Tippi Hedren

He was very possessive and controlling with his leading females. They all were gorgeous blonde women. He especially treated Tippi Herden horrible throughout the film, The Birds. She claims he was a very abusive and controlling man. She wanted out of her contract, but he would say to her that he is going to ruin her career if she did. In an astonishing story she tells how he made her film in close quarters with real birds. “ In one horrific sequence, the filmmaker withholds from Hedren that real birds, not mechanical ones, will be used in a scene in which she 'll be attacked at close quarters. Then he subjects her to five days of shooting, take after take, leaving her injured and distraught” (Stephens 1). She still has scars from that horrific week today on her face. But of course, this is only a sided agreement and Alfred Hitchcock can 't defend himself…

During this week I saw an episode of The life of the Birds presented by David Attenborough in which he showed the way which some birds have for catching the attention of a possible couple. Amongst all of them, he showed the lyrebird which seems to have more than 300 different sounds for that, and amongst those sounds there was one that sounded like the alarm of a car and other that sounded like a pneumatic drill, those which are utilized to break streets, all that while deployed the feathers of…

In “The Chicken” the chicken saves herself from death and gains her power in the household by laying an egg. The proves her place by showing a motherly act of laying an egg. She starts as the “chicken for Sunday’s lunch.” (49). An piece of meat that will be eaten and then forgotten, something that isn’t important. “[The chicken] looked at no one and no one payed any attention to her.” (49). Before she lays an egg and becomes a mother she doesn’t exist to anyone nor does anyone care for her. She…

to the audience, not only about Judy, but Scottie’s obsession with Madeline also. This essay will touch on Hitchcock and how Vertigo is almost autobiographical, how the shot was made, what the shot gives to the audience and why it is important. Although Vertigo was not meant to be an autobiographical film, we can see Hitchcock’s relationship with the women in his work through this film. Grace Kelly, Hitchcock’s ideal blonde beauty, worked with him for three of his films and his obsession with…

The story begins as Mr. and Mrs. Mallard fly over various potential locations to start a family. Each time Mr. Mallard selects a location, Mrs. Mallard finds something wrong with it. The mallards continue their search, flying over Boston landmarks and they find the Charles River. From this island, the mallards visit a policeman named Michael on the shore, who feeds them peanuts every day. Shortly thereafter, Mrs. Mallard hatches eight ducklings named Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack,…

What would you do if all the birds in the world started attacking people? Well, that's what happens in the movie and short story The Birds. The short story and the movie are very different, even though there are some similarities. One of the major similarities between the short story and the movie is that the radio was there the main source of information. In the movie between bird attacks, they go out to the car and turn on the radio to see if they can leave town. In the short story, they…

In the play “A Doll House”, Henrik Ibsen utilizes bird imagery to represent the characters in the play and the obstacles that hold them back in everyday life. Birds are amazing animals that have the ability to fly wherever they want, giving them absolute freedom. However, it’s still possible to place limitations on these creatures through the use of cages, and other forms of restriction. We as humans are similar to birds, as every individual has the potential to accomplish great things, however…

It is very clear that this poem was carefully constructed, it was meant to be read meticulously. The author of the poem has spent hours working with the “precision of black and white and its close score and countercut that becomes what happens here, between these squat characters and a thinning fiction keen to aspire” (Groarke, 56, 22-26). Yet even with this meticulous care, the only way to escape the confines of the poem is “by way of leave”, or by flight. This is also,…

In “On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz,” by Ralph Ellison, it provides many examples of diction and syntax. For diction, I came across questions such as why the author uses the word virtuosi, and if the author provided any examples of metaphors. In the sentence, “Mimic thrushes, which include the catbird and brown thrasher, along with the mockingbird, are not only great virtuosi, they are the tricksters and con men of the bird world,” it provides the answer to both questions. Furthermore, the word…

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte employs birds a symbol in order to highlight important themes in her novel. While birds traditionally symbolize freedom and expression, Bronte uses them to show independence (or a lack of), freedom, and rifts in social class. Bronte also depicts some of her most prominent characters as birds such as Jane, Rochester, Adele, Bertha, and even Rochester’s guests. Through the use of bird symbolism Bronte highlights important topics in her novel, while giving the reader…