![]() ![]() So he started to generally keep his appearances in the first fifteen or so minutes of the film, so the audience could get back to the business of figuring out the mystery, rather than figuring out where to spot the director. ![]() ![]() In 1964’s Marnie, he breaks the fourth wall by looking directly into the camera five minutes into the film, and this was long before breaking the fourth wall became a chummy movie trope.Īlthough he had his fun drawing attention to himself in this little way, he didn’t want it to provide too much of a distraction, or so he told fellow filmmaker Francois Truffaut in a famous book-length interview in 1962. Surprisingly, his cameos were notoriously tongue-in-cheek, often poking fun at himself, for example in 1951’s Strangers on a Train when he almost bumps into Farley Granger as Hitchcock boards a train Granger is disembarking, carrying a double bass which exquisitely mimics his rotund form (he actually has second confirmed cameo in Strangers on a Train, we’ll leave you to spot that one). For a man responsible for some of the most devilishly suspenseful films in cinema history, Hitchcock himself was a rather reserved personality. ![]()
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