1. Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of the police
Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three brothers, his name was given in honor of his father's brother, (good Uncle Alfred). He had a strict upbringing and never stood out for his bad behavior. Although as in any good story, there are exceptions. One good day, or a bad one, depending on how you look at it, his father sent him to the police station. He had sent him a note asking the policeman to lock him up in prison for a few minutes, for having misbehaved at home. A humiliation that he would never forget, he was five years old.
2. Alfred Hitchcock's relationship with the birds
This story was planned for one of the chapters of the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents but in the end, the director saw that it had many possibilities and turned it into a movie. So far so good.
The actress Tippi Hedren, mother of Melani Griffith, and protagonist of the film The Birds, lived a traumatic experience during filming. Hitchcock himself promised her that she would use metallic birds, but when shooting the final scene of the film, the actress saw that they were real birds. Several of them attacked her and one of them reached her and stung her in the eye, which she almost lost. A fact that left the actress traumatized, who years later would describe it as: "It was brutal, ugly, relentless."
Alfred's father was a greengrocer, but he also had a bird farm, something that exudes a certain symbolism in this story. The question is, where the hell did he get so many birds? In total, 3,200 birds were used: "The crows are the most intelligent and the seagulls are the most violent," said the director.
3 . Alfred Hitchcock considered himself "strangely ugly"
The director had great s- repression. From a very early age, he considered himself an ugly young man: "I am a strangely ugly young man." When he was older, he didn't love himself much either. He became a stingy person, an eater, and a drinker. He possessed black humor, at times bordering on heavy. One day he made a meal and dyed everything blue to be funny.
4. Obsession with blondes
He was fascinated by blonde women. He to the point of becoming surly and possessive of them. In Today Everything starts on Radio 3 with Marta Echevarria they analyze the fetishisms and paraphilias of the British filmmaker. He had a favorite Grace Kelly, whom he is said to have watched from afar as she sunbathed between shoots. But she was not the only one. Curiously, all of them were given a few characters that had to play a common role: "Marry the rich man on duty."
