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This article is about the 2011 film. For the home movie film format, see Super 8 film.

Super 8
Super 8 Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
J. J. Abrams
Produced by
J. J. Abrams
Bryan Burk
Steven Spielberg
Written by
J. J. Abrams
Starring
Joel Courtney
Elle Fanning
Kyle Chandler
Riley Griffiths
Ryan Lee
Ron Eldard
Music by
Michael Giacchino
Cinematography
Larry Fong
Editing by
Maryann Brandon
Mary Jo Markey
Studio
Bad Robot Productions
Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release dates
June 9, 2011 (Australia)
June 10, 2011 (United States)
August 5, 2011 (United Kingdom)

Running time
112 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$50 million[1]
Box office
$259,936,677[2]
Super 8 is a 2011 American science fiction thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by J. J. Abrams. It is also produced by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler and tells the story of a group of young teenagers who are filming their own Super 8 movie in a small town when a train derails, releasing a dangerous presence into their town. The movie was filmed in Weirton, West Virginia and surrounding areas.
Super 8 was released on June 10, 2011,[3][4] in conventional and IMAX theaters in the US. The film was well-received with critics praising the film for its nostalgia, visual effects, musical score, and for the performances of its young actors, particularly those of Fanning and newcomer Courtney. It was also a commercial success, grossing some $260 million against a $50 million budget. The film received several awards and nominations; primarily in technical and special effects categories, as well as for Courtney and Fanning's performances as the film's two young leads.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 The Case 2.1 Plot
3 Cast
4 Production 4.1 Music
4.2 Viral marketing campaign
5 Release 5.1 Home media
6 Reception 6.1 Critical response
6.2 Box office
6.3 Awards
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb (Kyle Chandler) of Lillian, Ohio, and his 14-year-old[5] son Joe (Joel Courtney), mourn the death of his wife in a factory accident.[6] Jack blames her co-worker, Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard), as she was covering his shift while he recovered from a hangover.
Four months later, Joe's best friend Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) decides to make a low-budget zombie movie for an international film competition. Charles enlists the help of Preston (Zach Mills), Martin (Gabriel Basso), and Cary (Ryan Lee), as well as Dainard's daughter, Alice (Elle Fanning). Joe and Alice, though their fathers would be furious, become smitten with each other.
Charles wants to film a scene at a train depot using a passing train to add authenticity. While filming, Joe witnesses a pickup truck drive onto the tracks and ram the train, causing a massive derailment that the friends barely escape. The children investigate the wreck and find a pile of strange white cubes, then discover the truck's driver is Dr. Woodward (Glynn Turman), their biology teacher. Woodward, barely alive, warns them at gunpoint to forget what they saw that night, or else their parents will be killed. The children flee the scene just as a convoy from the local U.S. Air Force base, led by Colonel Nelec (Noah Emmerich), arrive at the scene. Nelec discovers an empty box of Super 8mm film, and assumes the event was captured on camera.
While Joe and Charles wait for their film to be developed, the town experiences strange events: All the dogs run away, several people go missing and electronics from all over are stolen. Overhearing military communications, Jack approaches Nelec to address the rising panic in town, but Nelec instead orders him arrested. Nelec orders the use of flamethrowers to start wildfires outside of town, as an excuse to evacuate people to the base. Suddenly, soldiers sweep into town to begin the evacuation. Meanwhile, Joe and Charles watch the derailment footage and discover that a large creature had escaped from the train.
At the base, Joe learns from her father that Alice is missing, possibly abducted by the creature. Joe, Charles, Martin, and Cary find a hole in the base's fence and slip back into town, intent on rescuing Alice. They first break into Dr. Woodward's storage trailer and discover films and documents from his time as a government researcher.
They play the film, which reveals that an alien crash-landed in 1958. The Air Force captured the alien and was running experiments on it while keeping it from its ship. Woodward was one of the scientists experimenting on the ship, composed of thousands of the white cubes. At one point, the alien grabs Woodward, apparently establishing a psychic connection with him. Now understanding the alien, he was compelled to rescue it and help it escape from Earth. Finding out about the train years later presented him with the opportunity to help the creature. The boys are caught by Nelec, but as they are taken back to base, the alien attacks their bus. The soldiers are killed and the boys escape. Meanwhile, Jack escaped from the base's brig and made his way to the shelter housing the townsfolk. He learns from Preston about Joe's plan to rescue Alice. Jack and Dainard then agree to put aside their differences to save their kids.
In town, their hardware malfunctions as the military attempts to kill the alien. Martin is injured in an explosion, so Charles stays behind with him while Joe and Cary head to the cemetery. Joe earlier saw something there that made him suspicious. Inside the cemetery's garage they find a massive tunnel leading to a warren of underground caverns. In a chamber beneath the town's water tower, they find the alien has created a device from the town's stolen electronics, and it's attached to the base of the tower. The alien also has several of the people, including Alice, hanging from the ceiling and unconscious. They witness the alien taking a man down and swallow him whole. Using Cary's firecrackers as a distraction Joe frees Alice and the other people, but end up trapped in a dead end cavern after the alien chases them down. Alice and Cary scream and run, but Joe steps forward and tries to talk to the alien. The alien grabs Joe, who quietly speaks to the alien, telling him over and over that "bad things happen" but that the alien "can still live". The alien finally opens his eyes, which seem to have been sealed shut to his time in captivity and looks at Joe. After studying Joe for a moment, the alien releases him and departs without harming anyone, allowing the three to return to the surface.
