What do you think of The Birds? I had a great time watching this one! 😅 Keep an eye out for Shaun of the Dead, The Maltese Falcon, 28 Days Later, & Scanners (1981)

@richardb6260

2 жыл бұрын

My older sister saw this at the theater when it was released. It really scared her and when she left the theater she looked visibly shaken. She was trying to light a cigarette and her hands must have been shaking. A police officer came up behind her to see if she was OK and tapped her on the shoulder. She screamed. It's really a great idea. Birds are everywhere and you don't give them a second thought. It's impressive for the movie to make you think twice about something that you never thought of as a threat.

@robertjewell9727

2 жыл бұрын

I find this film darkly poetic. The scene between Melanie and Lydia in the bedroom where Lydia explains her feelings to Melanie is the core of the film in my opinion. Watch how Hitchcock films and edits the scene and he utilities full shots, motion and closeups to show emotional tension and resolve.. It's full of nuance. Anthropologist Camille Pagkia wrote and absolutely excellent analysis of the film you should check out for a fun very intelligent read. Absolutely fantastic reaction, Chris. I watched Shaun of the Dead last night just so I'd know it before you reacted to it so you're definitely providing some interactive viewing which is a great thing. 👍

@suddenlyfrogs1906

2 жыл бұрын

All these are fantastic choices :D I was almost late for a job interview because of some of the London filming locations in 28 Days later. I'd stayed at a friends and left early just to make doubly sure I'd be on time and was held up. I thought it was an accident or something at the time.

@christopherleodaniels7203

2 жыл бұрын

When you mentioned how good the little girl “Cathy” was, all I could think was, “Wait till Chris finds out she’s Veronica Cartwright, who also played Lambert in ALIEN.”

@washo2222

2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed your reaction. I was 8 y/o when my father, a big Hitchcock fan, took me to see this. Came home, walked into the house and, according to Mom I was white as a bed sheet. She asked me how the movie was. I just walked by her going to my room. Dad came in and Mom asked him what movie he took me to and he told her "It was Hitchcock's "The Birds." It was a great movie." I was literally frightened and stunned in shock as I sat there watching the film especially when Melanie is trapped and being pecked at by all those birds...and the blood and the man's eyes pecked out stayed with me for years. I couldn't shake that image out of my head. Now I see it for what it is a visually stunning masterpiece of filmmaking. Don't know if you knew this but Lydia was played by Oscar winning actress Jessica Tandy ("Driving Miss Daisy." She was married to Hume Cronyn another actor and featured in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" and Ron Howard's film "Cocoon."). Suzanne Pleschette who played the school teacher was a B movie actress but made it big in the TV series "The Bob Newhart Show."

As a Vietnamese/Cambodian person, we have to give a huge thanks to Tippi Hendren. She is the reason there's a Vietnamese Nail Salon Empire. She was a humanitarian. In 1975, she met Tuan Le who complimented Tippi on her nails, so Tippi got her in beauty school and helped so many of us female refugees after the Vietnam War immigrating here helping them get into beauty school. The very first 1 was called Mantrap in South LA. There's a documentary about it called "Nailed It" (NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the Netflix show)

@infonut

7 ай бұрын

thank you for letting us know of that. too many acts of true charity go un-noticed.

Several years ago, in the mid 90s, I went to a Halloween party as Melanie Daniels. I had the smart suit, the French Twist hairdo and the 1960s shoes. All covered in fake blood, with fake birds attached to nearly every part of me. It was a big hit.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh that’s a great costume!!

@xsf2152

8 ай бұрын

That's dope! Tho I think that's more than SEVERAL years back lol

@Uta_Chandra.H

6 ай бұрын

👏👏👏

@EpoRose1

5 ай бұрын

(Psst… the mid-90s was THIRTY years ago. I know, because I graduated high school then! 😂)

The crows on the playground is a particularly disturbing scene.

@gaelbourdier2941

2 жыл бұрын

As far as I'm concerned; I find it' a very effective scene.

@falcychead8198

2 жыл бұрын

You'll notice how the children's song helped build the suspense.

@gaelbourdier2941

2 жыл бұрын

@@falcychead8198 Yes indeed I agree; it increases heat.

@leslie2149

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite scenes in the movie. I love the way it's put together. And then the quiet until you hear the children start running.

