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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Channing"
<filmtroll@...> wrote:
> And just as briefly, in a Hitchcock biography I read
he said the best
movies are made
> from mediocre books. Hitch points to Psycho and The
Birds as
examples.
That's interesting. Hitchcock credits PSYCHO as being all
from Robert Bloch's excellent short novel, in his book-length
interview with Truffaut. But perhaps that was in part a way
dressing down Joseph Stefano, the overly self-regarding
scriptwriter-adapter. Either way, the novel is better than
the film.
Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" is a short story. It's also
superior to the film (rather easier in this case), even
though Evan Hunter credited Hitchcock with giving him an
education in screenwriting in expanding the concept for the
script, in Hunter's FRESH AIR (NPR) interview.
Todd Mason
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