{"id":14,"date":"2008-10-30T01:16:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almostwp\/?p=14"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:24:38","slug":"kaleidoscopefrenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/archives\/14","title":{"rendered":"Kaleidoscope\/Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Benn Levy<\/strong><br \/>\nAlfred Hitchcock was intrigued by the style of French and Italian &#8220;new wave&#8221; directors of the late 60s. He devised a story of a sexual predator, to be shot in a dressed-down documentary style. Some test footage (which can be seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0202907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dial H for Hitchcock<\/a>) was shot, but the studio balked. Hitch was imprisoned by his own reputation. As much as he may have wanted to experiment, the backers preferred a typical Hitchcock suspense movie. The script, (sections of which are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hitchcocks-Notebooks-Authorized-Illustrated-Hitchcock\/dp\/0380799456\/maddogmovies-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitchcock&#8217;s Notebooks<\/a>) was alternately called &#8220;Kaleidoscope&#8221; and &#8220;Frenzy.&#8221; Years later, Hitch recycled certain ideas for his 1973 film, <strong>Frenzy<\/strong>, but it was not the same story overall.  Find out more at Steven DeRosa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stevenderosa.com\/writingwithhitchcock\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writing with Hitchcock<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Benn Levy Alfred Hitchcock was intrigued by the style of French and Italian &#8220;new wave&#8221; directors of the late 60s. He devised a story of a sexual predator, to be shot in a dressed-down documentary style. Some test footage (which can be seen in Dial H for Hitchcock) was shot, but the studio balked&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,43,12],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-produced","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-benn-levy","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}