Vanity Fair always comes up with something clever for their big movie issue. This year it's a spread featuring famous present-day actors recreating scenes from Hitchcock movies. The above is Seth Rogen doing Cary Grant from North By Northwest. I guess the joke here is that the scruffy Rogen is about as far from debonair Grant as you can get. He looks like Philip Seymour Hoffman there kind of. Hey Seth - don't have a heart attack. Sorry, I'll take Cary...
I like this one - Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy doing Farley Granger and Robert Walker from Strangers on a Train. I like imagining Emile and James being embroiled in this perverse homosexual thing that plays out as a murder story. My favorite shot in Strangers is when Granger's playing tennis and Hitchcock shows all the spectators looking back and forth with the ball, then dollies in on Walker just sitting there eerily staring at Farley. How come directors aren't that imaginative anymore? They're too busy trying to beat my brains in with their fast cutting and crazy shaking camera shit. Fuck those obnoxious twits - not a single one of them can hold a candle to Hitchcock.
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