Dear Mr Hitchcock,
Over the weekend I watched the latest film based on you and Alma’s life during the making of Psycho – Hitchcock. After watching that, I thought it might be a good idea to write a letter to you.
The world today is way more diverse than your days, there is a thing called globalization going on. Back in your time, you can get away with just having white people and blondes in the stories, I don’t think that would represent the face of today’s society. Also you probably never expected a Chinese girl and her little brother would be glued to the TV set and fascinated by your television series titled Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
The first time my brother and I watched your TV shows was in our 30 square meter flat in a city footed at the north west part of China. Our local TV station from time to time selected some of the best films and TV series. 20 years later when I think back, I thank the person who chose your series to broadcast. It was a favorite by my family.
I remember my brother and I would rush home from schools during lunch break, my mum would prepare us a delicious lunch. We sat in our little living room in front of the old TV set. We waited patiently for a dark figure to appear on the screen and speak slowly about the story we were about to see. That time I didn’t know your name, but my brother and I know that when the fat Englishman appear on TV (excuse my rudeness), we are guaranteed to have a good hour of SUSPENSE.
For some reason, I dont remember if the TV series was subtitled in Chinese or dubbed . Never the less, we get the whole story quite well. It was the time when our imagination ran wild, watched people who dressed completely different from us, looked different, lived differently. What a great gateway to another world, full of thrills, suspense and excitements. When the age of VCD arrived, we also rented your films to watch. I have a fear of birds and when I watched the film “Bird”, all my horrors came alive on that little TV screen.
In the movie “Hitchcock”, it seems you were worried people did not like your films.It is curious that even the geniuses experience the fear of failure, fear their work and effort not being noticed and appreciated. How interesting ! It reassured me again that being fearful is normal, the most brave are the ones carry on with fear, charging forward.
Thanks for making so many great stories, it makes this world a more interesting place to be. In your stories, people can be horrible and twisted. It makes me wonder the darkness inside each of us. The world today have all sorts of problems, you have lived through World War one and two. Things are not much better today. Just like the characters in your films, we all have our crosses to bear. Its a struggle in each day to choose between good and evil. It reflects to the world we live in .
I wonder the place you are at now, do you still make lots of wonderful stories to entertain and shock others around you? I bet you are ! Lucky them ….
Yours faithfully
A fan
LIYANG'S THOUGHTS 