As they reunite with their fathers, everyone watches as metal objects from all over town are magnetically pulled to the top of the water tower. The white cubes are also pulled in to assemble into a spaceship around the water tank. The locket that used to belong to Joe's mom is also drawn towards the tower and Joe, after a brief moment, lets it go. The alien enters the completed spaceship; the water tower implodes and the ship rockets into space. Holding hands, Alice and Joe quietly watch the launch in wonder.
During the credits, the kids' completed film, entitled The Case, is shown.
The Case[edit]
Plot[edit]
Detective Hathaway meets with a witness who says he saw a zombie attack. He presents Hathaway with a building access pass that fell out of the attacker's pocket. The pass is for the Romero Chemical Plant. Hathaway then goes to the President of Romero Chemicals. He confronts him about an incident that occurred in the plant. The President disregards it as an accident, so Hathaway states that he is going to look around the building. After he leaves the President makes an urgent phone call saying "He knows". Hathaway is attacked by a zombie in the building. He manages to kill it by knocking its head into some exposed nails on the wall. He then calls someone to buy his wife a ticket to Michigan because it is not safe for her. That night at the train depot, she tells him that she loves him and doesn't want him getting into danger. Seconds later, a massive train wreck occurs, keeping his wife there. The next morning as they look at the wreck, they are attacked by a zombie, whom Hathaway shoots. That night, Hathaway records in his audio journal that the attacks are putting stress on his town and his marriage. He then gets a call from an Air Force officer that served with Hathaway in Vietnam. He tells him that an airman committed suicide because there was a secret he could no longer keep. He then gives him top-secret information about a doctor that the late airman worked for. He goes to meet this doctor who says that he has found a cure for the zombie epidemic and begins to test it on a victim of the virus. However, the victim wakes up and bites the doctor turning him into a zombie. Hathaway shoots them both. He goes home to see that his wife has been turned into a zombie. She suddenly attacks him, but he injects the antidote into her neck. He gets ready to shoot her but she is cured of the virus and they embrace. The film ends with a small announcement from the director, Charles Kaznyk, who tells the audience how much fun they had making it and that he hopes they choose his film for the festival. Alice, in zombie makeup, then attacks Charles and bites him.
Cast[edit]
Joel Courtney as Joseph "Joe" Lamb
Elle Fanning as Alice "Allie" Dainard, Joe's love interest
Kyle Chandler as Jackson "Jack" Lamb, Joe's father
Riley Griffiths as Charles Kaznyk, Joe's best friend
Ryan Lee as Cary, a friend of Joe and Charles
Ron Eldard as Louis Dainard, Alice's father
Gabriel Basso as Martin, a friend of Joe and Charles
Noah Emmerich as Colonel Nelec
David Gallagher as Donny
Bruce Greenwood as Cooper
Zach Mills as Preston
Amanda Michalka as Jen Kaznyk, Charles's older sister
Glynn Turman as Dr. Woodward, a biology teacher
Michael Hitchcock as Deputy Rosko
Caitriona Balfe as Elizabeth Lamb
Joel McKinnon Miller as Sal Kaznyk
Jessica Tuck as Master Kaznyk
Dan Castellaneta as Izzy
Richard T. Jones as Overmyer
Dale Dickey as Edie
Production[edit]
J.J. Abrams had the idea to start a film by showing a factory's "Accident-Free" sign long before he came up with the rest of the idea of the film. Super 8 was actually the combination of two ideas; one for a film about kids making their own movie during the 1970s, and another for a blockbuster alien invasion film. Worried that the former idea would not attract enough attendance, Abrams combined the ideas.
Abrams and Spielberg collaborated in a storytelling committee to come up with the story for the film.[7] The film was initially reported to be either a sequel or prequel to the 2008 film Cloverfield,[8] but this was quickly denied by Abrams.[9] Primary photography began in fall (September/October) 2010. The teaser itself was filmed separately in April.[10] Super 8 is the first original J. J. Abrams film project produced by Amblin Entertainment, Bad Robot Productions, and Paramount Pictures.[11]
Abrams wanted to find new faces to play the parts in his movie. He conducted a national talent search in order to find the child actors to play each of the leading roles. Courtney (who was hoping to land a part in a commercial) was picked out of many boys because Abrams found something "different" in him. Riley Griffiths sent Abrams a tape of himself in order to land the part of Charles.
Filming took place in Weirton, West Virginia, from September to October 2010.[12] To promote the film, Valve Corporation created a short video game segment and released it alongside the Windows and Mac versions of Portal 2.
Abrams' original plan was to film all of the sequences for the film-within-a-film, "The Case", in Super-8 using Pro8mm stock and cameras. However, this approach proved unsuccessful, as visual effects house Industrial Light and Magic found it impossible to integrate CGI into the footage due to the format's graininess. For sequences involving CGI, cinematographer Larry Fong used Super-16 instead.[13]
Music[edit]

