North by Northwest

I'm taking a Lit & Film class this semester to finish up my English minor, and we are focusing on Hitchcock films. After two boring weeks of readings and memorizing film terms like "zoom" and "cut" and "superimposition," we finally started our first film today: North by Northwest. I am like...the BIGGEST wimp when it comes to scary movies. My friends in high school practically had to tie me down to the couch to get me to watch The Village, my first scary movie, when I was 17-years-old. I saw The Ring four years ago, and I still wake up in the night fearing for my life sometimes. I'm a lock-all-the-doors-and-turn-on-all-the-lights kinda girl. That being said, I would highly recommend North by Northwest!

The thing I love about Hitchcock is that he's totally mastered the suspense thing, and in a way that's so fun and doesn't keep you up at night. Why don't they make movies like these still? Probably because Cary Grant isn't around anymore to make us girls swoon.

And here are a few Hitchcock quotes for your reading pleasure:

• "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
• "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." 
• "What is drama, but life with the dull parts cut out?"
• "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."