*All this video is is telling us the plot that we can get from Wikipedia. We are not given any comments regarding how Hitchcock is developing the story, what he wants us to be thinking. We are not given the reasons why Hitchcock chose specific elements in the script, for example or how he crafted scenes. There is no comment on character development or why he has darkness fall when they are in the bookshop. Perhaps Friedkin thinks sometimes it just gets dark. This is not a review or a presentation beyond telling us the story. Big disappointment. . . . I wrote the foregoing after watching it for less than ten minutes. Maybe I will change my mind but I am tempted to quit watching. . . . **20:14** Friedkin talks about the Catholic upbringing of Hitchcock in England as though it somehow relates to the Spanish Catholicism found in California but these are very different experiences and realities. The character, Carlota Valdez was from a Spanish Catholic family and Friedkin is aware of this. Catholicism in Spain and Mexico which included California was the established religion. Everyone was a Catholic or nothing. English Catholicism is very much a minority religion overwhelmed by Protestant institutions, the Church of England whose monarch is forbidden to marry a Catholic. Most Catholics in England owe their faith to the Irish immigrants after the great famine in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century. In England, Catholics were even forbidden to have bishops after the Reformation until 1850. In other words, Friedkin does not understand how none of this would resonate with Alfred Hitchcock. . . . No; I've had enough. I am angry with myself for staying here more than twenty-two minutes.*
Thanks for adding this. 😊 Every single scene in this movie is part of the story.
love what you do, keep it up
Great upload. Cheers mate!
*All this video is is telling us the plot that we can get from Wikipedia. We are not given any comments regarding how Hitchcock is developing the story, what he wants us to be thinking. We are not given the reasons why Hitchcock chose specific elements in the script, for example or how he crafted scenes. There is no comment on character development or why he has darkness fall when they are in the bookshop. Perhaps Friedkin thinks sometimes it just gets dark. This is not a review or a presentation beyond telling us the story. Big disappointment. . . . I wrote the foregoing after watching it for less than ten minutes. Maybe I will change my mind but I am tempted to quit watching. . . . **20:14** Friedkin talks about the Catholic upbringing of Hitchcock in England as though it somehow relates to the Spanish Catholicism found in California but these are very different experiences and realities. The character, Carlota Valdez was from a Spanish Catholic family and Friedkin is aware of this. Catholicism in Spain and Mexico which included California was the established religion. Everyone was a Catholic or nothing. English Catholicism is very much a minority religion overwhelmed by Protestant institutions, the Church of England whose monarch is forbidden to marry a Catholic. Most Catholics in England owe their faith to the Irish immigrants after the great famine in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century. In England, Catholics were even forbidden to have bishops after the Reformation until 1850. In other words, Friedkin does not understand how none of this would resonate with Alfred Hitchcock. . . . No; I've had enough. I am angry with myself for staying here more than twenty-two minutes.*