LOL at "this house belongs to the birds now, you should just move". Great reaction!

Cathy is played by Veronica Cartwright who played lambert in Alien. She was also in the remake of invasion of the body snatchers.

@richelliott9320

2 жыл бұрын

And penny’s sister from lost in space

@ollietsb1704

2 жыл бұрын

@cynfan5 Fay Wray? Yes. I think she barely gets mentioned enough, you're right. She's certainly a candidate with both KING KONG and THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. Then there's Una O'Connor with her screaming-mimi's in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN's open scene of the burning castle, as well as the innkeeper's screaming wife in THE INVISIBLE MAN. These original scream-queens seem almost forgotten among uneducated film fans.

@christopherleodaniels7203

2 жыл бұрын

She’s also great, and I mean GREAT in ‘The Right Stuff’, playing astronaut Gus Grissom’s wife Betty.

@renee7407

2 жыл бұрын

Omg, I was just going to google her because she’s so familiar. It’s so obvious now!

@jamesm654

2 жыл бұрын

And The Witches of Eastwick

Tippi Hedren is actress Melanie Griffith's mother. Also the mother in the movie is Jessica Tandy. If you haven't seen it yet you should see her performance in Driving Miss Daisy.

@tenorman420

2 жыл бұрын

And Cocoon! She and her real-life husband, Hume Cronyn head up an all star cast in that film. It’s awesome!

The shot of the birds flying out from behind the school while the children run has been described as one of the best depictions of a nightmare.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

💯 percent, YES!!

@garbageday587

2 жыл бұрын

Notice that we don't see the birds shadow on the ground

@nazfrde

10 ай бұрын

Or the sequence where Melanie is sitting behind the school, oblivious as more and more crows mass on the monkey bars behind her. And then we se her eyes follow one crow across the yard and land, and suddenly there are what looks like hundreds of crows.

This was a great reaction. Most people dismiss these films because everything nowadays needs to be graphic and in your face scary. This is so scary for so many other reasons. LOVE Hitchcock. The fact that nothing was explained is horrifying.

I was terrified of this film as a child. The child actress who played Mitch's sister is Veronica Cartwright who was also in Alien.

@carerforever2118

2 жыл бұрын

Veronica Cartwright was in " Flight of the Navigator" and in episodes of "The Xfiles"

Hollywood legend Jessica Tandy played Lydia. She has been in many wonderful films. For example Coocoon, Cacoon the Return, Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Dasiy, Batteries Not Included, The World According To Garp.

@monacaravetta

Жыл бұрын

A national treasure!

@photo161

Жыл бұрын

....And she was Blanche in the original Broadway production of Streetcar Named Desire, with Marlon Brando...

@monacaravetta

Жыл бұрын

@@photo161 indeed!

LMAO!! This is the BEST reaction I've seen to The Birds 🤣

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

Great review! In Evan Hunter's original script, they drive to San Francisco and on the way the birds attack the car, ripping the roof to shreds. They outrun the birds, but it ends with a shot of the folks in the car, stunned expressions of their faces, and then a dissolve to the Golden Gate Bridge which is COVERED with birds. It just wasn't technically possible to do at the time, so Hunter and Hitchcock changed it to the slow getaway. But you still get the impression that the birds have taken over the country, if not the world.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s amazing! I would have loved that ending! I mean the abruptness we got it still great, you still feel like they may not make it, but that would have been brilliantly full of despair!

@PungiFungi

Жыл бұрын

Actually the crew was complaining about how the movie never ends as the script was also constantly being modified (they drove into the devastated town, they the were chased, they then reached SAn Fran…). So I guess they ended it before it outstayed its welcome.

The fact that the reason for the birds acting as they did, was always very troubling. Was it the feed? Had it been tampered with? As I got older, I realized that there is a good reason Hitchcock did not offer and explanation. In our lives, terrible things happen all the time, and often there is never a reason, or only one reason to explain it. Sometimes stuff just happens, even bad stuff.

@dr.burtgummerfan439

2 жыл бұрын

Global warming.😁

@anitam7547

2 жыл бұрын

The Birds = The Women. Strong negative emotions between them - yet never the hint of physical violence. Their 'psychic violence' is played out by the birds unnatural/irrational behaviour. When the relations between the women are resolved - the birds become more passive.

