@@crimsonpearl4686Our generation invented a thing called the Internet for the Whippersnappers like yourself. You could look it up what it means on the... err.... Internet.
@randithompson65172 жыл бұрын
I'm 21 years old and watched this movie for the first time yesterday on a whim. I don't typically leave comments about movies online, but I thought this scene was so amazing I had to say something! The way that the tension was built using the singing and different camera shots... I could feel the dread growing inside me. Made me feel more suspense than any modern horror movie has before. Truly wonderful!!
@eduardo_corrochio2 жыл бұрын
It is a brilliant sequence, isn't it? I like a lot of Hitchcock's movies, particularly the scary and suspenseful ones. But I also have a soft spot for Vertigo, which is a haunting romantic mystery about what people will do for love. But to get back to The Birds-- it's so cool that you found a film that had such a powerful affect on you.
@athanassioszotos1713 Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the Hitch fan club young one..
@kangenwaterradio6978Ай бұрын
Laughing out Loud!!!!
@jamesdrynan3 жыл бұрын
The brilliant editing of this scene starts at 2:00 when the audience is informed of the impending danger while she remains unaware. This ramps up the tension. The children's singing underscores the edginess of the moment. Every shot of Hedren from this point on pushes the camera closer to her. At 2:50, an excruciatingly long closeup of her lasts 26 seconds. The viewer knows what is happening but she only sees the flight of one bird and follows it to the jungle gym horror behind her. All of this accomplished in one and a half minutes. Exquisite tension!! Masterful!
@curupaco10 ай бұрын
Obrigado pela aula 😮
@lewis75158 ай бұрын
We know? Like, we can actually watch what's happening in the video player...- are you aware of this?
@mikemorbid17527 жыл бұрын
This is a masterful scene. Many modern horror directors should learn from it.
@tuscanyiscol4 жыл бұрын
Almost all of them did! Even if they didn't know it.
@TRINZINI4 жыл бұрын
Brian DePalma sure did !
@magicdaisies52423 жыл бұрын
@@TRINZINI That angle where she follows the bird with her eyes, reminds me of Carrie when she follows the rope to the bucket above her head.
@Bowser647983 жыл бұрын
Me and my grandma saw similarities between the part when they attack the students and Jurassic world. i wonder if that was an homage.
@deanwille81303 жыл бұрын
I agree
@goback3spaces7 жыл бұрын
With that damn song they're singing, I'd attack them too.
@danielledebock8815 жыл бұрын
Lmfao ! I had to turn the volume down because of the song
@Arcturian11114 жыл бұрын
That songs kicks ass...
@santanaglover68314 жыл бұрын
Lmfao 🤣
@Unownshipper4 жыл бұрын
@Night shade That's the point of this movie's horror: you never get a satisfying answer why. It just happened and the victims had to deal with it and the idea that it could happen again is haunting.
@Boldorion19583 жыл бұрын
@@Arcturian1111 The song is "The Wee Cooper of Fife" and it's also used as the tune for a Scottish country dance of the same name.
@youtubeviewer70303 жыл бұрын
The song the children are singing at the school as the crows mass outside is known as "Risseldy Rosseldy", an Americanized variation of the Scottish folk song "Wee Cooper O'Fife".
@michaeltrower741 Жыл бұрын
The lyrics are absolutely bizarre, completely in line with the theme of the film.
@rtususian3 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite scene from the entire movie. I love how she is calmly sitting, then lights a cigarette. Then she happens to spot one crow and immediately her radar is on.
@michaelhughes15044 жыл бұрын
This scene is as pure Hitchcock as they come. The reaction shot of Hedren at 3:30 is perfection
@casparuskruger48073 жыл бұрын
After seeing this movie several times over the years, I started getting the impression that in most of the scenes people just reacting to situations and doing the wrong things in every situation throughout. It must have been AH's little joke just showing how people are just dumb--no matter where you go. That scene later on in the diner is hilarious. This lady ornithologist.( who just HAPPENS to show up at this moment in the film ) is talking about bird habits and others are joining in in the conversation. This lady sitting at a table with two children, is in complete panic-mode, acting like a Karen and going on about how everyone "Is scaring the children" when SHE is the one scared out of her wits and the kids are just staring off into space indifferent to the whole situation.
@cynthiahusband1067 ай бұрын
Hitchcock was ahead of his time , the movie beautifully photographed is made by the master , only he , at the time could bring sheer horror to a movie , a true masterpiece of film making. The sheer horror of ( the birds taking flight) and marry it to the sheer innocence of the children about to be lead out of school, leading them to absolute danger , the genius of Hitchcock.
