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Why did Alfred Hitchcock prefer blondes? "Because they make the best victims," he said. They also make for a lot of biopics, as witnessed by recent screen portrayals featuring Sienna Miller and Scarlett Johansson. But playwright Terry Johnson got there 10 years earlier with this dark, distinctly Hitchcockian study of the peroxide muse.
It opens in a modern media-studies department where Alex, a jaded, middle-aged lecturer, shares the recent discovery of some fragments of old film stock with his bright (and blonde) young student Nicola. He suggests they repair to his Greek villa to investigate. Rather unwisely, she agrees. We then cut to the late 1950s, in which Hitch himself is shown interviewing an unnamed blonde actor while demolishing a dover sole with the same efficiency with which Norman Bates dismembered Marion Crane.
The parallels between the two timeframes are obvious: the anonymous blonde is terrorised by a...
Why did Alfred Hitchcock prefer blondes? "Because they make the best victims," he said. They also make for a lot of biopics, as witnessed by recent screen portrayals featuring Sienna Miller and Scarlett Johansson. But playwright Terry Johnson got there 10 years earlier with this dark, distinctly Hitchcockian study of the peroxide muse.
It opens in a modern media-studies department where Alex, a jaded, middle-aged lecturer, shares the recent discovery of some fragments of old film stock with his bright (and blonde) young student Nicola. He suggests they repair to his Greek villa to investigate. Rather unwisely, she agrees. We then cut to the late 1950s, in which Hitch himself is shown interviewing an unnamed blonde actor while demolishing a dover sole with the same efficiency with which Norman Bates dismembered Marion Crane.
The parallels between the two timeframes are obvious: the anonymous blonde is terrorised by a...
- 2/8/2013
- by Alfred Hickling
- The Guardian - Film News
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