@theactualbajmahal833

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitam7547 It's also why Norman in Psycho is fascinated with and stuffs birds (and his mom).

Now that you've seen this movie, highly suggest Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes (1978) get on your list. It might be tricky getting your hands on a copy and it is not on KZread Movies, but you can get a copy if you try (cough) SEARCHING (cough) for it. Fun Fact: Mitch Zanich, owner of the Tides Restaurant at the time of shooting, told Sir Alfred Hitchcock he could shoot there if the lead male in the movie was named after him, and Hitchcock gave him a speaking part in the movie. Hitchcock agreed. Rod Taylor's character was named Mitch Brenner, and Mitch Zanich was given a speaking part. After Melanie is attacked by a seagull, Mitch Zanich can be heard saying "What happened, Mitch?" to Mitch Brenner.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

I watched a cartoon version of tomatoes when I was a kid. I definitely don’t remember it though, other than the theme song. 🤣

@BigGator5

2 жыл бұрын

CNR ...I watched the cartoon too. Killer Tomatoes was sn entire franchise.

@corvus1374

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, mister, a tomato just ate my sister. And then follow up with Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

At the end of the movie when we hear a brief news clip about birds attacking in Bodega Bay, they also say that there had been bird attacks in San Francisco. The ornithologist mentioned that there were billions of bird in the US alone and hypothesized about what would happen if they banded together. The terror of the movie was the fact that the birds were massing together to attack humans and it was just starting. They could escape Bodega Bay but in time the bird attacks would be wide spread and humans would be lower on the food chain. The ending is open because it was just the beginning of what was to come and you are to use your imagination. That creates more terror.

I always thought the reason the birds went crazy when Melanie showed up is because she brought the love birds in a cage, and all the birds around town started launching air strikes against the humans to liberate the caged birds. In that light, it was the humans who were the villains and the birds were the heroes trying to rescue their imprisoned friends.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

I love that theory!! Gives a little bit of perspective to their motives.

@robertyeah2259

Жыл бұрын

I like to lean towards that idea. "The Birds" refers to a few elements in the plot and up until the birds start attacking, every instance of the birds is to be a prop for the human characters in some way. Melanie Daniel's walks into a shop full of caged birds and sees them swarming ominously outside. She takes Lovebirds several hours in a cage just for the sake of a petty practical joke. This practical joke leads to a romance for the characters, while the Lovebirds that brought them together stay stuck in a cage. We see other small instances of birds being mistreated, like someone ordering chicken during the diner argument scene. I think there could be a parallel between Melanie Daniels being a free spirited character, and birds are thought of symbols of freedom. Yet we keep a lot of them in cages, as pets or to breed and then eat. So Melanie using the lovebirds as a prank and finding happiness from it seems to incite a rage within the birds that's been building for years. I've also seen someone say "The Birds" refers to the female characters of the story, and how the bird attacks seem to coincide with the "psychic violence" between Melanie and Llydia, with the birds only becoming passive with Llydia accepting Melanie as a member of her family and Melanie gaining the mother figure she never had. The plot would make you think the relationship between Melanie and Mitch is the center, but it is actually Melanie and Llydia, and even Kathy and Annie. The emotions of the female characters, "the birds", are the focus of the narrative. I like both of these ideas and I think they're both correct.

@SoggyPinkyToe

Жыл бұрын

@@robertyeah2259 very interesting…thank you for sharing!

@kennethmarrow3131

7 ай бұрын

The answer is in The Birds 🦅 🦅

Before this movie was made there were incidents in California of birds attacking people. The birds were eating toxic algae which led to them essentially going mad, then attacking and breaking into people's homes. That incident is the inspiration of this movie.

Even the short story this movie is based on didn't have a satisfactory ending. Great story, but it ended on a cliffhanger with no explanation. That's what makes it even more terrifying.

You're on a roll, Chris. Good stuff!! When The Birds was first broadcast on TV in 1968, it was a really big deal. It held the record for most watched film on television until 1972.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. That’s so cool!! I wish there was still “appointment tv” it was very unifying.

@dennismason3740

2 жыл бұрын

What was watched in 1972?

