Shadow of a Doubt
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Something... nobody knows?
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Something secret and wonderful.
I'll find it out.

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(Chuckles) It's not good
to find out too much, Charlie.

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But we're like twins, don't you see?
We have to know.

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Give me your hand, Charlie.
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(Wright) The interesting thing
about Shadow of a Doubt

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is the twins theme,
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like when she says, "We really
are twins. We think things the same."

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One piece of direction
I absolutely do remember,

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I was just lying on a bed
some way or other, having a rest.

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He said, "No, I want you to lie there
with your handsbehind your head."

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He told me exactly how it was,
but he explained why.

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Because," he said, "we are going
to come from a shot of Uncle Charlie

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lying on the bed."
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"I want this duplicated."
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Those kinds of things make it harder
for young Charlie and the audience

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to accept him as anything except
this charming uncle of hers.

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(Bogdanovich) Well, Hitchcock,
right from the beginning,

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his earliest work to the end,
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seemed to be very concerned about
making the villain not a cliché,

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giving the villain a great deal of
character and uniqueness

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as opposed to, you know,
the guy that flicks the moustache.

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In Shadow of a Doubt ,
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Hitchcock goes out of his way to give
him as much depth as possible.

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The idea of smoke,
or the idea of him taking over.

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He does seem to take over
the home, the family.

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(Wright)
Hitchcock sees it in his head first.

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He makes sure that there's
that smoke coming out of...

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It might seem easy to read
too much into a Hitchcock film

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but it always balances out.
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You can always prove it. It's always so.
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And I don't think it's ever an accident.
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I think he sees it that way.
He sees it in his head first.


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