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In the movie The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock as well as in the short story “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier, nature wreaks havoc on human beings. ... The residents of the towns are brutally attacked by birds that increase in viciousness with every attack. ... “The Birds” story and The Birds movie have more differences than similarities.
Nat Hocken notices there are more birds than usual, over land and sea. Nat Hocken tries to protect his wife, his daughter Jill and his son Johnny from the unexpected brutal attack of seagulls, robins, finches, sparrows, larks and other types of birds. These are birds that normally stayed within their own flocks and territories and now had joined forces in their attack on mankind. In the movie, Mitch Brenner tries to protect his mother, Lydia, his sister Cathy and his girl friend Melanie Daniels from the attack of birds of all kinds. ...
“The Birds” is a short story written by Daphne du Maurier in 1952. ...
“ “The Birds” is a wholly atmospheric story, beautifully paced and unmarred by
the intricacies of plot, which sometimes spoiled Daphne’s original ideas. The
tension of birds attacking humans in hordes is sustained throughout. The birds
themselves, shuttling on window-sills, pecking at glass panes, swooping in from
the sea in millions, are horrifyingly real. “The Birds,” wrote Victor Gollancz, is
a masterpiece. ... Hitchcock took little from the story besides the basic idea of birds attacking. ...
Alfred Hitchcock produced and directed the movie The Birds. ... “The Birds was an enormously complicated film at every step of the process. Regardless where one might stand on just where The Birds critically fits in the Hitchcock canon,
all must concede the film is a technical achievement.
Approximate Word count = 1303
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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