@geraldmcboingboing7401

2 жыл бұрын

@@dennismason3740 Love Story (1970) starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

@dennismason3740

2 жыл бұрын

@@geraldmcboingboing7401 - Incredible. I saw that film in theaters (I was 19) and I did like it.

There was originally a longer ending scripted and storyboarded. The reason Melanie had a convertible was that as they drive away the birds start to fly up & keep speed with the car. Glimpsed through the window are the ruins of the town- bodies and things wrecked. The birds start to peck through the fabric roof of the convertible, the script describing how shafts of light from each hole in the roof fall across the face of the group inside the car. Just as the roof is basically in shreds, the car makes it to the end of the curvy road to town and the highway straightens out and Mitch guns the engine away from the birds. There was a last line that was something like "It seems to be all clear ahead". If you search online you may be able to find some of the cool storyboards that went with this scene. The scriptwriter Evan Hunter was very disappointed this was not filmed but the story goes someone at Universal convinced Hitchcock that it would be a redundant attack. Hitchcock said also that he did not want a convenient explanation for the attack, with some sort of scientist all of a sudden saying "this is why the birds are attacking" like so many B sci fi movies of the day.

Filmed in Bodega Bay Ca, many of the locations like the schoolhouse are still there. This film scared the hell out of me as a kid, the sound the birds make is scary. And hand it to Hitchcock for making ordinary birds scary. I liken it to The Andromeda Strain where the director made microbiology scary, it takes talent and creativity for a director to do that. A couple years before The Birds was made there were many birds that had ingested a toxin and slammed themselves against the walls and windows of houses in Monterey Ca. It is thought this may have been where the idea for the film came from.

@creech54

2 жыл бұрын

The movie was a loose adaption of a short story by Daphne du Maurier. Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn" and "Rebecca" were also based on du Maurier novels.

“I don’t think that’s gonna help, my guy.” 😂😂😂😂😂

This is one of my all time favorite movies! I watch it once or twice a year. Anytime I am out & there is a gathering of birds I automatically think of this movie.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

How can you not? I will from now on too! It made one scene in 28 days later way scarier.

Fun fact if you didn't know. The blonde that plays Melanie is actress Tippi Hendrin mother of actress Melanie Griffith and grandmother of Melanie's daughter Dakota Johnson.

This brings back so many memories. I watched this several times with my mom during my childhood.

@Jerome616

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, mostly on AMC. I have not watched this in about 15 years. I’m glad it still has the punch even today

Wooow, haven't seen this in a loooong time. It's truly legendary. It's one of those films that was added to the National Film Registry, which happens when a movie is so culturally significant. Hitchcock was a master.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know that! Such a great achievement!

The Love Birds are the McGuffin.

I'm a baby boomer and saw this movie when it came out in 1963 (I was 14 years old). Simply out of curiosity I'm watching movie reviews, and your video popped up in my feed. It was absolutely fascinating watching you assess these scenes! 😅At the time, THIS movie was ground-breaking for the horror of these attacking birds! 😄This was enjoyable, you assessed it very well.

The girl who played Cathy, Veronica Cartwright, played Lambert in the original "Alien" in 1979

Stephen King's story The Mist was inspired by this. His story ends the same way as The Birds...unlike the movie, as you well know.

@gggooding

2 жыл бұрын

Note the fanatic woman screaming that Tippi Hedren is evil and "brought this" and Tippi slapping her. Same character that Marsha Gay Harden played in The Mist.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

This makes all the sense! Completely fascinating.

@gggooding

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! I just looked this up - never noticed. One of the poster/paintings Thomas Jane has in his studio in the opening shot of The Mist *IS* The Birds. (The one on the far left that the camera barely lets you see. It's Easter, mother******!)

@grayscribe1342

2 жыл бұрын

If I heard right, the novel of the Mist had a different ending.

@AbsoluteApril

2 жыл бұрын

@@grayscribe1342 yes it did, very open ended with them just driving off into the mist, very much as King generally ends his novels (open ended but forbording)

The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects but lost to the epic CLEOPATRA. This movie inspired the Natural Horror genre, where animals, big and small, go on a deadly rampage, whether it be the shark from JAWS, the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK/WORLD, Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Mice, Rats, Crocodiles, Alligators, Sheep, Rabbits, or the killer bees in THE SWARM.

