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and then edit it is... insane,
because it's not possible.
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You never get a good scene that way.
But Hitchcock always did.
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What's exceptional,
really, isn't that he was so
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adamant and such a perfectionist.
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What's amazing is that it worked!
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Usually, you have in your mind a notion
of how this scene is going to look,
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how it's going to run,
how it's going to feel.
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And then you put it there
like you imagine it - it doesn't work!
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So, you have to re-edit, and then
you have to re-edit that.
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Then you have to re-edit that.
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But what he did was almost
supernatural when you think about it.
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He pre-thought it so thoroughly
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and with such an accurate imagination
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that when you cut it, it worked
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just the way he thought it would
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every time, every scene,
every movie!
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(Kazanjian) Hitchcock used to tell me
and show me films
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and explain his theory in chases.
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And one of those theories is:
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If you're in a vehicle or in a train
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with your actors,
and the camera is inside,
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you shoot everything inside that train.
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Most directors would shoot the scene,
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and then take their camera out
into the field
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and show the train in a long shot
going from left to right.
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But once you're in the car,
you must stay in the car.
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(Dern) He said, "Bruce, you know
what would make this scene work?"
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And I didn't know.
So, he had to explain it to me.
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He said, W ell, what I do is I do
close-ups of you and Barbara,
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and I do the car's point of view
of the road.
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And I never show you the car.
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I show you the car when the oil's
coming out of the brake thing,
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and then I let the car go.
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And I just cut to you
and the car's point of view of the road.
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That way, the audience thinks they're you
and are going through the trip."
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He does that on all his movies. I mean,
that's the way to keep suspense.
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I didn't know that. I didn't know
that's why it worked in a movie.