Professional Documents
Culture Documents
This is Alfred Hitchcocks The birds, the whole story is about a woman going to
Bodega Bay to drop of some love birds to a man she has just meet. Once getting
to Bodega Bay and finding the man she is ask to stay for the weekend. This is the
start of a long and eventful weekend for Melanie Daniels. As the weekend goes
on birds start attacking more and more, as attacks become more frequently
more birds start migrating to Bodega Bay. the story concerns a small group of
unsatisfied creatures. Two women and a young girl are all fixed on one man (Rod
Taylor), and when a fourth (Tippi Hedren) arrives from San Francisco with a
certain determination in her heart (Jones 1999) with the setting being in a small
bay the group of main actors is small, manly focusing on a single family and the
love interests of the main male character.
audiences as the camera keeps switching between Melanie and the birds, this
camera switching shows the birds turning up without out her knowing. Xan
Brooks says The crows alight, one by one, in the schoolyard above Bodega Bay.
They are summoned by the nursery rhyme sung by the children, (Brooks 2012)
no one knows why the birds turn up or what they are attracted to too. But during
this scene Melanie believe it is the kids singing that is attracting them, but this
is never proved and later on the birds attack even when there is no loud sounds.
Illustration list
Bibliography