Cary Grant In The Film The Birds

In one of the most remarkable scenes in the film history, crop duster scene, Cary Grant is portrayed as an isolated man, faced by hostile elements in a scary dream world. Hitchcock has to abandon subjective view point and to resort objective view point just as in The Birds, in order to prepare the public for the threat of the plane drive. The crop dusting sequence is relevant in the film’s development. The complacent, self-confident Cary Grant character is exposed in open country away from the false security of office and cocktail bar is vulnerably exposed to the menacing and the unpredictable. The man who was concerned only about himself is now shown running for his life, scampering for cover like a terrified rabbit. Along with Grant

Roger’s criminality goes unpunished and finds himself trapped by the villain and his henchmen in a sophisticated Chicago auction house. He fabricates bidding to provoke and mobilize a sedate and complacent crowd and engages in a fistfight which becomes a cue for the auctioneer to call the police which Roger also expected. Roger’s lies are sometimes intended to be beneficient. Richard Millington rightly observes about the setting of the climax in Mount Rushmore that “the testing of Roger Thornhill’s character unfolds as a series of ordeals in places that trace out the mythological history of American individualism” (137-38). Roger acquires everything unexpectedly which he never wanted to possess which includes his name and identity as one fictitious Mr.Kaplan, to drink the liquor forcefully poured down his throat in Long Island, to own any of the articles he bids for at the auction, or to revel in the tourist view of Mount Rushmore or to possess the quaint Asian sculpture containing the secret microfilms that the villains plan to export that he manages to find in his hands possess before being