Director Byun Young-joo, humiliated after doing like 'Hitchcock' "I appeared in a cameo but was edited"

Director Byeon Young-joo of the movie 'Hwacha' cited cameo appearances as a common ground with director Hitchcock, the master of suspense.

On the 26th, EBS broadcasted 'Stories you don't know, person discussion' (hereafter referred to as 'person discussion'), we had time to look at Alfred Hitchcock's reversal side, a master of suspense. Bae Jeong-jae, Jang Do-yeon, Professor Kwak Jae-sik and film director Byun Young-joo who directed the movie 'Hwacha' appeared.

Director Hitchcock, who is still a textbook for filmmakers, is also famous for making cameo appearances in his films. It turned out that his first cameo appearance was to promote his own film. Director Byun Young-joo introduced the fact that when a new film was released, the audience played a game of searching for Hitchcock's cameo, and revealed that he also appeared in his movie 'Hitchcock' as a surprise. However, all the cast burst into laughter when he revealed that all of the cameo shots he appeared in were edited because of his poor acting skills.

Director Hitchcock is a director who devoted his heart and soul to the perfection of his films to the extent that he even chose the props. On this day's broadcast, an anecdote was introduced about ordering various watermelons to deliver vivid sound effects during the filming of the movie 'Psycho'. The sound of stabbing the main character, who received relatively little attention due to the violin melody, was the sound of a watermelon being crushed. Director Byun Young-joo burst into laughter by revealing, "I was the first part edited because I was so bad at acting."

Hitchcock, who was the first to try many film techniques, laid the foundation for many film directors to pay homage to. Director Steven Spielberg followed the filming method in the movie 'Jaws', and explained as an example that Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' is similar to the opening of Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'.

An anecdote is told of a young Hitchcock living at the same time as Jack the Ripper and showing interest in murder. Leyton Stone in England, where Hitchcock lived, was a residential area for workers located near London. Hitchcock grew up listening to the criminal cases that customers talked about because of his grandfather's background as a greengrocer, but his twist was that he was a coward.

It is said that Hitchcock, who believed that “listening to movies with your ears is the most important thing,” bought all kinds of watermelons and recorded them for the sound of a knife stabbing himself in the shower scene of “Psycho.” Director Byun Young-joo told an anecdote that after stabbing watermelon, muskmelon, cantaloupe melon, and nectar melon in turn, it was the muskmelon that was chosen as the sound effect for 'Psycho'.

Director Hitchcock, who entered Hollywood with 'Rebecca' in 1940, is a genius, but at the same time, there was another aspect of reversal that could not be praised only as a genius. It was the prank that went beyond the limit and put the actors in trouble. During the filming of the movie '39 Steps', an anecdote was revealed in which the male and female protagonists joked about losing the key to the handcuffs even though they filmed while being handcuffed. In particular, during the filming of the movie 'Bird', she tricked the female lead, Tippi Hedren, into filming with a real bird, not an artificial bird, and ended up in a hospital. All the cast members were astonished at Hitchcock's behavior, saying that it was a joke that crossed the line.

I was able to meet Hitchcock's pathetic wife, not a film director. He said that he proposed to his wife, Alma Meville, several times in his films. The wife, who often appeared as a motif in the movie, was Hitchcock's muse. However, when there was a conflict with his wife, he made seven episodes of trying to kill her. Bae Seong-jae, who heard this, was embarrassed, saying that the relationship with his wife did not seem to be normal.

Regarding the reason Hitchcock was able to create such great works, director Byun Young-joo explained, "It seems that Hitchcock only had films. He seems to have chosen films as the only way to prove himself to the world."

Reporter Lee Ha-neul, Ten Asia greenworld@tenasia.co.kr