This is the last of my Hitchcock related movie reviews, so I had to end with Birds. This is a singular movie, one that mixes birds with horror. I recall watching this movie as a young lad, then afterwards while playing hardball (that’s right, I said hardball) on the boulevard, having a distinct feeling that the neighborhood pigeons were menacing me, out to peck me to death.
This was a game changing film, made by a very disturbed and sick man: Alfred Hitchcock.
The lead actress, Tipi Hendren, is said to have been sexually harassed on a daily basis by Hitch. He had a thing for his blonde actresses and behaved in a manner that was awfully similar to the psychotic in another one of his films: Psycho.
Apparently, they didn’t use fake birds in this film and Tipi didn’t have a fucking stunt double. Those birds truly went ham on her and she was injured during the production, most likely because she didn’t give into Hitch’s sexual advances.
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He also locked her into a ridiculously long exclusive contract, in which he essentially didn’t allow her to make another movie.. Talk about a non-compete clause
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Le Fly,
On another subject, the family and I went to a graduation party last evening.
One of the dad’s brought a drone. It was a higher end model between 1-2k retail. I’m not any kind of remote control toy freak of any kind to be sure, but after he moved this thing around in the sky, there was not one male in the crowd watching that wasn’t salivating.
If you haven’t seen one fly in person, it is truly incredible. They go straight up and down, sided to side, forward and backward in a very precese manner. Range is a mile and a half. He made the thing go up in a straight line for a mile, then it hovered there without his hands on the controls. With an I pad connected to the remote control, data on position, battery status, etc was given on the screen, along with a perfect picture from the drones camera which had zero vibration or sudden jerky motion, and the pilot didn’t possess any special skill.
It was, in a word, so bad ass.
My wife wants a new bay window in our living room. I am now fighting to reallocate the money to a drone.
Buy her the window. If you don’t, one day she’ll fly the drone into the window at high speed – she’ll get her window one way or the other. The only question is, how much do you want a drone smashed beyond repair?
What is brand of this drone?
DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ (plus) V3 SPRING SALE
http://dronesetc.com/products/dji-phantom-2-vision-plus-pre-order?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=670939977&gclid=CIiz1YvtjcYCFUo8gQodmWwAcg
Presumably you will have a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to the bay window. What will you think of the drone if you detect it hovering outside your bedroom window, with a 100 mm objective lens and the dull red glow of near- infrared LEDs?
If it hasn’t happened already, I expect there will be legal proceeding resulting from someone bringing down a drone hovering over their property. The courts will need to determine at what altitude the air above private property is a public space.
It is already illegal to fly a drone at that height over someone’s property without their permission. While it isn’t explicitly defined in most states to an exact height, there have been numerous court cases granting that a property owner has the right to the airspace above their property up to a reasonable height. Given existing cases that limit is somewhere around 80 to a couple hundred feet.
“The Fly” SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO ACQUIRE A DRONE!
While it sounds innocent enough, drone technology could used to refine general Internet geo-location into precise locations by searching for wireless routers with the specific identity of a rouge commenter to a certain financial web site.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-the-real-fly-from-acquiring-drone-technology
Fly, watched this with my mom when I was 7 or 8 on a Saturday night. Freaked the fuck out of me like none other. Will never forget it.
how weird is it that I was thinking about this movie this morning, remembering the walk home, looking up at the birds on the electrical wires, feeling they might take flight at any moment.