Super 8

Film score by Michael Giacchino

Released
August 2, 2011
Recorded
2011
Genre
Orchestral
Length
69:84
Label
Varèse Sarabande
Michael Giacchino chronology

Cars 2
 (2011) Super 8
 (2011) Monte Carlo
 (2011)


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars[14]
The score for the film was composed by Michael Giacchino, Abrams' long-time collaborator. The soundtrack was released on August 2, 2011, by Varèse Sarabande. It won the 2012 Saturn Award for Best Music.
During the ending credits, the songs "My Sharona", by The Knack and "Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra are featured. "Don't Bring Me Down" as well as The Blondie song "Heart of Glass" and The Cars song "Bye Bye Love" are also featured in the film.
All music composed by Michael Giacchino.

Track listing

No.
Title
Length

1. "Super 8"   1:44
2. "Family Matters"   0:29
3. "Model Painting"   0:41
4. "Acting Chops"   0:40
5. "Aftermath Class"   5:54
6. "Thoughts of Cubism"   0:48
7. "We'll Fix It in Post-Haste"   0:44
8. "Productions Woes"   0:34
9. "Train of Thought"   0:35
10. "Circle Gets the Cube"   1:06
11. "Breen There, Ate That"   1:12
12. "Dead Over Heels"   0:48
13. "Gas and Go"   1:34
14. "Looking for Lucy"   0:49
15. "Radio Haze"   1:08
16. "Mom's Necklace"   1:33
17. "Shootus Interuptus"   2:35
18. "Thoughts of Mom"   1:41
19. "Woodward Bites It"   1:54
20. "Alice Projects on Joe"   2:29
21. "Neighborhood Watch - Fail"   4:45
22. "The Evacuation of Lillian"   3:40
23. "A Truckload of Trouble"   0:57
24. "Lambs on the Lam"   2:40
25. "Woodward's Home Movies"   2:40
26. "Spotted Lambs"   1:37
27. "Air Force HQ or Bust"   1:04
28. "World's Worst Field Trip"   3:36
29. "The Siege of Lillian"   2:57
30. "Creature Comforts"   10:10
31. "Letting Go"   5:18
32. "Super 8 Suite"   5:54
33. "The Case"   3:28
Total length:
 77:43 
Viral marketing campaign[edit]
Like Cloverfield, an earlier J. J. Abrams-produced film, Super 8 was promoted through an extensive viral marketing campaign. The first trailer for the movie was attached to Iron Man 2, released in May 2010. The trailer gave the premise of a section of Area 51 being closed down in 1979 and its contents being transported by freight train to Ohio. A pickup truck drives into the oncoming train, derailing it, and one of the carriages is smashed open while a Super 8 camera films. Fans analyzing the trailer found a hidden message, "Scariest Thing I Ever Saw", contained in the final frames of the trailer. This led to a website, Scariest Thing I Ever Saw, which simulated the interface of a PDP-11 and contained various clues to the film's story-line; the computer was eventually revealed to belong to Josh Woodward, the son of Dr. Woodward, who is trying to find out what happened to his father. Another viral website, Rocket Poppeteers was also found, which like Slusho from Cloverfield plays no direct part in the film but is indirectly related. The official Super 8 website also contained an "editing room" section, which asked users to find various clips from around the web and piece them together. When completed, the reel makes up the film found by the kids in Dr. Woodward's trailer, showing the ship disintegrating into individual white cubes, and the alien reaching through the window of its cage and snatching Dr. Woodward. The video game Portal 2 contains an interactive trailer placing the player on board the train before it derails, and showing the carriage being smashed open and the roar of the alien within.
Release[edit]
The film was released on June 9, 2011, in Australia; June 10, 2011, in the United States; and August 5, 2011, in the United Kingdom.[15] On June 8, Paramount also launched a “Super 8 Sneak Peek” Twitter promotion, offering fans a chance to purchase tickets for an advance screening, taking place on June 9, 2011, in the United States.[16] The film opened at #1 in the U.S. Box Office for that weekend, grossing about $35 million.
Home media[edit]
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 22, 2011.[17] The release was produced as a combo pack with a Digital Copy, including nine bonus features and fourteen deleted scenes.[18]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Super 8 received generally positive reviews. On the film-critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a score of 82%, based on 251 reviews, and a rating average of 7.4/10, with the consensus that: "it may evoke memories of classic summer blockbusters a little too eagerly for some, but Super 8 has thrills, visual dazzle, and emotional depth to spare."[19] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1–100 to reviews from critics, assigned the film a Metascore of 72 based on 40 critics, signifying 'generally favorable reviews.'[20]
Chris Sosa of Gather gave the film an A rating, calling it, "a gripping and exciting tale of finding one's place in the world amidst tragedy". His review concluded, "While the genre-bending occasionally unsettles, the film's genuine and emotionally gripping nature make its journey believable."[21]
Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of 4 and said, "Super 8 is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of film-making, when shell-shocked young audiences were told a story and not pounded over the head with aggressive action. Abrams treats early adolescence with tenderness and affection."[6] Richard Corliss of Time gave it a similarly positive review, calling it "the year's most thrilling, feeling mainstream movie".[22] He then named it one of the Top 10 Best Movies of 2011.[23] Jamie Graham of Total Film gave the film a perfect five-star rating, saying, "like Spielberg, Abrams has an eye for awe, his deft orchestration of indelible images – a tank trundling through a children's playground, a plot-pivotal landmark framed in the distance through a small hole in a bedroom wall – marking him as a born storyteller".[24] Christopher Orr of the The Atlantic called it a "love letter to a cinematic era", while Claudia Puig of USA Today praised it as "a summer blockbuster firing on all cylinders".
Critics and audiences alike were polarized on the film's ending. Some found it to be emotional, powerful, and satisfying while others found it rushed and forced. For example, writing for MUBI's Notebook, Fernando F. Croce alleged that "no film this year opens more promisingly and ends more dismally than J.J. Abrams' Super 8."[25] Other critics commented negatively on the film's frequent homages to early works of Spielberg, particularly in its depiction of broken families (a theme Spielberg has explored in nearly all of his films). For example, CNN's Tom Charity felt that "Abrams' imitation [was] a shade too reverent for [his] taste."[26] David Edelstein, of New York magazine, called it a "flagrant crib," adding that "Abrams has probably been fighting not to reproduce Spielberg's signature moves since the day he picked up a camera. Now, with the blessing of the master, he can plagiarize with alacrity."[27]
Box office[edit]
Super 8 had a production budget of $50 million. It was commercially released on June 10, 2011. In the United States and Canada, it opened in 3,379 theaters and grossed over $35.4 million on its opening weekend, ranking first at the box office.[28] The film grossed $127 million in North America with a worldwide total of some $260 million.[2]
Awards[edit]

Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
4th Annual Coming of Age Awards[29] Best Newcomer Joel Courtney Won
Best Cinematography Larry Fong Won
Special Soundtrack  Won
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Best Picture  Nominated
SFX Awards Best Film  Nominated
Best Director J. J. Abrams Nominated
10th Annual TSR Awards[30] Actress of the Year (Multiple Roles) Elle Fanning Nominated
Best Visuals: Special Effects  Nominated
38th Saturn Awards[31] Best Science Fiction Film  Nominated
Best Performance by a Younger Actor Joel Courtney Won
Best Performance by a Younger Actor Elle Fanning Nominated
Best Director J. J. Abrams Won
Best Writing J. J. Abrams Nominated
Best Music Michael Giacchino Won
Best Editing Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey Nominated
Best Special Effects  Nominated
48th Annual CAS Awards[32] Best Sound Mixing  Nominated
2011 BAM Awards[33] Best Picture  Nominated
Best Director J. J. Abrams Nominated
Best Cinematography Larry Fong Nominated
Best Makeup  Nominated
Best Original Screenplay J. J. Abrams Won
Best Editing Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey Nominated
Best Score Michael Giacchino Won
Best Sound Editing/Mixing  Won
Best Visual Effects  Nominated
Best Costumes  Nominated
Best Cast  Nominated
Best Youth Ensemble  Nominated
Best Performance by a Child Actress in a Leading Role Elle Fanning Won
Best Performance by a Child Actor in a Leading Role Joel Courtney Won
Best Performance by a Child Actor in a Supporting Role Ryan Lee Won
Best Young Actor/Actress Elle Fanning Nominated
17th Empire Awards Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy  Nominated
Best Female Newcomer Elle Fanning Nominated
2011 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards Best Visual Effects  Nominated
2011 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards[34] Best Editing Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey Nominated
Best Ensemble Acting  Won
Best Film  Nominated
Best Original Score Michael Giacchino Nominated
Best Youth Performance - Male Joel Courtney Nominated
Best Youth Performance - Female Elle Fanning Nominated
Breakthrough Performance - On Camera Elle Fanning Nominated
2011 Satellite Awards[35] Best Supporting Actress Elle Fanning Nominated
Best Original Score Michael Giacchino Nominated
Best Visual Effects Dennis Muren, Kim Libreri, Paul Kavanagh, Russell Earl Nominated
Best Sound (Editing & Mixing) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ben Burtt, Mark Ulano, Matthew Wood, and Tom Johnson Nominated
2011 Scream Awards[36]
The Ultimate Scream  Nominated
Best Science Fiction Movie  Won
Best Director J. J. Abrams Nominated
Best Scream-Play J. J. Abrams Won
Breakout Performance - Female Elle Fanning Nominated
Holy Sh!t Scene Of The Year The Train Crash Nominated
2011 Teen Choice Awards[37]
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie  Nominated
Sci-Fi Actress Elle Fanning Nominated
Breakout Male Joel Courtney Nominated
Scene Stealer Male Riley Griffiths Nominated
Chemistry The Super 8 Crew Nominated
Hissy Fit The Alien Nominated
2012 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards[38]
Best Action Movie  Nominated
Best Sound  Nominated
Best Visual Effects  Nominated
Best Young Actor/Actress Elle Fanning Nominated
Golden Reel Awards[39] Music in a Feature Film  Nominated
Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film  Won
Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film  Nominated
Hollywood Film Festival Spotlight Award Elle Fanning Won
YouReviewer Awards[40] Best Supporting Actress Elle Fanning Nominated
Best Visual Effects  Nominated
Breakthrough Actor Joel Courtney Nominated
33rd Young Artist Awards[41] Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor Joel Courtney Nominated
Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress Elle Fanning Nominated
Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor Zach Mills Nominated
Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Ensemble Cast Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, and Britt Flatmo Nominated
MTV Movie Awards Breakthrough Performance Elle Fanning Nominated
In addition to these awards, the film was short-listed for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects[42] and Best Original Score, and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. Paramount submitted it for several considerations for the BAFTAs including Best Film, Best Director (J. J. Abrams), Best Original Screenplay, Leading Actor (Kyle Chandler), Supporting Actress (Elle Fanning), Supporting Actor (Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich), Cinematography, Production Design, Editing, Costume Design, Original Music, Sound, Makeup and Hair, and Special Visual Effects.
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External links[edit]
Super 8 at the Internet Movie Database
Super 8 at allmovie
Super 8 at Box Office Mojo
Super 8 at Rotten Tomatoes