@risqueclay3 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite "Oh shit" movie scene.
@pwj867727 жыл бұрын
The music makes the scene so much creepier
@hennessydirt14585 жыл бұрын
CloseProximity no it makes it annoying as shiy
@MVR3265 жыл бұрын
The combination of such an innocent sounding song, and the visuals of the Crows gathering in masses , is very unsettling and scary
@marp47355 жыл бұрын
CloseProximity yeah I’ve played music that’s sung in a minor key for my preschoolers, they end up looking at me like I’m a monster saying *CREEPPPPYYYYY*
@derpmaster61474 жыл бұрын
paul jk that would destroy the point of the scene, it’s like that to add suspense and dread, all a jumpscare would do is take out the dread and looming fear of the scene and replace it with a cheap easy scare
@jangallagher44204 жыл бұрын
Mary Walsh Philippus 8
@Grappler19987 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell that was great, I got genuine chills when the camera panned to show all the birds.
@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl6 жыл бұрын
I got the chills when that first bird appeared.
@TRINZINI3 жыл бұрын
One of the elements that makes this scene (and the whole film) work : the total ABSENCE of music.
@TheMillieSmalls3 жыл бұрын
And also the birds.
@Xstrangis3 жыл бұрын
There’s literally kids singing a song in the background that’s not absence of music the children singing sort of makes the scene creepier than it is
@MiloDC3 жыл бұрын
Not sure you understand what music is.
@TRINZINI3 жыл бұрын
@@MiloDC ANYONE who knows about filmmaking understands what I mean (and that includes the 26 thumbs up above ;) I'm talking, of course, about the absence of NON DIEGETIC music (Look it up in Google )
@matthewbuckley77572 жыл бұрын
Same her while I like Psycho I prefer this movie due to the creepy ambiance. Love atmospheric horror.
@daniels_a3 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest scenes of cinema.
@armchabu51192 жыл бұрын
Title song is "Risseldy, Rosseldy" :) love this movie from Thai Fans !!!!!
@Bryankirshon5 ай бұрын
interesting
@sidviscus Жыл бұрын
It was definitely the kids' singing that drew the birds. They were like "stop singing already!"
@mikehudson88844 жыл бұрын
Such a stunningly beautiful classy lady and still is 2020
@jarrodbarkley90613 жыл бұрын
It's the song that doesn't end!
@timothysprengeler4071 Жыл бұрын
They repeat a couple of verses here, I am guessing to fill the time.
@djm55 Жыл бұрын
The song is the spookiest part of the sequence. In fact, it's the only "music" in the film. There is no music soundtrack to The Birds. Bernard Hermann used synthesized bird sounds and the like for the "soundtrack." Hitchcock thought it was much more unsettling than using a traditional score. I think he's right. The lack of music, and dialog punctuated by bizarre and terrifying electronic bird sounds certainly gives the movie a jarring feel.
@thedecmyster13 жыл бұрын
I take my hat off too Tippi Hedren I could never have done this film with having a bird phobia, the worst is the attic scene at the end
@sweetcrimson1446 жыл бұрын
I loved how this scene built up the suspense. Melanie is smoking a cigarette while the crows land on the jungle gym. She then happens to look up and see one fly and land. Then you see a whole crowd of them on the swings and jungle gym. Then she slowly gets up and walks quickly to the school to warn the teacher. Hitchcock was a genius!
@Kim-ss5bb6 ай бұрын
Genius but not a nice man on many accounts
@adambuckmaster62482 жыл бұрын
One of the best "oh fxxk" reactions ever, no words, gasps or anything. She looked absolutely terrified for herself and the children. She registered what was going to happen before she finished standing up.
@jenesis55 Жыл бұрын
first time a normal decision was made in a horror movie
@annieo69194 жыл бұрын
My mother loved this part of the movie her and my brother and I would watch it when I was little I'm now 44 .RIP Mommy 2016 Meow Meow Meow
@donnapelletier97225 жыл бұрын
I came upon this movie recently while going through stations. I missed about 10 minutes of it. Brought back memories of me watching it while home alone in my tweens about 50 years ago. Scary ! Great movie !
@janetstout8092 Жыл бұрын
The kids singing in the background make it soooo creepy, Alfred Hitchcock the master of horror.
@stevewilliams38502 жыл бұрын
I'll be seventy years old this August, 2022. I've seen all kinds of horror movies my entire life; but this playground scene with these birds still scares me more than any scene from any movie I've seen since before this movie, and since. How the birds slowly congregate on the playground is like they have some kind of hive mind.
@louisristaino59733 жыл бұрын
Great scene, tippi hedren, Suzanne pleshette, the kids singing amazing. Great directing by Hitchcock
@Brookside9753 жыл бұрын
LOVE the Aston Martin DB2!
