In the mind of Tippi Hedren on of Hitchcock's most known blonde's for how she says he treated her which ended up in ending her career after she left him. In the film Alfred Hitchcok (Tony Jones) has come of the recent success of Psycho now wants to make his follow up The Birds. While watching TV Alma (Imelda Staunton) notices a blonde named Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) in a commercial, she gets called in to audition and ends up getting the main part. Everything seems to be going OK when filming begins but soon Hitchcock's real ambitions start to show, they start when he kisses her in the back of limo which she did not want to happen causing her to run away in anger. The film then takes a strange turn from there as we see Hitchcock start to punish her especially when filming the attic scene her changes the schedule from one day with fake birds to five days and real birds attacking her. As filming continues he still try's to push closer to her but she try's to stop it from happening. The two stars also film Marne which is the last film they make together, one of the final scenes happens after a scene from Marne is filmed Tippi comes into Hitch's office and he tells her that she will now give into his sexual desires, when she turns down this offer he says he will ruin her career (which he did). The ending scene of the film is filled with happiness and sadness as Tippi finally feels free while Hitchcock feels sad that he has put this women through the ringers, this is the only moment that changed the character of Hitchcock as he is written as just pure creepy evil while Tippi is written as an antihero as she has many chances to stop it all but gives in because she feels that's what she must do for her career. Toby Jones once again plays a famous figure as someone else in the same year (He played Capote the year PSH won the Oscar), his performance of Hitchcock doesn't change much which means he is able to nail it in the first couple of minutes continuing through the film to play a character without any development maybe at the end when he sees the girl go away. Sienna Miller has never been known for her acting skills but with her performance of Tippi Hedren I was surprised how much I connected with the performance. She played Tippi as a scared women who thinks she cannot do anything. If you look at actual film of these two film Sienna does a great job of recreating some of these scenes. The film had many problems because the story seemed very unrealistic and underdeveloped only trying to get us to believe one story in what Hedren said instead of what Hitchcock might have said.
MOVIE GRADE: C (MVP: Sienna Miller)
MOVIE GRADE: C (MVP: Sienna Miller)