Well, not exactly. But in his "Picture of the Week" feature on his chatty blog, Peter Bogdanovich — who directed one of the great pictures of my youth, The Last Picture Show — has some interesting thoughts from Hitch on nature and revenge re: The Birds:
When I asked Hitch what he felt the movie was really about, he answered, “Generally speaking, that people are too complacent…” With the essentially inconsequential nature of the characters and the somewhat comedic quality of the beginning, Hitchcock said, he meant “To epitomize the fripperies of people, the lightness with which they live, their lack of concern about the fact that nature can turn on them.” To me, it has always seemed like the director’s way of saying that no matter what we may do, Mother Earth somehow would eventually have her revenge.
The recent hurricanes and earthquakes and tsunamis the world over, the generally terrible air, all the other obvious results of global warming, only prove how prescient, metaphorically speaking, Hitchcock really was nearly half a century ago.
And here's Hitch himself in the trailer, dryly enjoying our ruthlessness, and our just deserts — "The awk, the famous passenger pigeon, and the dodo bird have all disappeared. Actually, they didn't disappear, but were simply killed off. But of course, this is nature's way. Man merely hurries the process along whenever he can be of help."
Global warming is really destroying our mother earth. It is totally changing our climate now a days. Thank you for sharing.
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