Alfred Hitchcock, better known as the Master of Suspense, has “killed” many people in his day which has been immortalized on the big screen. Hitchcock mainly worked on suspenseful movies and over the years created a unique style of his own. Hitchcock became a household name when he came to Hollywood. His career blossomed from the silent movie era, growing slowly into what would become a world of suspense and horror. On top of suspense and horror, he also included tales of espionage. He was a prominent director of espionage films until he moved on to crime thrill dramas. As he moved on from the clichés of an English director, he used his original ideas to expand his career in the darker side of film. He fluently tied his genres together …show more content…
The signatures that are most prominent in his films include the lack of dialogue and Hitchcock’s favorite, Macguffins. Hitchcock began his career in the silent movie era where he learned the art of visual dialogue. To him, dialogue was not important in a film for it takes away from the true human emotion visual dialogue gives us. In an Alfred Hitchcock style, the camera zooms in on various parts of the characters body to further exemplify how they are feeling; especially the eyes. As he once said," Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms"-Alfred Hitchcock. In addition, Hitchcock always added visual element which was coined by a colleague of his. The Macguffins is an irrelevant object That moves the plot line forward. Hitchcock began to add more items in the plot to trick the viewers into believing it was important to the plot as a whole.An example of this in North by Northwest, a man was being accused of being a spy and then faced jail time for the crimes he was set up with. Throughout the movie, he was trying to clear his name. In the ending scenes it was revealed that the true criminals were stealing government secrets; the Macguffins of the film. By the end of the film, the reasoning behind this activity didn't matter; to me at least. A majority of the