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Originally Posted by bwdowiak
No. Actually, he didn't. He pushed the envelope with his use of the macabre and also sex (e.g. the kissing in Notorious or the rape in Frenzy), but he was reluctant to abandon rear screen projection... no, that isn't exactly an example of him NOT embracing tools available to him, but at a time when directors were shooting more on location, we got crappy looking sets such as the ones in Torn Curtain and Marnie.
I believe that w/ CGI, he could have made The Birds today and made it exciting, but he was not a progressive filmmaker in certain regards.
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All his adherence to stage-bound productions demonstrates is that Hitchcock liked to be able to control
everything. If anything, he would be thrilled with the potential that CGI provided for controlling the environment of his films even more.
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Originally Posted by Quinni
Indeed. I can't imagine that Hitchcock would use CGI as a crutch, like so many modern directors do with so little thought.
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Indeed. I like to think he would use it in the way David Fincher uses it in films like Zodiac and TGWTDT. To create a specific world and tone, without making it obvious and overbearing. Fincher's "invisible" use of CGI has been fantastic.