Shadow of a Doubt
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You see them in the best hotels
every day by the thousands,

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drinking the money, eating the money,
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losing the money at bridge,
playing all day and all night,

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smelling of money.
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(Bogdanovich)
That speech is very shocking.

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Even today, you look at it and you say,
Wow, that's pretty strong stuff."

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Horrible,
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faded, fat, greedy women.
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(Charlie) But they're alive!
They're human beings!

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Are they?
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I think the interesting thing
about Shadow of a Doubt is that

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it was one of the two movies
where actually the villain is the hero,

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as in Psycho .
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(Bogdanovich) That's one of the things
you can characterise about Hitchcock

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is this kind of empathy for the devil.
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(Emma) Joe, it's Herbert.
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He always comes when we're eating.
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(Wright) The other thing
I love about Hitchcock's films

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is that no matter how serious
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or how tragic or desperate
or scary the film is,

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it's always mixed up with humour.
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It's the humour that
gives the edge to the horror.

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The humour makes you feel safe.
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After having been slightly scared,
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you feel very safe and you're laughing,
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and then, bang, there's
something there that hits you.

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I know what you are, really.
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You're a detective.
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There's something the matter,
and you're a detective.

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- Charlie, listen.
- I don't want to listen.

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(Boyle) He once said
if he got in trouble with a scene,

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he would always try to think
of a good dirty joke,

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because a dirty joke
had a pertect construction.

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It had a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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And it's true. (Chuckles)
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He loved, uh... He loved
that kind of succinct storytelling.

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If I brought you some mushrooms,
would you eat them, Joe?

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I suppose I would. Why?
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Then I've got it. You see?
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The worst I'd be accused of would be
manslaughter. Doubt if I'd get that.


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