About Sabotage 0 ▲ cultural snow 43 minutes ago · Writing · hide I don’t know how those extremely short blurbs for movies on TV streaming platforms are generated. Are they thrown together by the work experience kind or are they just farmed out to AI, which then pretends to be the work experience kid?Whatever the case, it doesn’t appear to be anybody/thing that is experienced in discourse around cinema. Look at this example, for the 1937 thriller Sabotage, which on Amazon Prime is described as “Hitchcockian”. Now anyone who spends too much time talking about movies knows what it means to describe one as Hitchcockian. You know the tropes: paranoia, heights, voyeurism, a blonde, a MacGuffin. Anything that reminds you of films directed by Alfred Hitchcock: Brian de Palma, Claude Chabrol, Parasite, Witness for the Prosecution, Charade. Crucially, however, it’s not actually applied to films that Hitchcock himself made. They’re just called Hitchcock films.And this is a problem, because Sabotage was actually made by Hitchcock, based on Conrad’s The Secret… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
