COME ON WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE GREATEST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME. And he cant even make his sets realistic, i was pissing my self!!
but i suppose it was a very early hitchcock
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Probably a question of money - there wasn't too much of that floating around the British studios in those days. If you look at Young and innocent and The lady vanishes you can see some train sets that are a lot worse. Who cares? These movies are about fun, not realism.
Hitchcock is well known for crappy-looking sets and back projection. Check out the shipyard background at the end of Marnie (1964). Appalling! With the exception of the lavish films he made for David O'Selznick, Hitchcock frequently cut corners with set design, special effects etc. I don't think it detracts from the films though.
shareI agree. Hitchcock didn't start worrying much about sets until he started working in Hollywood. The british filmmakers (and public) had different standards than the more lavish Americans.
shareHitchcock avowedly hated working on location. He far preferred the controlled atmosphere of a set, even though it led to many obvious uses of projection-screen effects. The matte paintings of Albert Hall in this film, however, are very good, and would've fooled me had I not read of his inability to shoot in the real hall.
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You're right it doesn't detract from the fim since it was already operating on minus, everyone and everything in this film was lacking from atmosphere, acting, direction, sound, sets, plot, suspense. I feel very strongly about this film, it's dreadful.
shareYou're right, Hitchcock should've used CGI to stick in some more realistic backgrounds, like George Lucas.
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yes..but it's a nice surprise when characters walking in front of obviously back-projected trees suddenly walk behind and among prop trees closer to the camera.
shareThe thing that puzzled me was the use of clearly back-projected footage of the characters through the window... which turned into live footage of the same characters after Bob and his daughter walk out through the door! Obviously the set was there and the actors were there; it was just easier to use back-projection rather than have a real 'window' and set beyond...
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