@MrHorror19716 жыл бұрын
Birdie, birdie, in the sky Dropped some white stuff in my eye, I'm a big girl, I won't cry, I'm just glad that cows don't fly
@finster19685 жыл бұрын
Or... Birdie birdie in the sky Why’d you do that in my eye? Tastes like sugar, looks like sap. What do you know, it’s birdie crap!
@aeromodeller13 жыл бұрын
Dinosaurs.
@BarbiePrincessJ4 жыл бұрын
This song always gets stuck in my head for dayss after I hear this part 😆 "NOW! NOW! NOW!"
@Clara-ph7my2 жыл бұрын
This scene is unforgettable. You think of this movie 'The Birds' and automatically this scene will come to your head. Actually a few weeks ago my back garden was full of crows. Even my daughter came t me and said "How many birds in the back garden?" I looked out and said "Blimey it's like a scene from the film". The next door neighbours garden and fences were full of birds also. Obviously resting from migration but this movie sticks with you forever.
@timothius503 жыл бұрын
That's probably the best editing sequence ever.
@vickjr984 жыл бұрын
The way the birds were flocking up on the gym bars scared me lol
@invisiblemaninvisibleman20975 жыл бұрын
I’m in awe of how stunning this woman was....impeccably perfect
@bobcostas62723 жыл бұрын
This. Women were so much more graceful and beautiful back then.
@Kim-ss5bb2 жыл бұрын
@@bobcostas6272 And natural
@antonrowell6627 Жыл бұрын
She was gorgeous
@LeituraFilmica7 жыл бұрын
And even on the more superficial level, the song fits this specific scene, as it works adding words to it, similar to the crows that are arriving one by one.
@anauticalgate54965 жыл бұрын
It's the Americanized version of a rather dark Scottish folk song "Wee Cooper O'Fife"
@JayJay-nc7pr6 ай бұрын
This and the Carousel scene in Strangers on a Train have to be the most thrilling and unnerving scenes in any Hitchcock film, both scenes out children in mortal peril in a everyday situation
@bps30135 жыл бұрын
Absolute masterpiece.
@hoobananaz Жыл бұрын
The song is so annoying/unnerving and that is the point. Just when you can’t take any more, you see them-her silent reaction is cinematic perfection. No screaming, nothing. Silence, the ever present singing and the BIRDS!
@AlexLikesToons4 жыл бұрын
This is truly well-crafted horror. No need to implement a cheap jump scare. When you establish an atmosphere, build suspense, and give the viewer the context they need to interpret the implications of a scene, anything can be scary. I will never forget the chills I got when I saw that crow land on a jungle gym full of birds.
@AlexLikesToons4 жыл бұрын
@Night shade I don't really feel that it needs to be explained. The birds just decide to attack one day because it makes the film a lot more terrifying. If the characters knew why the birds were attacking, it would be easier to predict their behavior. But when you don't understand what their motivation is, you can't predict what they will do next and that can make it way more scary. Fear of the unknown.
@andrewbrendan15793 жыл бұрын
@@AlexLikesToons In Daphne Du Maurier's short story "The Birds"---which is even more frightening than the movie---if my memory is right, the attacks of the birds corresponded with the ocean tides. The short story takes place in Cornwall, England, shortly after World War II so the movie is quite different but both story and movie are brilliant. Alfred Hitchcock made a movie on the premise of the story and not a dramatization of the story itself.
@nicolejttmom60612 жыл бұрын
i love the way the camera meditates on her beautiful face. it reminds me of how a child looks upon the face of it's mother, basking in her beauty and reading it for clues regarding her mood.
@scottclemons83652 жыл бұрын
I agree with the previous commenters. This scene is just brilliant and it demonstrates what a genius filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock truly was. I just love this scene, the way he builds up the tension.
@leighjeffrey34765 жыл бұрын
The best 4 minutes of film making ever IMO.
@cenoviopereira86034 жыл бұрын
2 min and 30 seconds really haha jk but completely agree with you
@louisristaino59733 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more really. The kids, Tippi hedren and Suzanne pleshette. Plus Hitchcock directing
@nicolejttmom6061 Жыл бұрын
God I love this movie. I watched it so many times when I was little. It always appealed to me as it was the animals/birds getting some revenge on humans who inflict so much torment and death on them. Hitchcock was a monster, but a genius still. The way he keeps the camera on Tippi Hedren's beautiful face always reminds me of how I would gaze at my beloved mother's perfect face, scrutinizing her beauty, trying to know her inner thoughts and moods.