@creech54

2 жыл бұрын

What movie had killer sheep?

@garbageday587

2 жыл бұрын

The birds had no shadow on the ground lol

@wayneg9040

2 жыл бұрын

@@creech54 The Sheep! Poster tag line: "We're in some deep sheep now."

What shocks me is that, given how Hollywood remakes virtually everything, no one has done a remake of this movie.

Hitchcock never breaks the tension so audiences would leave the theatre with that feeling. Imagine leaving the cinema in 1963 and hearing a few birds cooing........

I only just picked up on the fact that Rod Taylor is also the voice of Pongo in 101 Dalmatians. I only noticed halfway through the film when the house is all boarded up and he's talking to Cathy and Melanie about evading the Birds while leaving the house ("stay there) - speaking in the exact same cautious/gentle/fatherly tone that he had when he was talking to Perdita and the Puppies about evading Cruella. Crazy I only just now picked up on it

Little Veronica Cartwright played Lambert in Alien

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I caught that after I watched. Every time I’ve seen her in a film I’ve commented on how great she is.

@mciddangelo9790

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! People beat me to this!

They left the ending ambiguous so you kind of have to think what probably happened. In theaters at the end when the birds started amping up a bit, they filtered in bird sounds in the surround sound to make the audience feel the film was coming to life. It is left unanswered because could it happened? Maybe, but we won't know why. Great reaction as always.

The scene at the school is so amazing. The way the scene builds tension. Every time we cut back there are more birds. The children singing. It’s such a good scene.

I’m old… I remember seeing this film at the drive in when I was about 8 years old. My parents would never have taken us to this movie if they had any idea what it was about. I remember my mother freaking out when Rod Taylor was trying to close the shutter and the gull was biting his already bloody hand… my Mom was yelling “Larry! Larry!!!” I so love this film.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

Haha that’s an incredible memory!

Just happened on your page today and watched a few of your reactions and I love them! I see that many people have referenced Veronica Cartwright as the same actress from Alien, which was going to be my fun fact. However, I have another one. I couldn’t read ALL the comments, so I don’t know for sure if anyone mentioned this. I have watched this movie SO many times since I was a child. I even saw it on the big screen once, which was spectacular! I never noticed until I read it somewhere that there was no music soundtrack! You mentioned it in the opening, but not sure you noticed it throughout the whole film. All they relied on was sound effects. They did use an instrument to create some of this effects, but that was it, except when Cathy plays the piano. Another fun fact that I didn’t see any mention of, but one of Cathy’s friends at the birthday party was child actress Suzanne Cupito who grew up to become Morgan Brittany, who was a famous TV actress in the 80’s (specifically on Dallas).

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel :) surprisingly for me, I actually never once thought about music again, the film was so immersive.

One of my favorite movies. I saw it as a kid, and it's just as terrifying today. Hitchcock was a mad genius.

I've been to Bodega Bay several time. In the restaurant they have photos from the film on the walls. Some are autographed by Tippi and Suzanne.

If you ever have a chance to visit Bodega Bay I advise you to do so. Such a beautiful little town. Only about a 60 minute drive north from San Francisco right on the coast. Great seafood, you can go to all the locations from the movie and take photos, and it's still very authentic and an old fashioned town.

Last scene was supposed to see them driving into the safety of San Franncisco. And then seeing the Golden Gate Bridge covered with birds.

One of the first horror movies I saw,at the age of 4.The eyeless corpse of the farmer gave me nightmares for years!

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! For sure. That’s the scene that would actually make me terrified of birds.

It never fails. Watch this movie and when you leave the next day there is a 99.99% chance there will be 10 robins in your yard and crows on the power lines.

Hitchcock had an alternate ending in mind where our fugitives get to San Francisco only to find the Golden Gate Bridge COVERED with birds!!!! 😱😱😱

This was my favorite horror movie to watch growing up. Whenever it came on tv, I had to watch it. 😁

That was the first movie I can remember that really freaked me out. I saw it on TV when I was only about six. I can't imagine why my parents let me watch it.

@shallowgal462

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, on both counts.

I always found it interesting how much Melanie and Lydia resembled each other. I wonder if Tippi Hedren named her daughter after the character.

