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Practice essay on Hitchcock

The topic I have decided to focus on is “How Hitchcock portrays women as disposable” I have chosen this area because I personally love Alfred Hitchcock as a director and I think the genre he is known for is extremely exciting. My focus film is the controversially shocking “ Psycho 1960” I think this film really reinforces my hypothesis for example the leading lady Janet Leigh is brutally murdered with in the first 45 minutes of the classic horror. If this doesn’t scream disposable I don’t know what does. Also another scene that really caught my eye was the scene where Marion Crane and Sam loomis are discussing him leaving his wife for her I honestly believe this shows just how Hitchcock disposes women over and over again. It could be suggesting that Hitchcock believes it’s okay to have affairs and just dump women when they are no longer seen as his play toy. My supporting films are “the Birds” and “Frenzy I chose these films because I think they fit in nicely with “psycho” and really back up my topic. I think Frenzy will be vital to my research task because there is some very important scenes for example Brenda runs a matchmaking service which I thinks relates back to my hypothesis because I think this could suggest that Hitchcock sees women as objects and sources of fame and fortune.

Other sources of research that I will be exploring is autobiographies because I believe this will be reliable research and really show Hitchcock as a person and what he really thinks of women. I have also found interviews/articles with the leading ladies because I think it will give me an idea how Hitchcock treat them. I have found an article about Janet Leigh she clearly states “Whatever I put you in, the audience would immediately think of “psycho” it wouldn’t be fair to the picture or the character.” This is a direct quote from Hitchcock himself stating that he would never work with Janet Leigh again which I feel it reinforces the fact that Hitchcock sees women as replaceable. I also found an article from Tippi Hedren who quoted that she thought Hitchcock was a "sexual predator". I have found articles and news clippings against Hitchcock but also articles that prove him innocent such as story wrote about him telling that he was actually scared of women so you wouldn’t think the above statement is true

So I have come to the conclusion that some of my hypothesis could be true about Alfred Hitchcock but I have found several sources of research that defends Hitchcock and fights against the accusations of Hitchcock being a "sexual Predator". However the problems I have come across in finding my research are if the sources are actually true or a scam to earn money. Also I have found it difficult to find interviews with Janet Leigh and other actors who stared in the actual Hitchcock films this happened because I could only really locate interviews with Scarlett Johansson who portrays Janet Leigh in the new cinematic release of Hitchcock’s life.