Vertigo

Was on the movie watching agenda last night after FINALLY moving the flats over to storage to put the punctuation mark at the end of Misery.

Vertigo is said to be Hitchcock's most biographical and personal movie, I believe it after reading a couple of books about Hitch. He would take someone and sculpt them into the image he wanted. He would alter every aspect about her that didn't fit his vision for months.

He was furious when Grace Kelly retired from Hollywood to get married. She was his most famous blond. Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren, and Janet Leigh were among his stable of women he sculpted over to become his stars.

In Vertigo he sculpted Kim Novak over on screen. Showing her, changing her, and changing her back yet again into the person he wanted. He famously tortured Hedren during The Birds by tying a string to Hedren and the birds that were to attack her. He refused to yell cut until he felt she was properly distressed. Yes you can read about it online if you look.

Vertigo is easily the most personal movie for Hitchcock. He laid out his obsessions for the world to see. Even the dark ones.