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The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

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Date: 19 Oct 2015 13:17:00
The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition]
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:59:28 | 7,82 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track) | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette

Melanie Daniels is the modern rich socialite, part of the jet-set who always gets what she wants. When lawyer Mitch Brenner sees her in a pet shop, he plays something of a practical joke on her, and she decides to return the favor. She drives about an hour north of San Francisco to Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends the weekends with his mother Lydia and younger sister Cathy. Soon after her arrival, however, the birds in the area begin to act strangely. A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbor dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this might be happening, and as the birds continue their vicious attacks, survival becomes the priority.

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On an impulse, a wealthy socialite drives to a remote lakeside village in pursuit of a man who has insulted her, taking with her a pair of lovebirds for his little sister's birthday. As she crosses the lake, she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. It is the first of an escalating series of incidents, never fully explained, which place the inhabitants of the village in a state of siege. When the birds can force their way through almost any opening, how can they keep themselves safe? And with the phone lines down and no rescue on the way, how can they ever hope to escape?

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

All of this sounds like the premise of an excruciatingly twee horror movie, but in the hands of Alfred Hitchcock it's something else. He starts by providing us with real, complex characters. Watching Tippi Hedren play the heroine with such confidence and flair, it's hard to believe that this was her first starring role. Opposite her, Rod Taylor is suave and caddish and yet undeniable likeable. Jessica Tandy makes up the odd threesome as his possessive widowed mother, desperately dependent yet perhaps, all along, only really needing the reassurance of having somebody depend on her.

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

The way The Birds is shot is the stuff of legend, and its stunning photography is essential viewing for anyone interested in directing a film themselves (or even taking a good snapshot). Throughout the easy going early scenes, the big sky looms over everything, bleak and empty, setting the stage for attacks that seem to come from everywhere. Later, in one classic scene, Hedren sits down to wait on a bench outside the schoolhouse. A single crow sits on the climbing frame behind her. When the camera turns that way again, there are four more. Then ten. Then Hedren turns round to see the whole structure covered in birds, all looking at her in that sidelong way, waiting for their moment. As she backs silently away, her terror is palpable.

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

Much of the trouble with latterday attempts to explore this kind of threat is that they tend to substitute gore and violence for this kind of tension. The horror in The Birds runs deeper than our reaction to the brutality of the attacks themselves. It's of an existential sort, related to their unexplained nature. If birds can suddenly turn on people like this, what else might happen? Can anything be trusted? With a fundamental rule broken, the whole world starts to seem alien.

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

In many ways The Birds might be seen as a precursor to a certain sort of zombie movie. All the important factors are here. There's a suggestion that their behaviour might have arrived with gulls and spread like a disease. Somebody suggests that it's the end of the world, a Biblical style Apocalypse. Or have they just gone mad? The only thing we know for certain is that they show no signs of stopping.

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

The Birds is a textbook exercise in taking a simple story and creating a devastating film. These days the special effects may look shoddy and some of the complexities of character and period may be lost on younger viewers, but it's still a powerful film.
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The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

Hitchcock's follow-up to PSYCHO (1960) was yet another ground-breaking addition to the horror genre and further revealed the master director's darker obsessions.

Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier short story, the action is set in Bodega Bay and follows bored, spoiled socialite Melanie Daniels (Hedren) as she romantically pursues dashing lawyer Mitch Brenner (Taylor). Tension soon develops among Melanie, schoolteacher Annie Hayworth, Mitch's former flame (Pleshette), and Mitch's domineering mother (Tandy). The emotional interplay is interrupted (and reflected) by the sudden and unexplained attack of thousands of birds on the area.

The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

Hailed as one of Hitchcock's masterpieces by some and despised by others, THE BIRDS is certainly among the director's more complex and fascinating works. Volumes have been written about the film, with each writer picking it apart scene by scene in order to prove his or her particular critical theory–mostly of the psychoanalytic variety. Be that as it may, even those who grow impatient with the slow build-up or occasional dramatic lapses cannot deny the terrifying power of many of the film's haunting images: the bird point-of-view shot of Bodega Bay, the birds slowly gathering on the playground monkey bars, the attack on the children's birthday party, Melanie trapped in the attic, and the final ambiguous shot of the defeated humans leaving Bodega Bay while the thousands of triumphant birds gathered on the ground watch them go.
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The Birds (1963) [Collector's Edition] [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- 'All About The Birds' Documentary (01:19:44)
- Deleted Scene
- Original Ending
- Storyboard Sequence
- Tippi Hedren's Screen Test
- The Birds Is Coming - International Newsreel
- Suspense Story: National Press Club hears Hitchcock - International Newsreel
- Production Photos
- Production Notes
- Cast & Crew Notes
- Theatrical Trailer
- Weblinks: Universal page

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