The Bird essays

The Bird essays At 1952, Dame Daphne du Maurier wrote a short story named The Birds. Maurier was born on 1907 at London, England. The idea for this famous story came to her one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily plowing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed the idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. Then at 1963 Alfred Hitchcock directed a movie The Birds which was based on Mauriers story, and an attack of birds on 1961 at Santa Cruz, California. Alfred Hitchcock, known as The Master of Suspense was born at 1899 in Leytonstone, England. Mauriers REBECCA (1938), was also filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. Although I couldnt find any thoughts of Maurier about the movie REBECCA, I found that she disliked the movie The Birds because In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food, first the seagulls, then birds of prey and finally even small birds, all tu rn against mankind. The nightmarish idea appealed to Hitchcock who turned it into the celebrated film. Daphne also particularly disliked the translation of the setting from Cornwall, with its small fields and stone hedges, to small-town America. As one above, there are many differences and similarities in this story and movie. In this essay, I will be comparising and contrasting between the story and the movie. There are many points of contrast between the story and the movie. First of all, setting of place is very different, which made Maurier to dislike the movie. In the story setting is in Cornwall, England, but in the movie, setting has been changed to small town just by San Francisco, USA. Then, character is very different too. In the story, it mainly talks about one family from four members, Jill, older child, Johnny, younger child, Nat Hocken father, and a N...