tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219214733140697041.post3296523052541784808..comments2023-05-30T05:51:00.400-07:00Comments on Alfred Hitchcock Geek: Roller Coaster Designer Takes a Lesson from Alfred HitchcockJoel Gunzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597499250122165168noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219214733140697041.post-1286843030507204482008-04-01T13:49:00.000-07:002008-04-01T13:49:00.000-07:00Hitchcock said this in a 1964 interview for the BB...Hitchcock said this in a 1964 interview for the BBC:<BR/><BR/>"I believe in putting the horror in the mind of the audience and not necessarily on the screen. I once made a movie, rather tongue-in-cheek, called “Psycho”. And, of course, a lot of people looked at this thing and said “What a dreadful thing to do. How awful”, and so forth. But, of course it was to me... it had great elements of the cinema in it. The content, as such, was I felt, rather amusing... and it was... it was a big joke, you know? And I was horrified to find that some people took it seriously. It was intended to cause people to scream and yell, and so forth, but no more than the screaming and yelling on a switchback railway."<BR/><BR/>The comment comes at the end of this section...<BR/><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU64L758c" REL="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU64L758c</A><BR/><BR/>...and the interviewer (Huw Wheldon) picks on the "switchback" comment at the start of the second part...<BR/><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWi3-eLQqY" REL="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWi3-eLQqY</A>Dave Patternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11475497165304257045noreply@blogger.com