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The Birds
The Birds original poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by
Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by
Evan Hunter
Based on
The Birds
 by Daphne du Maurier
Starring
Rod Taylor
Tippi Hedren
Jessica Tandy
Suzanne Pleshette
Cinematography
Robert Burks, ASC
Editing by
George Tomasini
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release dates
March 28, 1963

Running time
119 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3.3 million[1]
Box office
$11,403,529[2]
The Birds is a 1963 suspense/horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts Bodega Bay, California, which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days.
The film was billed as 'introducing' Tippi Hedren. It also starred Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and a young Veronica Cartwright.
The screenplay was written by Evan Hunter. Hitchcock told him to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot, keeping Du Maurier's title and concept of unexplained bird attacks.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Soundtrack
3.4 Special effects
4 Premiere and awards
5 Reception and interpretation
6 Sequel and remake
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links

Plot[edit]
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), a young socialite, meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop. Mitch wants to purchase a pair of lovebirds for his sister's eleventh birthday, but the shop has none. He recognizes Melanie from a previous encounter, but she does not remember him, so he plays a prank by pretending to mistake her for a salesperson. She is infuriated when she realizes this, even though she also likes to play practical jokes. Intrigued, Melanie finds out where Mitch Brenner lives, in Bodega Bay, purchases a pair of lovebirds, and takes the long drive to the bay. She secretly deposits the bird cage inside Mitch's mother's house, with a note. Mitch spots her on the water during her retreat, and manages to talk to her after she is attacked and injured by a seagull. Mitch invites her to dinner, and she hesitantly agrees.
Melanie develops a relationship with Mitch, his widowed mother Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his younger sister Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). She also befriends local school teacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette), who is Mitch's ex-lover. When Melanie stays for the night at Annie's house, they are startled by a loud thud; a gull has killed itself by flying into the front door. At Cathy's birthday party the next day, the children are set upon by seagulls. The following evening, sparrows invade the Brenner home through the chimney.
The next morning Lydia discovers a neighbor who has been killed by birds that invaded his house, and she flees the scene in terror. After being comforted by Melanie and Mitch, Lydia is concerned about Cathy's safety at school. Melanie drives there and waits for class to end, initially unaware that a huge number of crows are massing nearby. Horrified when she sees the playground engulfed by them, she warns Annie, and they evacuate the children. The birds attack, injuring several children.
Melanie meets Mitch at a local restaurant. Several patrons describe their own encounters with strange bird behaviour. A drunk believes the attacks are a sign of the Apocalypse, and a traveling salesman suggests exterminating them all. An amateur ornithologist dismisses the reports of attacks as fanciful and argues about it with Melanie. A young mother becomes increasingly distressed by the conversation and chides them all for frightening her children. Outside the restaurant, a motorist is attacked while filling his car with gasoline; he is knocked unconscious and the gasoline pours out onto the street. The salesman from the restaurant, unaware that he is standing in a puddle of the gasoline, lights a cigar and drops the lit match. The gasoline ignites, killing him. The birds attack in greater numbers as people pour from the diner to survey the damage; Melanie is forced to take refuge in a phone booth. Mitch rescues her and they return to the restaurant, where the hysterical mother accuses Melanie of being "evil" and causing the attacks, and the ornithologist sits in silence. Melanie and Mitch return to Annie's house and find that Annie has been killed by birds while pushing Cathy indoors to safety.
