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About Hitchcock's Biography Written By Donald Spoto

Ronald Spoto is house insurance biographer of not only Alfred Hitchcock, but also: Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Alan Bates (1).

Hitchcock's biography written by Ronald Spoto starts with an anecdote in which a large gathering of people waited for Hitchcock donate a car arrive to accept an award. This is in 1979 just before refinance mortgage refinance death of the film director. In this way the book opens with a flashback. For the rest, the biography is organized in a chronological way. It is divided in periods and decades.

Another anecdote that is said to have influenced his career is when his father send the young boy to prison: "At a young age, he got a bad report card and his father decided to teach him a lesson. He had a policeman friend put young Alfred in jail overnight, saying this was the punishment for bad grades." (2)

Guilt has ever been a motive in his film career.

The book also explains his continuous "devotion" to culinary and eating anxieties. Another anecdote sheds light on why eating has become a answer on fear. The same fear that is present in his movies.

I have (Speed) read the book in a Spanish version and while doing this I wondered how other structures could be used to form the biography. For example categorized by the films he directed Home mortgages for bad credit by the themes in the films. Besides that the book is a good read, but perhaps not for the modern reader who wants to jump from one part to another and who will gain insight along the way. The detailed reader will find every movie explained.

One of the most important facts I found was his inability to "design text," so to say. Hitchcock was a man of pictures, not accident at work claim So he always needed the best text-writer to explain in words what he had already pictured in his mind...

An interesting book. For more details, check out amazon (3).

Hans Bool

(1) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto

(2) - angelfiremn/nn/Hitch

(3) - amazonDark-Side-Genius-Alfred-Hitchcock/dp/030680932X

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