{"id":38214,"date":"2025-01-21T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38214"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:47:44","slug":"becoming-hitchcock-the-legacy-of-blackmail-2024-written-directed-by-laurent-bouzereau-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38214","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail&#8221; (2024) written &amp; directed by Laurent Bouzereau \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z012125zview_becominghitch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Laurent Bouzereau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Laurent Bouzereau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Elvis Mitchell<\/strong> (narrator),<strong> Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Balsam, Raymond Burr, Anthony Dawson, John Gavin, Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren, Grace Kelly, Martin Landau, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Curtiss Cook, Eva Marie Saint<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>James Stewart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laurent Bouzereau explores how Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s 1929 film <em>Blackmail<\/em> foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that would make Hitchcock one of the world&#8217;s most famous directors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Blackmail<\/em> was made right as silent films were transitioning to &#8220;talkies&#8221;.\u00a0 Hitchcock made <em>Blackmail<\/em> to be shown in either format.\u00a0 To accomplish this some scenes were shot differently.\u00a0 This documentary showcases the scenes side by side.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a die hard Hitchcock fan, this is for you.\u00a0 If not, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z012125zview_becominghitch2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail (2024) Director: \u00a0Laurent Bouzereau Screenplay: Laurent Bouzereau Stars: Elvis Mitchell (narrator), Alfred Hitchcock, Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38215,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214\/revisions\/38215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}