"The Birds" Talkback (spoilers)

[Lord Dalek]

The Next Scream You Hear May Be Your Own!

Release Date: March 28, 1963
Studio: Universal
Director: Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Open Matte)
Starring: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette

Plot Summary: Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognizes Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.

COMMENTS?

A DLA request... better late than never.

[Avaitor]

I so wish I could have gone to see this on Wednesday, but having no cash burns, and my friends who would have gone went to see Herman Cain instead.

The lack of a score really helps towards this film's advantage. I love Herrmann, but the film works so much better without music. Although Psycho was supposed to be done without a soundtrack either, and look at how perfectly it turned out with one, so who knows.

[Foggle]

Your friends are tea partiers?

[Avaitor]

One of them is. The others, including his girlfriend, just follow what he does because they're a little culturally retarded, even if they don't agree with him.