@mimicrybypravesh4 жыл бұрын
Love this song.
@passwordbosco4076 жыл бұрын
This song so annoyed the birds that they attacked the school. They were thinking, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.... ;)
@lisascarrott61422 жыл бұрын
Fabulous acting throughout
@grinsekatzenkanal2246 жыл бұрын
2:01 I knew exactly how this would end on the first time I saw this movie ... And I loved it, THAT SCENE REALLY SCARED ME!
@skelebones94364 жыл бұрын
OML, my heart almost stopped on the scene where it showed all of the crows on the play equipment
@eduardo_corrochio2 жыл бұрын
Cannot imagine this sequence without the Risselty Rosselty song in the background. If that tune was missing, this would be half as suspenseful. The song is just a little bit of music featured in this film (Melanie plays piano in one scene at the Brenner home, etc); there's no background score, deliberately. I suppose this gathering of birds is what we'd call a murder of crows.
@McIntyreBible5 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of the scenes in movie history!
@Johnny53kgb-nsa2 жыл бұрын
I remember the Bird's coming to our small town little movie theater. The build up to seeing the movie may have been scarier than the movie.
@2015dwayne5 жыл бұрын
Outstanding and brilliant piece of work. Still holds its own against the best out there today. Classic.
@Bryankirshon Жыл бұрын
my favorite scene
@cathleensvatosky33366 жыл бұрын
Amazing part! I love it. cool song, fits the scene. ..
@jorgecollantes4 жыл бұрын
I watched this movie with my family when I was a kid, in our old B&W tv. That scene with the kids in the school still frightens me!
@BlackBirdBlitz7 жыл бұрын
As an Atlanta Falcon fan... I approve of this message.
@roBEARtoEHarwoodJrКүн бұрын
The lyrics of this song are kinda crazy now that I hear them... I love this though... I've been there at the actual building, it still makes me so happy... Soooo classic!!!
@pisceslove910 ай бұрын
This was so scary to me as a kid but at the same time I loved it lol. The buildup of this scene was phenomenal! This will always be one of my top favorite thriller movies. Hitchcock was a genius.👌🏾😊
@dfa33664 жыл бұрын
The school is still there and it looks almost the same. In Psycho the old mansion was on the back lot. This is an actual school.
@gregingram49963 жыл бұрын
That song they're singing is the only music in the entire movie! There's no other background music at all, even in the opening and closing credits!
@e.jenima72632 жыл бұрын
I think the song the children re singing is to teach and instill correct word Pronunciation. A good movie , have not watched it in years but i kindda want to again.
@kooj224 жыл бұрын
A masterpiece in cinema and horror!
@michaelbrinkers11452 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, most young people will only see this film (and others pre-1990) on small screens, including high-def home theaters., which comes nowhere near the experience of a large theater screen at a movie "palace".
@Zenjedi99v25 жыл бұрын
I just watched this again not too long ago & this song got stuck in my head. Talk about a creepy ear worm.
@jimmydcap4 жыл бұрын
Tippy quit smoking decades ago. That's why she is still alive today.
@timothysprengeler4071 Жыл бұрын
I believe she was a regular smoker when this movie was made but quit a few years later.
@blue33814 жыл бұрын
This scene is so well done that I never noticed (until now) that this "school" only has one class and the kids all appear to be the same age.
@daveyparks38724 жыл бұрын
IM SO GLAD SOMEBODY ELSE NOTICED THIS
@andrewbrendan15793 жыл бұрын
If the birds happened in real life there may have been the situation in which the older children, middle school and up, were attending a consolidated school somewhere else in the area. In such a small town I can see that there may have been a mix of elementary school students of different ages and grades in just one room. Though many years before this story takes place, my great-grandmother taught school in a country chapel and the students would have been in a range of different ages.
@jtrain56153 жыл бұрын
@@andrewbrendan1579 That's a very plausible way to justify it, as when Tippy steps in, we can see that there could easily be other classrooms on the first and second floor. Still, it's Hitchcock's genius for storytelling that we never question how there seems to be only one adult and one classroom full of ten year olds in the whole school building.
@blue33813 жыл бұрын
@@andrewbrendan1579 I'd buy that scenario. Another, is that it could have been a Saturday, and the kids in Annie's class were there rehearsing for a special event. Jessica Tandy could have clarified it before sending Tippi off to collect her.
@blue33813 жыл бұрын
@@jtrain5615 I agree. The film is so stylishly shot and Bodega Bay is presented so idyllically that you don't question it. *I didn't notice until about the 30th time I saw the film.
