I was attending a talk the other day, and at some point the speaker quoted Alfred Hitchcock:<\/p>\n
\n“Drama is life with the dull bits taken out.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I loved this quote, but was curious to understand the full context. So I went back to the original 1960 BBC interview<\/a>. Excerpted from that interview, here is a fuller version of what he said:<\/p>\n
\n“Life is more<\/i> sensational. How does one describe drama? … Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hitchcock’s thought, as I had hoped, was more complex than the simple version one usually hears. Seeing the full interview now, I get the sense that Hitchcock wasn’t merely trying to present entertaining fantasies.<\/p>\n
Rather, he was trying to create films that reflected essential truths about life. Of course, given the limitations of his chosen medium, he needed to reduce life to its poorer cousin — drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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