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(Kazanjian) Hitchcock
was not planning that Family Plot
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was going to be his last picture.
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But the last scene
of the picture on the staircase,
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where Barbara Harris turns
to the audience and winks,
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is something very unusual for Hitchcock,
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because it pulls us out of the movie
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and has the actors focus on you,
the audience out there in the dark.
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I thought it was fantastic. It was just
so great. And Barbara did it great.
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She was cute in the movie.
She was a very talented girl.
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I leaned to Hitch after that.
I said, "You know what, Hitch?"
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"You should go to the top of the stairs,
Barbara should look at the diamond,
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you should pan over on the stairway,
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and you should start down
the stairway."
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"Not Barbara. You."
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"And you should wink in the lights."
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He thought about it for a long time,
maybe 15 minutes,
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and then he said, "No."
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Had the world known that was going
to be his last piece of film,
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it would've been so fantastic.
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Hitchcock used Bernard Herrmann in
many of his films to write great music.
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If you look back on Hitchcock films,
music is certainly a very key ingredient.
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It is really almost his signature pattern.
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I do know before
John Williams was selected,
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he had had a falling out
with Bernard Herrmann.
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I remember in the scoring session it
was exciting to watch Williams conduct.
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And, of course, Hitchcock
was there a little bit of the time.
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Mr Hitchcock had his office at Universal
Studios, and so he apparently needed
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a composer for this Family Plot,
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and the executive those years
in charge of music
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was a gentleman called Harry Garfield.
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So, it was Harry Garfield
who recommended me as a newcomer
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just having done Jaws,
a very successful film, to Mr Hitchcock.
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And I went to see him at his office,
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and we had lunch
and had a chat and I left