Melanie and the Brenners barricade themselves inside the Brenner home. The house is attacked by waves of birds, which several times nearly break in through the sealed doors and windows. During a nighttime lull between attacks, Melanie hears noises from the upper floor. Not wanting to disturb the others' sleep, Melanie enters Cathy's abandoned bedroom and finds that the birds have broken through the roof. They violently attack her, trapping her in the room until Mitch comes to her rescue. She is badly injured and nearly catatonic; Mitch insists they must get her to a hospital. A sea of birds ripple menacingly around the Brenner farm as Mitch prepares Melanie's car for their escape. The radio reports the spread of bird attacks to nearby communities, and suggests that the National Guard may be required because civil authorities are unable to combat the inexplicable attacks. The film concludes ambiguously, as the car carrying Melanie, the Brenners and the lovebirds slowly makes its way through a landscape where tens of thousands of birds are perched. For the moment, they are not attacking.
Cast[edit]
Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels
Rod Taylor as Mitch Brenner
Jessica Tandy as Lydia Brenner
Veronica Cartwright as Cathy Brenner
Suzanne Pleshette as Annie Hayworth
Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Bundy
Charles McGraw as Sebastian Sholes
Doreen Lang as Hysterical Mother in Diner
Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. MacGruder
Joe Mantell as Travelling Salesman in Diner
Malcolm Atterbury as Deputy Al Malone
Karl Swenson as Drunken Doomsayer in Diner
Elizabeth Wilson as Helen Carter
 Lonny Chapman as Deke Carter
Doodles Weaver as Fisherman Helping With Rental Boat
John McGovern as Postal Clerk
Richard Deacon as Mitch's City Neighbor
Bill Quinn as Sam as Man in Diner
Morgan Brittany as Girl in Birthday Party
Darlene Conley as Waitress
Dal McKennon as Sam the Cook
Mike Monteleone as Gas Station Attendant
Jeannie Russell as School Child
Rory Shevin as Small/young blond frightened boy in coffee shop
Roxanne Tunis as Extra

Alfred Hitchcock makes his signature cameo as a man walking dogs out of the pet store at the beginning of the film. They were two of Hitchcock's own Sealyham terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley.[3]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
On August 18, 1961, residents in the town of Capitola, California, awoke to find sooty shearwaters slamming into their rooftops, and their streets covered with dead birds. News reports suggested domoic acid poisoning (amnesic shellfish poisoning) as the cause. According to a local newspaper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Alfred Hitchcock requested news copy in 1961 to use as "research material for his latest thriller".[4] At the end of the same month, Hitchcock hired Evan Hunter to adapt Daphne du Maurier's novella, "The Birds", first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree.[5] Hunter had previously written "Vicious Circle" for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, which he adapted for the television anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.[6] He also adapted Robert Turner's story "Appointment at Eleven" for the same television series.[5] Hunter later suspected that he was hired because he had demonstrated he could write suspense (with the 87th Precinct novels, as Ed McBain) and because his novel The Blackboard Jungle had received critical acclaim.[7] The relationship between Hunter and Hitchcock during the creation of The Birds was documented by the writer in his 1997 autobiography Me and Hitch, which contains a variety of correspondence between the writer, director and Hitchcock's assistant, Peggy Robertson.[8]
Hunter began working on the screenplay in September 1961.[9] Hunter and Hitchcock developed the story, suggesting foundations such as the townspeople having a guilty secret to hide, and the birds an instrument of punishment.[10] Hunter suggested that the film begin using some elements borrowed from the screwball comedy genre then have it evolve into "stark terror".[11][12][13] This appealed to Hitchcock, according to the writer, because it conformed to his love of suspense: the title and the publicity would have already informed the audience that birds attack, but they do not know when. The initial humor followed by horror would turn the suspense into shock.[10]
Hitchcock solicited comments from several people regarding the first draft of Hunter's screenplay. Consolidating their criticisms, Hitchcock wrote to Hunter, suggesting that the script (particularly the first part) was too long, contained insufficient characterization in the two leads, and that some scenes lacked drama and audience interest.[14] Hitchcock at later stages consulted with his friends Hume Cronyn (whose wife Jessica Tandy was playing Lydia) and V.S. Pritchett, who both offered lengthy reflections on the work.[15]
Casting[edit]
As Hunter and Hitchcock developed the script they imagined Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in the two lead roles.[10] Hitchcock, however, was unable to cast them and instead used Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren, both of whom he signed to personal contracts (only Hedren made subsequent films with Hitchcock).[16]
Soundtrack[edit]



