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Friday, February 8, 2008

Those Entrancing Vanity Fair Hitchcock Shots

posted by on February 8 at 8:54 AM

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They’re popping up everywhere, and now they’re here.


The Birds.

Strangers on a Train .

Vertigo.

And, my favorite, North by Northwest.

See them all at ohnotheydidnt.

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As the fabulous Michael K. pointed out yesterday on Dlisted: "Renee Zellweger is actually opening her eyes" Who knew ol' Ham Face had eyes? I just thought they were those little spices you stuck in there..

Posted by Ham Face has eyes? | February 8, 2008 9:12 AM
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Seth Rogen as Cary Grant? Cute.

But the clothes aren't right in some of the pictures. They're like cheap knock-offs. And Mrs. Danvers is way too glamourous.

Nice tribute to Hitch though.

Posted by Bauhaus | February 8, 2008 9:19 AM
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JJL as Mrs. Danvers is inspired. ScarJo as Grace Kelly? Not so much.

And couldn't they have come up with someone saucier for the Tallulah Bankhead role in Lifeboat? Eva Marie Saint is lovely, but the fact that she actually worked with Hitchcock should disqualify her from this exercise. What about Angelina Jolie? Cate Blanchett? Anyone?

Posted by sorryroger | February 8, 2008 9:23 AM
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That photo of Renee Zellweger is SUPER-unflattering--she's starting to look like Bette Davis (old Bette Davis).

Posted by Nora | February 8, 2008 9:27 AM
5

Jodie Foster for The Birds was a horrible choice. Naomi Watts would have been better there and Jodie could take the Tallulah Bankhead role.

Posted by monkey | February 8, 2008 9:29 AM
6

Any chance we'll get a movie about Serge the Hurricane Killer soon?

That would be fun, something like the Hurricane Punch book ...

But I agree, as a former Seattleite (from Down Under, mate), Naomi Watts would have been better, even if Jodie is the better actor. Casting is an art, not a science.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 8, 2008 9:34 AM
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Seth Rogan is so hot, bouncing fat included.

Posted by Craig | February 8, 2008 9:38 AM
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The link for The Birds is wrong.

Posted by Tlazolteotl | February 8, 2008 9:41 AM
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Whoops, fixed.

Posted by David Schmader | February 8, 2008 9:49 AM
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Renee Zellweger looks ancient in that photo. Definitely not flattering. I like the others though, particularly Strangers on a Train.

Posted by PA Native | February 8, 2008 10:12 AM
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I actually like the Renee Zellweger one -- she looks like a movie star, at least. The rest of these people look like dwarves. Rogen is a wonderful actor, but he's about as far from Cary Grant as you could possibly get -- I like what he's done with his hair, though.

As photography they inadvertently reveal a devastating lack of art compared to Hitchcock and Robert Burks. These are mediocre fashion shots, not genius.

Posted by Fnarf | February 8, 2008 10:36 AM
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This was an interesting idea, but I don't think it was executed very well. A victim of bad casting and uninspired photography. The composition in the Rear Window and Rebecca photos is atrocious; the photographer managed to make both Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightly unattractive and unappealing. And the Lifeboat picture, doesn't make any sense; lets stick a bunch of actors in a boat and take a picture...The cast photo for the Soprano's a few years ago, did a similar boat theme, which was a thousand times better than this.

Posted by michael strangeways | February 8, 2008 10:39 AM
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Can someone explain the ScarJo hate to me? Is this a hipster thing?

Posted by Sam | February 8, 2008 10:44 AM
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I like Seth Rogen fine, but having him take the place of Cary Grant? Gross and insulting. The closest thing to Grant today is Clooney, and even he doesn't measure up.

Posted by keshmeshi | February 8, 2008 11:12 AM
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Seth Rogen is hotter than Cary Grant.

George Clooney is hotter than Seth Rogen.

Posted by David Schmader | February 8, 2008 11:24 AM
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I think Seth Rogan is hotter than Cary Grant and George Clooney in the sense that having sex with him wouldn't seem wrong. George Clooney and Cary Grant are almost too handsome to be "hot."

Posted by craig | February 8, 2008 12:42 PM
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Cary Grant is hotter than all of the working actors today put together. Cary Grant had a VOICE, too, unlike any of these whippersnappers. AND he knew how to wear a suit, unlike any of these whippersnappers.

Posted by Fnarf | February 8, 2008 1:43 PM
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Cary Grant: the male fuckmate of choice for men who prefer women.

Seth Rogen: the male fuckmate of choice for men who prefer (big, funky-looking) men.

(As for the female fuckmate of choice for men who prefer men: Julianne Moore, obviously.)

Posted by David Schmader | February 8, 2008 1:58 PM
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Man, you are REALLY stretching my tolerance for teh gayz with this Cary Grant hate.

Rock Hudson, then?

Posted by Fnarf | February 8, 2008 2:45 PM
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Yes, Fnarf, I don't know what it is about Cary Grant. He's like a Teflon muppet of a handsome man.

I'd take your beloved Gene Kelly over your beloved Cary Grant any day...

Posted by David Schmader | February 8, 2008 3:41 PM
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HELL NO on Seth Rogen. He's a slimeball and not that cute. He always talks in that made-up-for-Hollywood voice that makes him sound like Fozzie Bear. He reminds me of a sixth-grader doing play-by-play of his classmates playing dodgeball or someshit. NOT HOT. JONAH HILL = TRUE HOT.

Posted by chubby chaser | February 8, 2008 4:35 PM

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