MovieChat Forums > The Girl (2012) Discussion > If Hitchcock was the way he is portrayed...

If Hitchcock was the way he is portrayed in this film.


I actually felt bad for the man, even though he comes off as a creep.I felt even worst for what Tippi Hedren had to endure.

reply

I don't know how much of this characterization was true, but I got the feeling that Hitchcock was a very troubled man. He was also a genius at making movies. However if his abuse of Tippi Hedren is true I wonder why she put up with it. The scenes of making The Birds were horrific! I'm surprised she didn't have a mental breakdown.

reply

The thing is, I do not think the abuse was true.

It's that man again!!

reply

why? Sexual abuse and even assault was rarely prosecuted in those days.

I find the film to be believable. Hitch was a messed up dude, and he was even more hideous than Toby Jones portrays him.

reply

If you objectively watch this film [and consider the allegations published in Tippi Hedren's book] it is easy to diminish Hitch's entire career. You won't consider his genius or cinematic brilliance even once after seeing this movie - you'll only view him as an obsessed, abusive, manipulative, domineering, insecure, rapey bully who actually put his actresses in danger when his perverse sexual advances were rebuffed.

reply

You cannot watch a subjective film objectively. Sorry, your entire post is asinine.

If you want to approach the subject objectively, you have to consider all of the evidence, all of the statements from all of the people involved. This movie is a hit piece and you cannot view a hit piece objectively.

reply

I take offense at the term "asinine" but your point is valid.

reply

If you consider the facts of this objectively, you'd find that Tippi Hedren is most likely lying.

First, she claims that Hitchcock ruined her career by keeping her under contract and not letting here work elsewhere. TRUTH: Hitchcock sold her contract to Universal shortly after "Marnie." Hedren then had a part in a Charlie Chaplin movie and shortly after THAT, Universal released her from her contract. So this claim by Tippi is an outright lie.

Secondly, this movie actually embellishes on the book. If you're so convinced that this movie is factual, I invite you to read the book it is based on. You'll see that the movie has plenty of events in it that were not in the book. You can't watch a film objectively that doesn't even stay true to its own source material.

Third, why is Tippi Hedren the ONLY actress who has made this claim about Hitchcock. Sexual predators do not tend to only focus on one person throughout their life.

Fourth,Tippi has NOT always maintained this story. In fact, she had nothing but great things to say about Alfred Hitchcock during his life. She NEVER said a bad word about him until 2 years after he died when her career was in the toilet and she had the opportunity to get publicity by defaming a famous director.

In fact, Hedren has been called on this several times. Each time she says that she didn't want to destroy the man as a director because she could separate the man from the director. It's so odd that she has so much respect for a man who ruined her career and made her life miserable. Utter nonsense.

Her story has consistently changed throughout the years. In fact, just recently she has added sexual assault to the claims of sexual harassment. It's odd that although she has been claiming these things since 1982 that she waits until 2016 to add sexual assault as one of the charges.

John Brown's widow denies that Brown confirmed ANY of Hedren's claims and that he felt he was being interviewed for a movie that was going to be positive about Hitchcock.

But when all is said and done, the one thing that totally proves that Hedren is a liar is that her major claim has been completely debunked. Her major claim that he ruined her career after Marnie by not letting her work is utter bull crap. As I mentioned, he sold her contract right after Marnie and it was Universal who terminated it.

So that is why you can't look at this piece of crap objectively. It's not objective. It's full of bull based on a premise that has already been debunked.

So nice try though.

https://books.google.com/books?id=NcjbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=tippi+hedren+is+a+liar&source=bl&ots=vroy_hCsi9&sig=8ffbs7-ap7d6QAN_Owgvp4roD9I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju7d3q8rrRAhXpxVQKHeDFBO44ChDoAQg5MAQ#v=onepage&q=tippi%20hedren%20is%20a%20liar&f=false

reply