5 Britain’s Great Director

Chapter 4 Britain's Great Director In an important scene from Blackmail, a young girl joins her family for breakfast. Then a neighbor arrives to gossip about a terrible murder that happened the night before. The girl is the killer, but no one suspects this. As the neighbor chatters on, her voice becomes more and more distorted except when she repeats the word KNIFE. That single word is repeated over and over, loud and clear. This creative use of sound forced the audience

《勒索》中有一个重要的场景，一个小女孩和家人一起吃早餐。 这时，一个邻居来闲谈，说前一天晚上发生了一起可怕的谋杀案。 这个女孩就是凶手，但没人怀疑。 当邻居喋喋不休时，她的声音变得越来越扭曲，除了她重复“刀”这个词。 这个词一遍又一遍地重复着，响亮而清晰。 这种创造性的声音运用迫使观众

to feel what the girl was feeling. They understood her horror and shame at what she had done. Once again Alfred Hitchcock was demonstrating new and exciting ways of making movies. He used sound as creatively as he had used camera angles and visual details in his previous films. Blackmail was a hit. Hitch's home life was happy. Patricia was bright and funny. Alma, whom he called "Madam," was his best friend and favorite professional partner. He trusted her opinion above anyone else's. Alma also helped write many of his scripts. In 1934, Michael Balcon again found a perfect script for the great director. The Man Who Knew Too Much was the story of a couple on vacation whose child is kidnapped when they're mistaken for spies. It was a huge hit in England. Hitch followed it with other exciting movies: The 39 Steps, Secret Agent—the story of a British spy—and Sabotage, in which a young wife comes to realize her husband is a terrorist. All these films portray characters who have been

去感受那个女孩的感受。 他们理解她对自己的所作所为的恐惧和羞愧。 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克又一次展示了新的、令人兴奋的电影制作方式。 他对声音的运用就像他在之前的电影中对镜头角度和视觉细节的运用一样有创意。 敲诈是个好主意。希契的家庭生活很幸福。 帕特丽夏聪明风趣。 阿尔玛，他叫她“夫人”，是他最好的朋友和最喜欢的职业伙伴。 他相信她的意见胜过任何人的意见。 阿尔玛也帮他写了很多剧本。 1934年，迈克尔·巴尔肯再次为这位伟大的导演找到了一个完美的剧本。 《知道太多的人》讲述的是一对度假的夫妇，他们的孩子被误认为间谍而被绑架的故事。 它在英国大受欢迎。 希契随后又拍摄了其他激动人心的电影：《39级台阶》、《特工》（讲述一名英国间谍的故事）和《蓄意破坏》（讲述一名年轻妻子发现丈夫是恐怖分子的故事）。 所有这些电影刻画的人物都是

wrongly accused and who are in danger. Hitchcock loved to make audiences wonder what was going to happen next and who the real villain was. Pat Hitchcock was also getting interested in her famous father's work. By the time she was eight, she wanted to be an actress. At her boarding school she was cast in the school play. Another film director, Alexander Korda, actually offered her a movie contract as a joke on her father, who was his rival. Although she was away

被冤枉的人，有危险的人。 希区柯克喜欢让观众好奇接下来会发生什么，真正的反派是谁。 帕特·希区柯克也对她著名父亲的作品产生了兴趣。 在她八岁的时候，她想成为一名演员。 在寄宿学校，她出演了校剧。 另一位电影导演亚历山大·科尔达（Alexander Korda）实际上给了她一份电影合同，作为对她父亲的玩笑，他是他的竞争对手。 虽然她不在

at boarding school in Sussex, Pat saw her parents a lot. On weekends they visited the school or brought her home to Shamley Green. Pat loved listening to her father's jokes and impressions of the actors he worked with. And young Pat was Hitch's favorite audience. By this time, Hitchcock's movies were big hits both at home in England and in the United States. But Hitch had never been to America. In 1937, he, Alma, and Pat arrived in New York City.

在苏塞克斯的寄宿学校，帕特经常见到她的父母。 周末的时候，他们会去学校，或者把她带回香莫利格林的家。 帕特喜欢听父亲讲笑话，以及他对与他合作的演员的印象。 年轻的帕特是希契最喜欢的观众。 此时，希区柯克的电影在英国本土和美国都大受欢迎。 但希契从未去过美国。 1937年，他、阿尔玛和帕特来到纽约市。

He was already famous for his hit movies, and the press in New York couldn't get enough of the larger-than-life Hitchcock. In person he was very funny and very large. One night he went to the 21 Club and ate three steak dinners and three ice cream sundaes in one sitting. The press reported every bite.

他已经因为他的热门电影而出名，纽约的媒体对这位传奇人物希区柯克的报道欲罢不能。 他本人非常风趣，身材高大。 一天晚上，他去了21俱乐部，一口气吃了三顿牛排晚餐和三顿冰淇淋圣代。 媒体报道了每一个细节。