The girl Cathy Brenner was played by Veronica Cartwright who was also in Alien and the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If you haven't seen that one it's one of the best remakes ever. It's got a great cast (Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Amy Adams and Leonard Nimoy). Back to The Birds. The scene of the playground covered in birds is awesome. This was considered the last of Hitchcock's great run of films starting with Rear Window (1954-63). Marnie was released in 1965 starring Tippi Hedron & Sean Connery and is kind of a forgotten gem. Torn Curtain (Julie Andrews & Paul Newman) was 1966 and is alright where I'm concerned. Great reaction.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I’ll definitely have to check out invasion of the body snatchers. Late 70s has been some of my favorite films so far.

The birds chasing the schoolchildren were mostly animation (they cast no shadow)🎩

I remember watching this as a 9 year old kid back about 1968. Scared the bird seed outta me!! The next day as I walked to school there were many crows on the telephone wires and I swear they were just WAITING for there moment to attack! Still surprised I didn't run back home. LOL! Great memory! 🐦 🦃 🦉 🐥 🐔 🦅 😱 😨 🙀

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I love that! Thanks for sharing.

Again, I love how passionate you are about these old films. You could laugh it off, mock it to the ends of the world and back, but you really immerse yourself in it. That, or you're a really good actor. Either way, well done!

@jamesscanlan6240

Жыл бұрын

Nothing to mock. That scene where she sees him with his eyes poked out is still disturbing.

@TopsyTriceratops

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesscanlan6240 I agree, but sometimes people make fun of the special effects and acting, calling it outdated, ugly, or just stupid. I think everything in this film is amazing!

Mitch's mother is played by Jessica Tandy. She was married to Hume Cronyn, who played the father's friend in Shadow of Doubt (he was the one always discussing murder methods).

I think a big factor that makes this concept so scary is that birds are literally dinosaurs. Also I could definitely see this situation causing enough stress in Cathy that she would get sick. Fun fact the original end showed the whole of the gold gate bridge swarming with birds.

5:32 imagine this same movie except SHE walks into the pet shop and HE pretends to work there... this movie gets darker and stalkyer very very fast

Melanie is played by Melanie Griffith real mother Ashe was named after her part in this film

The ambiguous ending was a clever and terrifying way to leave the audience in sheer suspense. A real classic!

The scene where the birds try to break in the house looks like something you’d see in your nightmares

I love the open ending. Do they make it? Does she die from the wounds before they reach the hospital? Do the bird attacks ever stop? Who knows. No answers. No closure. Just fear and dread.

the mother of the scared kids in the cafe is the same actress who briefly appeared as cary grant’s secretary in north by northwest.

My mum was 7 when she watched her first ever film, The Birds. To this day she is still terrified of it.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I kind of love that!

There have been several theories behind the birds' behavior, including the lovebirds somehow being the trigger and the mother's attitude towards Melanie reflecting the mood of the birds. The latter of which might explain why the birds were quiet and unprovoked at the end, because the mother had come to accept and comfort Melanie. If I remember correctly, there was also a weird phenomenon in real life where seagulls were disoriented and sick from eating a rotten algae bloom, thus flying strangely and swooping at people.

From the clues given, it seems that Melanie Daniels' presence on the island was the reason for the bird attacks. The attacks stopped once the birds sensed she was leaving broken and no longer a "threat" to them. Truly enjoyed the reactions.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

It’s definitely fun to think about! Thanks for watching.

@HuntingViolets

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't there an attack in the news before that? Anyway, I don't think she was ever a threat to them.

@gaynor1721

Жыл бұрын

Not true. Hitchcock said the birds were enacting their revenge on humanity for the cruelty inflicted upon nature. It wasn't Melanie Daniels's fault.

So cool you are watching old movies! And you don't swear. Thank you, man! Heh, I remember watching this thinking. "It's an old movie. How scary can it be." HAH! One of the few movies to give me legit nightmares. Actually had a parrot bite clear through my ear once. I feel like that's mildly relevant.

@CasualNerdReactions

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea an older flick could strike that level of terror haha

The girl in this movie, Cathy, was played by the then 13 yo actress Veronica Cartwright, who, amongst many other roles, played Joan Lambert in Alien, in 1979. It's been many years since I watched The Birds, and only now did I immediately recognize her!

