It has also been denied by quite a few people. We know for sure that some of what The Girl depicts is not true, and as for some of her other accounts, we obviously don't know. And I, for one, don't believe anybody's accounts 100%. I think everybody's story is probably some version of the truth. He motive to lie about it is probably would be that if some less extreme version of these event did take place, she would either believe it to be more extreme than it actually was in her memory, or perhaps what did transpire may have been less extreme but still caused her to hate him with extreme vitriol and she still holds that contempt and wants to assassinate his character to this day. I know she was under contract, but Hedren of course worked with Hitchcock again in Marnie.
Because that's what The Girl was. Nothing but a character assassination. Whether it's true or not, I didn't find much particular interest in that movie. In Hitchcock, as opposed to The Girl, the viewer isn't expected to believe that everything seen is true. Nobody thinks that Alfred Hitchcock had conversations with the ghost of Ed Gein for example. This is a movie that is a fun look at what is obviously known of the Alfred Hitchcock persona, whereas The Girl claims to be some sort of expose on what 'really' happened on the set of The Birds. The results, for me, are two moderately interesting movies of about the same quality, that are both entirely incomplete looks at a famous and important figure. I give a very slight edge to this movie, however, because it doesn't claim to be something it couldn't ever possibly, actually be.
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