I don't have to channel. Why not read some interviews? Helen Mirren on playing The Queen. Gary Cooper on Lou Gehrig. Hopkins on Nixon. Streep on...anything. Not my words. Theirs. Who protests too much? You could say that about either of us right now.
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We appreciate it.
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We share tastes so I'm curious.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 7:02 p.m. CST
@rumourd: The Hopkins take on Hitch is an impersonation first and foremost; listing reading material isn't going to change that at all.
by justmyluck
Which brings us back to what you said, *it just shows that not everyone should be making movies because their decisions would be misplaced on the details*. We've definitely advanced from *channeling* to *projection*.
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He likes Apple empanadas and tortillas.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 7:07 p.m. CST
The nagging question is whether rumourd grenlit BATTLESHIP, and whether he would say *yes* if he did.
by justmyluck
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Cant wait to watch this, Mirren is always good to watch and I like the dark humour in this, looks like it could be rather good.
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When's the last time you drank a beer or ate a cheeseburger?
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Oct. 10, 2012, 7:19 p.m. CST
Ok, in all seriousness, no hard feelings, and I look forward to having civil film discussions with you in the future
by Bobo_Vision
And perhaps doing a pee pee touch. Ive always wanted to do a pee pee touch with someone in the industry!!!
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They throw in that bit at the end, that sure seems to imply that in Hitch's original cut for PSYCHO you could in fact (even if very quickly) see Janet Leigh's fully naked breasteses in the shower scene (so in this case, ScarJo) because of course we all know that's not how it ended up.
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Anyone else kind of not looking forward to that one? I saw a screening of The Birds years ago and Tippi Hedren introduced it by basically going on and on (to a captive audience who just wanted to see a fun Hitchcock movie) about that same stuff, how Hitch was a creepy fuck who ruined her life, etc. I don't know what really went down, but it seems wrong that she's making a late career out of this issue when he can't defend himself, having been gone for 35 years or whatever.
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Oct. 10, 2012, 8:16 p.m. CST
Rumourd left hastily after learning that the Kidd is half Puerto Rican
by Bobo_Vision
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Oct. 10, 2012, 8:46 p.m. CST
If you are reading this, and you are industry...
by The Marquis de Side 3
...STOP IT WITH ALL THE STUPID REMAKES!!! THE "ROBOCOP" REBOOT HAS THE WORST LOOKING COSTUME EVER!!! ORIGINALITY NOW!!! ORIGINALITY NOW!!! Sincerely Yours, The Audiences
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Oct. 10, 2012, 9:52 p.m. CST
Trailer looks good but the prosthetic makeup is HORRIBLE!
by GreenSkinFlatHead
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And after watching the trailer for the HBO movie it looks by far the better and more interesting of the two.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 12:36 a.m. CST
Listening to Hitchcock interviewed I think Bob Hoskins could have done a good job.
by moonlightdrive
At least as far as sounding like him anyway, but in general I think he could have put in a good performance. One thing can be said for both these incarnations though, at least they hired British actors for the part.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:46 a.m. CST
Sepulchrave -- what the fuck are you doing here?
by No Respectable Gentleman
You're far too eloquent -- and accurate -- for this forum.
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beguiling here. Maybe it's the over-adornment of prosphetics, or the fact that he sounds nothing like the man himself. Still, Hopkins played Nixon in a similar fashion: instead of relying on mimicry, he channeled his own impressionistic qualities of the man, which probably felt less cumbersome for the actor. The film on the other hand looks set to be entertaining. The casting looks like it's set the the perfect pitch - although James D'arcy doesn't exactly fit the bill as Perkins. I always had Andrew Garfield in mind: he has the perfect stature and identical personality traits seen in many of his performances of late. And Danny Elfman is on scoring duties: A good choice seeing as he adapted Herrmann's original score with adroit precision on Van Sant's remake.
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I'm usually don't care to see Biopics but that looks pretty entertaining.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 7:06 a.m. CST
Hopkins is playing himself in a "Mad Men pregnant Peggy" fat suit
by Ricardo
He seldomly sounds like Hitchcock. He was clearly miscast in this. Also, it seems like they are fictionalizing the HELL out of the making of Psycho, which was NOT a problematic production or shooting.
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He IS fucking Hitchcock.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 7:44 a.m. CST
Looks like Hopkins is doing a broader, more easily digestable caricature of Hitchcock.
by Pat
This kind of characterization would seem to fit the material better than a wholly accurate, biopic-esque portrayal. That would be boring here. This looks like fun.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 8:36 a.m. CST
Timorthy Spall would have been an incredibly good choice.
by Sepulchrave
The man is a genius but he's ignored as a mere character actor. And he has that loose lower lip that is a prerequisite. I said nobody could pull it off but Spall would give me pause. And he's proper fat. He knows about being fat. He can move like a fat man.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 8:50 a.m. CST
Hopkins certainly nailed Hitch's dry sense of humor, that's for sure
by D.Vader
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But I would have liked to have heard Funeral March for a Marionette in the beginning of the trailer. Still, a good trailer, its got me interested, and I think I'll definitely be seeing it.
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i agree with menstruatingheart that he's probably doing a broader hitch for the masses i never heard the losing the house story either. seems like at that point, he could easily pay for a movie out-of-pocket without taking a financial hit. in fact i wonder why most directors don't do that, if they really love the project. i remember reading a tim burton quote about that cartoony shot in the 1989 batman, where he is on the balcony at the beginning. he said that it looks like that because they had run out of money and i thought "really?" i'd pay for the crew and shit myself than let a crappy shot like that in my movie
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And I've heard that people like Duncan Jones and others do stop by and post every now and then, having fun, stirring things up.
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Where's the beef?
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I hope not!
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I'm surprised, I think my love for movies about movie-making is winning out over my general hatred for biopics. Mirren as Mrs. Hitchcock seems great- I've always been intrigued by her and her silent influence on him. And ScarJo as JLeigh kinda works, too.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 1 p.m. CST
HBO's The Girl looks like a MUCH more interesting story and portrail
by Ricardo
Toby Jones sounds and looks a bit better for the role (albeit still miles away from perfect).
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Oct. 15, 2012, 12:14 p.m. CST
when i think actor for hitchcock i first think of paul giamatti.
by vulturess
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