 Many of the sound effects were created on the Mixtur-Trautonium, an electronic musical instrument developed by Oskar Sala.
Hitchcock decided to do without any conventional incidental score.[17] Instead, he made use of sound effects and sparse source music in counterpoint to calculated silences. Hitchcock wanted to use the electroacoustic Trautonium to create the birdcalls and noises. Hitchcock had first encountered this predecessor to the synthesizer on Berlin radio in the late 1920s. It was invented by Friedrich Trautwein and further developed by Oskar Sala into the Mixtur-Trautonium, which would create some of the bird sounds for this film.[18][19][20]
The director commissioned Sala and Remi Gassmann to design an electronic soundtrack.[17] They are credited with "electronic sound production and composition", and Hitchcock's previous musical collaborator Bernard Herrmann is credited as "sound consultant".
Source music includes the first of Claude Debussy's Deux arabesques, which Tippi Hedren's character plays on piano, and "Risseldy Rosseldy", an Americanized version[21] of the Scottish folk song "Wee Cooper O'Fife", which is sung by the schoolchildren.
Special effects[edit]
The special effects shots of the attacking birds were done at Walt Disney Studios by animator/technician Ub Iwerks, who used the sodium vapor process ("yellow screen") which he had helped to develop. The SV process films the subject against a screen lit with narrow-spectrum sodium vapor lights. Unlike most compositing processes, SVP actually shoots two separate elements of the footage simultaneously using a beam-splitter. One reel is regular film stock and the other a film stock with emulsion sensitive only to the sodium vapor wavelength. This results in very precise matte shots compared to blue screen special effects, necessary due to "fringing" of the image from the birds' rapid wing flapping.[22]
Premiere and awards[edit]
The film premiered March 28, 1963 in New York City. The Museum of Modern Art hosted an invitation-only screening of The Birds as part of a 50-film retrospective of Hitchcock's film work. The MOMA series had a booklet with a monograph on Hitchcock written by Peter Bogdanovich. The film was screened out of competition in May at a prestigious invitational showing at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival[23] with Hitchcock and Hedren in attendance.
Ub Iwerks was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects. The winner that year was Cleopatra. Tippi Hedren received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1964, sharing it with Ursula Andress and Elke Sommer. She also received the Photoplay Award as Most Promising Newcomer. The film ranked #1 of the top 10 foreign films selected by the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. Hitchcock also received the Association's Director Award for the film.[24]
It also won the Horror Hall of Fame Award in 1991.[25]
Reception and interpretation[edit]
The Birds received a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 96%. The eminent film critic David Thomson refers to The Birds as Hitchcock's "last unflawed film".[26]
Humanities scholar Camille Paglia wrote a monograph about The Birds for the BFI Film Classics series. She interprets the film as an ode to the many facets of female sexuality and, by extension, nature itself. She notes that women play pivotal roles in The Birds. Mitch is defined by his relationships with his mother, sister and ex-lover – a careful balance which is disrupted by his attraction to the beautiful Melanie.[27]
The film was honored by the American Film Institute as the seventh greatest thriller and Bravo awarded it the 96th spot on their "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" for the scene when the birds attack the town.[28]
American Film Institute nominationsAFI's 100 Years...100 Movies[29]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Birds (Villains)[30] Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)[31]
Sequel and remake[edit]
An unrelated sequel, The Birds II: Land's End, was released in 1994, with different actors. The film was a direct-to-television film and received negative reviews. The film's director, Rick Rosenthal, removed his name from it, opting to use the Hollywood pseudonym Alan Smithee.[32] Hedren appeared in the film in a supporting role, but not as her original character.
In 2007, Variety reported that Naomi Watts would star in Universal's remake of the film, which would be directed by Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. The production would be a joint venture by Platinum Dunes and Mandalay Pictures.[33] Hedren stated her opposition to the remake, saying, "Why would you do that? Why? I mean, can’t we find new stories, new things to do?"[34] Development has been stalled since the 2007 announcement. On 16 June 2009, Brad Fuller of Dimension Films stated that no further developments had taken place, commenting, "We keep trying, but I don't know."[35] Martin Campbell was eventually replaced as director by Dennis Iliadis in December 2009.[36][37]