@charlieeckert4321

2 жыл бұрын

She was also in Lost in Space and Sound of Music.

@Keyboardje

9 ай бұрын

@@charlieeckert4321 No, I think that was her sister.

Having to walk outside so slowly and quietly when you are surrounded by a hundred birds is terrifying. Alfred Hitchcock is a Master of suspense!

No musical score. Just the birds!

That was great! Hitchcock said he wanted to shock the audience with the abrupt non-ending, but we do know he planned other stuff, including a chase where the birds shred the hood of a speeding convertible. I heard a story about them arriving back at San Francisco and there are birds all over the Golden Gate Bridge, but I don't know if that one's true. I suspect Hitch convinced himself just stopping the film was a good idea because the movie was so hard to make. "If we'd known how hard it would be, we'd never have attempted it."

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of them pulling up to the Golden Gate Bridge, roof shredded and it ends as the last flickers of hope are finally extinguished! But the abrupt endings cool too.

The girl, Cathy, is played by Veronica Cartwright who played Lambert in Alien. A true horror icon

From what I understand the moment the Love Birds were brought to the island, it had an affect on the birds there. At least that's what I've heard over the years. I don't know if they were an Omen of Death, or just not wanted by the other birds. You can find books deticated to Alfred Hickcocks movie's, that offer insight's. Good Luck and Love the movies you react to. You might try Sunset Blvd. Excellent movie, although not Hitche's.

This movie brings back memories, I remember watching this with my mother as a kid after school or on Saturdays. Now I can't even get her to watch horror movies with me lol. Here's a few more creature feature movies I suggest you could check out, The Killer Shrews (1959), Them (1954), The Food of the Gods (1976) and The Deadly Bees (1966)

@richelliott9320

2 жыл бұрын

Killer shrews has old festus from gun smoke in it

@margaretsmith756

2 жыл бұрын

THEM was another movie that used sound really well. The sound of those critters has never failed to unnerve me. lol. :)

@tokyorose530

2 жыл бұрын

@@richelliott9320 Yes loved him as Festus in Gunsmoke. That's one of my mother's favorite shows.

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

my mom worked on Food of the Gods..... I think this might be the first time I've ever seen someone recommend it.

@tokyorose530

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuandeFucaU I enjoy the old classic movies. I know a lot of KZreadrs don't travel down the old classics rabbit hole but there's tons of gems in older films. And that's cool your mother got a chance to work on that movie.

This is my favorite Hitchcock movie! Cathy's actress Veronica Cartright had a great career, with memorable roles in 2 great movies, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Alien (1979)!

The Birds was my first Hitchcock film and it really scared me. Very suspenseful. Great reaction!! Was excited when I saw that you watched this.

Yep, this movie terrified me when I was little. It's the reason I'm not too fond of birds. They're beautiful in books.

Tippi Hedren plays a character called Melanie. Coincidentally, Tippi is the mother of Melanie Griffith. Wondering if the choice of name Melanie was influenced by her role in The Birds?

To me, the eeriest part of the movie (other than the creepy bird attacks), is there's no soundtrack, just the sounds of birds...

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely true!! A credit to the film that outside of opening credits I didn’t once think about that fact again. It was definitely a brave, and effective choice.

The sfx used for bird closeups was done by Ub Iwerks of the Disney Studios. Walt was obviously a fan of Hitchcock

I love it when people get to the end of this movie! I had the same reaction when I first saw it. BTW, the mother was played by Jessica Tandy, more famous today for starring with Morgan Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy."

The Birds is based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, who also wrote Rebecca (another Hitchcock movie).

this is probably my favorite Hitchcock film for all the reasons you've just mentioned. no matter how many times I watch it, I am still horrified but intrigued and can't stop watching. the cinematography and direction are just phenomenal and are part of what keeps it timeless. that shot of all the birds on the playground still gives me chills to this day. thanks so much for the amazing reaction! ❤️

No, the first attack on 'Tippi' was process shot. The shot of the seagull was combined with the shot of Hedren and on cue a hose blew a puff of air into her hair.