@Robert-zx2ir2 жыл бұрын
Extraordinary
@northsea67893 жыл бұрын
In the late 70s when i was a kid living in Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, I saw hundreds of large black birds, not sure what type they were, perched along the power lines and i was crapping myself thinking they would attack us.
@Eltonlaleham2 ай бұрын
I wish I had been born in 1963 instead of been born in 1969
@Uta_Chandra.H Жыл бұрын
Its refreshing to hear the characters instead of listening to soundtracks going full blast on my speakers!
@andigossweiler15514 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, to your 90th!!
@jazzman6884 жыл бұрын
It always bothered me that Daniels never changed her clothes. That's why the birds attacked
@poodledreams3 ай бұрын
3:30 No matter how many times I watch this I get chills, the moment Melanie realises the birds are there to attack the children, it's not simply an animal attack, this is premeditated.
@curupaco10 ай бұрын
Fixo imaginando o tanto que esse filme deve ter traumatizados as pessoas naquela época. E o filme mostra um inimigo tão proximo as pessoas, então elas deviam ver os pássaros com tensao. Pois não era tão comum filmes de terror com criaturas, depois desse filme que tornou-se mais comum e veio filmes de serpentes, aranhas, morcegos, lobos, até formigas assassinas .
@Bryankirshon10 ай бұрын
when she's in the phone booth i lost it lol
@oneandonlyjaybee2 жыл бұрын
Them poor kids had to sing that song for about half an hour
@Kim-ss5bb5 жыл бұрын
She was so beautiful and a good actress back when women were natural, I don't mind birds but if I saw that many all together I would freak out too
@rosie63 ай бұрын
She is stunning wow
@antoinemozart2432 жыл бұрын
Amazing !
@mrjacob10002 жыл бұрын
They didn't call Alfred Hitchcock the master of suspense for nothing
@lienschen68445 жыл бұрын
Einer der besten Filme von Alfred hitchcook
@JaniceCarter-ws7lu7 ай бұрын
Me minus the cigarette waiting for the Ravens/49ers game to end so I can go to sleep..💚 CONGRATULATIONS Ravens💜🖤 on your win that everyone thought you weren't going to get..😊 Merry Christmas, Baltimore✨️
@Bryankirshon Жыл бұрын
Bird is the word.
@Drazzz27 Жыл бұрын
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
@costernochtАй бұрын
Great wordless acting on Tippi Hedren's part.
@Bryankirshon2 жыл бұрын
tippy hedren runs a big cat rescue in southern California called shambala
the only imperfection of the scene is, when the kids turn their heads...no one is singing
@alicaramba76804 жыл бұрын
Singing happens in her mind. You should understand whole scene is fake, none of children actually did sing at all.
@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona4 жыл бұрын
Ali Caramba is she insane?
@ThreeFortySeven8 ай бұрын
The song that never ends.
@timothysprengeler4071 Жыл бұрын
I love the use of Risselty Rosselty, a nonsense song based on the Scottish folk song The Wee Cooper of Fife, in this scene. I distinctly remember singing a slightly different version of that song in school when I was a kid. I still remember that when I was a teenager in the late 1980's, this film and Psycho were on TV as a Hitchcock double feature. My parents let me watch The Birds with them but would not let me watch Psycho. Needless to say, The Birds is now my favorite Hitchcock movie, and to this day I have still not seen Psycho.,
@johntate505010 ай бұрын
The lack of music makes it really weird and creepy.
@jrb49357 ай бұрын
You didn't hear the song?
@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl7 жыл бұрын
The first time I watched this movie, I gasped when the crow appeared behind her.
@seanmcgivney76313 жыл бұрын
The best 👌
@simply39310 ай бұрын
I can't be the only one who thinks this would go hard on some typa beat
@criscusack4 жыл бұрын
What song IS that? Sounds like it's some kind of additive progression-type song along the lines of Hole in the Bottom of the Sea or Partridge in a Pear Tree.
@matteusconnollius12036 жыл бұрын
I love this song
@badtaco146 жыл бұрын
Conservative Child I can tell from your party why.
@josebro352 Жыл бұрын
Tippi named her daughter (Melanie Griffith) after this character
@finzondoke6 жыл бұрын
That song gives me the creeps.
@AndresGarcia-gt3qu4 жыл бұрын
What is the song?
@robynfindley76233 жыл бұрын
I am watching this movie on Turner classic movies now and its a good movie but as I watch it again i think i like it more than before although psycho and marnie are still my favorite Hitchcock movie and can anyone tell me what is this song they are singing? It's hard understand every word.
@timothysprengeler4071 Жыл бұрын
It is "Risseldy Rosseldy," an American adaptation of the Scottish folk song "The Wee Cooper of Fife."