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but it always was
a temporary title, he told me.
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Eventually, it was Family Plot, and I
believe even the studio had suggestions.
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But Hitchcock had long liked
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single words for titles.
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Notorious, Psycho, Frenzy -
all had single-word titles.
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Family Plot was two words,
and he really didn't care for it,
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but he could never come up,
nor could the studio come up,
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with a single title.
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Deceit, being the original title
of the screenplay, didn't work for him.
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(Woman) My father still was active,
or wanted to be active.
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But he also was suffering.
He had a lot of illnesses at the time.
:34:46
And it was very hard.
:34:48
It was hard, you know, when they
did the location and all that,
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which he hated doing anyway because
he said it was such a waste of time.
:34:57
(Sighs) Well, that's the end of that.
:34:59
When I had one session with him
when we were talking about
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how we would shoot the car chase,
:35:06
he wanted that to be a second unit,
and I wanted him to shoot it.
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- (Tyres Screeching)
- George, what's the big hurry?
:35:15
And he asked me one question. He says,
"Well, how do you shoot that?"
:35:19
And I said,
"Well, you get an insert car
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and you hook it up to the car and you
go up to Angeles Crest Highway
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where it was designed to be shot,
and you shoot it."
:35:29
And he says,
"And where does the director sit?"
:35:32
And I said,
Well, on the back of the insert car."
:35:36
And he said,
"Precisely. Have I made my point?"
:35:41
Which was him telling me he can't do
that rigorous type of shooting.
:35:46
And from then on, I could see that he
couldn't do anything that was taxing,
:35:51
and that became a second unit.
:35:54
(O'Connell)
My mother also had been ill.
:35:56
She had cancer, but she recovered.
But then she'd had a stroke too.