Alfred Hitchcock warned that modern films were beginning to rely too much on dialogue to tell the story, rather than the visuals. He believed this would result in a slow death of the cinematic medium, because it was abandoning its entire reason for existence, which was the beauty of a moving image. He famously described many modern movies as “photographs that speak” rather than cinema. #alfredhitchcock #hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock warned that modern films were beginning to rely too much on dialogue to tell the story, rather than the visuals. He believed this would result in a slow death of the cinematic medium, because it was abandoning its entire reason for existence, which was the beauty of a moving image. He famously described many modern movies as “photographs that speak” rather than cinema. #alfredhitchcock #hitchcock
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