Several shooting scenes from The Birds are reenacted in The Girl, a 2012 HBO/BBC film that gives a version of the relationship between Hitchcock and Hedren.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stafford, Jeff. "The Birds". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Box Office Information for The Birds. The Numbers. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ McCarthy, Michael (5 February 2009). "Final cut for Hollywood's favourite dog". The Independent. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Trabing, Wally (August 21, 1961). "Alfred Hitchcock Using Sentinel's Seabird Story". Santa Cruz Sentinel. p. 4.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Hunter 1997b, p. 26
6.Jump up ^ Chandler 2005, p. 269
7.Jump up ^ Hunter 1997b, p. 30
8.Jump up ^ Hunter 1997a
 This short book was adapted by Sight & Sound in its June 1997 edition.
9.Jump up ^ Hunter 1997b, p. 27
10.^ Jump up to: a b c Hunter 1997b, p. 29
11.Jump up ^ Mcgilligan, p. 616
12.Jump up ^ Raubicheck & Srebnick 2011, p. 92
13.Jump up ^ Gottlieb & Allen 2009, p. 23
14.Jump up ^ Auiler 1999, pp. 207–9
15.Jump up ^ Auiler 1999, pp. 209–217
16.Jump up ^ Vagg 2010, p. 87
17.^ Jump up to: a b Auiler 1999, p. 516
18.Jump up ^ "The Birds". TCM. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
19.Jump up ^ "Blue" Gene Tyranny. "All Music Guide". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
20.Jump up ^ Pinch & Trocco 2004, p. 54
21.Jump up ^ Nickety Nackety Now Now Now sung by early country music singer Chubby Parker, recorded on Silvertone Records in 1927.
22.Jump up ^ "Top SFX shots No.6: The Birds". Den of Geek. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
23.Jump up ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Birds". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
24.Jump up ^ "69th & 70th Annual Hero Honda Bengal Film Journalists' Association (B.F.J.A.) Awards 2007-Past Winners List 1964". Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
25.Jump up ^ http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-10-31/features/9102140049_1_horror-hall-chainsaw-massacre
26.Jump up ^ Thompson 2008, p. 97
27.Jump up ^ Paglia 1998
28.Jump up ^ "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments". BravoTV.com. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
29.Jump up ^ AFI 100 Years...100 Movies Nominees
30.Jump up ^ AFI 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Nominees
31.Jump up ^ AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
32.Jump up ^ Tucker, Ken (18 March 1994). "TV Review - The Birds II: Lands End". Ew.com. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
33.Jump up ^ Graser, Marc; Siegel, Tatiana (18 October 2007). "Naomi Watts set for 'Birds' remake". Variety. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
34.Jump up ^ Adler, Shawn (16 October 2007). "Original Scream Queen Decries ‘Birds’ Remake As Foul". MTV. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
35.Jump up ^ ""The Birds" Remake May Not Happen". Worst Previews.com.
36.Jump up ^ "‘The Birds’ Remake Gets A New Director?". Screenrant.com. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
37.Jump up ^ "Rumor Control: 'The Birds' Remake Begins at the 'Last House on the Left'?". Bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
Bibliography[edit]
Auiler, Dan (1999). Hitchcock's Secret Notebook. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 074754588X.
Chandler, Charlotte (2005). It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography. Simon and Schuste. ISBN 0743245083.
Gottlieb, Sidney; Allen, Richard, eds. (2009). The Hitchcock annual anthology: selected essays from, Volumes 10-15. Wallflower Press,. ISBN 1905674953.
Hunter, Evan (1997a). Me and Hitch. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571193064.
Hunter, Evan (1997b). "Me and Hitch". Sight & Sound (British Film Institute) 7 (6): 25–37. ISBN 9770037480038 Check |isbn= value (help).
Mcgilligan, Patrick (2004). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. HarperCollins. ISBN 0060988274.
Paglia, Camille (1998). The Birds. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 0-85170-651-7.
Pinch, Trevor; Trocco, Frank (2004). Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01617-3.
Raubicheck, Walter; Srebnick, Walter (2011). Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, And Marnie. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252078241.
Thompson, David (2008). Have You Seen…?" A Personal introduction to 1,000 Films. New York: Knopf.
Vagg, Stephen (2010). Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood. Bear Manor Media. ISBN 1593935110.
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