The Birds (1963)

[enoughcats]

The movie we all remember even though much of it was through fingers covering our eyes. 

The linked article by Tom and Lorenzo talks in detail about Tippi Hendren's costume, how it changed through the show, and how Hitchcock  used the costume to hold the attention of the audience.

I was surprised to see, through their eyes, how I remembered every scene they chose to highlight and I have avoided rewatching the birds because I remember so much of it, not good memories, but memories none the less.

[AimingforYoko]

2 hours ago, enoughcats said:

I have avoided rewatching the birds because I remember so much of it, not good memories, but memories none the less.

Yeah, you and Tippi Hedren.

[supposebly]

This movie is why I don't like birds and get anxious when a pigeon lands on my balcony.

[Brn2bwild]

We never learn why the birds started swarming, do we?

[scarynikki12]

To quote Billy Loomis "it's a lot scarier when there's no motive".

The real life reason is that Hitchcock was afraid of birds and this movie was just him taking his own nightmare and putting it on screen.

[Female83]

2 hours ago, Brn2bwild said:

We never learn why the birds started swarming, do we?

No unless Hitchcock mentioned it in an interview. 

[VCRTracking]

Suzanne Pleshette looked sooooo good in that movie. Absolutely stunning.

[enoughcats]

When I saw The Birds in the single screen movie theater, I had never seen huge flocks of starlings.  Now they seem to be common in fall here in east Tennessee. 

If you've never seen what's called a murmuration of starlings (the noun also applies to masses of some fish moving), this link and the soundless video will show how horribly large the murmurations can be.  

When they are actively occupying our hay fields and yard and trees and woodland, the cats will not go out.  

[Browncoat]

I saw The Birds when I was a small child, in the fall, just before the Starlings and other birds began congregating before migration.  I was terrified to walk home from school for weeks.  And even now, if there's an unusual (to me) congregation of birds, I'll say that I feel a little like Tippi Hedren.  And then run for cover.

(I do, however, take binoculars and go in search of birds on a regular basis.)

[VCRTracking]

 

 

[Palimelon]

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We never learn why the birds started swarming, do we?

I kind of like that about the movie.

[MissAlmond]

Wow, what a blast from the past; I haven't watched The Birds since I was a teenager!  So it was my opinion the birds hated Tippi Hedren's character and caused havoc wherever she went so townspeople would hate her too. That whatever the birds said Melaine Daniels had done to them, she did that s%&t. I also believed the lovebirds were plants who would eventually peck Melaine Daniels to death when the time was right. 

Edited September 16 by MissAlmond