Hitchcock's Influence on Scorsese and J. Lee Thompson

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by a criminal, now set free. The criminal's cleverness and sheer force of vengeance and will injects horror into the image of comfortable, suburban tenderness.
The first "Cape Fear's" technical uses of camera angles have also caused many film critics to call it "Hitchcockian" as well. But this broad designation neglects another, additional aspect to Hitchcock's use of suspense -his simultaneous embrace of the grotesque. Not only does Hitchcock use the ordinary and make it suspenseful and/or horrific. He injects a brutal sense of British humor into the proceedings, from Norman Bates' frizzy wig, to the squawking caged lovebirds of "The Birds."
The American director Martin Scorsese shares Hitchcock's use of humor. Technically, Scorsese is less apt to use sharp camera angles than Hitchcock. His camera is more apt to linger as well as to jump cut. It is difficult, for instance, to imagine Hitchcock filming the long, sensuous scene where Robert De Niro seduces the daughter of ...

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