Why is "Notorious" Truffaut's favorite Hitchcock work?

"Notorious" synopsis

Alicia and FBI agent Devlin meet at a party. The two fall deeply in love, but Alicia approaches him as a spy in order to extract information from Sebastian, a large-scale Nazi remnant. Eventually, Sebastian proposes marriage to her, and she is torn between her mission as a spy and her love for Devlin. At the end of her suffering, she decides to become a wife and dedicate herself to espionage...

Index

• Hitchcock's first love story at the age of 46
• The classic theme of "conflict between love and duty"
• little man's love
• Humans who were betrayed and made fun of

Hitchcock's first love story at the age of 46

I was a high school student when I saw Francois Truffaut's `` Shoot the Pianist '' (60). men and women. crime. A bar at the end of the street. Every corner of the screen was an homage to Truffaut's film noir influences.

The main character, piano player Charlie, is played by France's leading chanson singer Charles Aznavour. To be honest, he's not a good-looking guy, he's quite small even when compared to other women, and he's a rather unattractive character, but a lot of nice girls flock around him. The author, who was a teenager at the time, felt a sense of discomfort, thinking, ``Isn't the casting unreasonable?''

It wasn't until much later that I realized that Charles Aznavour and François Truffaut looked similar. The main character in `` Shoot the Pianist '' was none other than Truffaut himself. It's as if he projected himself onto Jean-Pierre Léaud in the ``The Adventures of Antoine Doinel'' series, including ``The 400 Blows '' (59).

Truffaut, who never stopped loving and worshiping women, has consistently depicted the subtleties of love between a man and a woman. While his former ally Jean-Luc Godard turned to politics, he turned to love. Let your own incarnation slip into the movie.

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In his book ` `Hitchcock/Truffaut, '' an interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Truffaut declares that his favorite Hitchcock film is ``The Notorious'' (46). This film is also a masterpiece of suspense, and at the same time, it is a thrilling love story.

``After all, ``Notorious'' is the best Hitchcock movie for me, or at least my favorite of your black-and-white movies.I think it is without a doubt the essence of Hitchcock's movies. I am confident.” (*)

Biographer Donald Spott also said, ````Notorious'' was Hitchcock's first attempt at a full-fledged love story at the age of 46.'' Truffaut, a genuine romance writer, must have been attracted to this.

The classic theme of "conflict between love and duty"