Hitchcock nearly broke Tippi Hedren. He had birds thrown at her for hours! I saw this in '77 when I was seven. I've lived with that wonderfully infuriating ending, time and time again, for 45 years, now. Enjoy, lol. This is the very best of his films. I said what I said. 😁

“Annie” is Suzanne Pleshette, a lovely actress. Fun to watch your reaction. Bodega Bay is just down the coast from me-it’s still quite the small town. Privacy was totally different in small towns, and still is sometimes.

Well Chris, you want to know what Hitch was getting at? So, picture this, your life, you carry on and try to handle the constant trials and calamities that come your way. It's chaos encroaching on your life and you staving it off to have a stable, reasonably controlled existence. In Hitch's visual story telling the birds are chaos, pecking away at your serenity. With chaos all around you it's your task to carry on with life. Mitch, his mom, Cathy and Melanie get through the chaos in a tiny little box that is their life, and the two little love birds are how much of the chaos they actually control. It's as simple as that. By the way, Veronica Cartwright, who played Cathy, was in Alien as crew member Lambert. Fun huh

No a lot of people watching this film notice the tie in with the MCU film Endgame, but the scene where the mother is challenging her son's level of knowledge, and ends with the sentence 'IF only your father were here!" shows that she thought his father was a Better Man than her son, Mitch turned out to be, is mirrored in Endgame when Star Lord tells Tony, 'That part of me that is stupid is all you.' Because he was only half human. In the Mitch scene what the mother thought less of was the part of her that was in her son.

I just discovered your channel yesterday and I have binge watched so many of your videos. I love that you are bringing attention to so many of these classics that a lot of people of our generation don't know about. Keep the good stuff coming! 😃

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Jess! Glad you’re enjoying the content, welcome to the channel. :)

The opening scene, before Hitchcock appears, was the re-creation of an early 60s TV commercial for a woman's cosmetic, where Tippi Hedren walks down the street, and someone whistles at her. Probably got her discovered for the movie.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh really? That's pretty interesting actually.

2:55 Prior to the stalking/murder of an actress in 1989, it was legal to just call the DMV and get someone's address from their license plate. A stalker did just that to find out where an actress lived (from a TV series "My Sister Sam") and killed her. Now only the police or specific authorities can look someone's info up by a license plate! On a happier note: Tippi Hedren is an animal lover and a VERY sweet lady too!

Not one of Hitchcock's best, but still pretty good for the time period. I think her sitting on the bench , smoking, outside the school and all the birds gathering on the monkey bars was classic Hitchcock

@Dacre1000

2 жыл бұрын

It is widely considered one of his best... which it is, in my humble opinion, of course.

@Progger11

2 жыл бұрын

It's one of his best in my book. It's his first truly gory, all-out horror film. He got away with far more here than with Psycho.

I do love me some Casual Nerd Reactions; your stream of consciousness and yet insightful commentary is deeply entertaining. So many quotes to choose from in this reaction, but my absolute without-a-doubt favorite is right at the end: "My voice is high and squeaky."

@CasualNerdReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks so much for this comment!

It’s been ages since I saw this. I was a kid when I did so the whole stalking thing went right over my head lol!

This fantastic film was inspired by “The Birds" - a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. The original story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall, UK shortly after the end of the Second World War.

Greetings, first time here AND IM SO GLAD you had this movie.👍🤗 happens to be my all-time favorite ALFRED HITCHCOCK flick. Melanie in real life is the mother of a tree Melanie Griffin👍🤗. Thanks for sharing…See ya at The movies 🍿

What a glorious reaction, thank you! If you watch this again, now that you know the what the action of the movie is, there is a lot more going on underneath, mainly the emotional stripping down of Melanie and the creation of a family for her, and the development of Lydia - the key scenes here are the ones with Melanie and Mitch together at the party, the Melanie scene with Lydia, and the very last snatch of a second in the car where you see Melanie's hand reach for Lydia, Lydia closing her hand around Melanie's and the look between them as the car leaves the town.

"Hello? Get me the biggest bag of birdseed you have. ...no, that's too big..."

"The Birds" is a true masterpiece of film history.

Tipi Hedren what a freaking foxxy lady she was. :) so was the other Susan Pleshette.

For the final `bird attack scene, they were supposed to use dummy birds. However, Hitchcock was angry with Tippi Hedren because she refused his advances, and so he had props people throwing real live birds at her face.