4.如果选择希区柯克、惠勒、普莱斯东·史都尔奇斯、奧逊·威尔斯、寇蒂芝和休斯登六位导演,作为40年代具有代表性的导演进行讨论,这样的选择显然是武断的。因为其他许多优秀导演这一时期仍在继续执导,而50年代的一些杰出导演,这时也已初露头角。但不管怎么说,他们六人毕竟是这一时期的部分重要导演,如果一定要明确选择标准的话,那么,应该说当时好莱坞的观众、电影批评和票房收入都清楚地表明,他们是最引人注目的导演。希区柯克于1940年来到好莱坞,当年创作了在美国的成名作《丽贝卡》(又译《蝴蝶梦》)和《外国记者》两部影片。作为“悬念片大师”,他的创作沿着两条道路发展。第一条道路是允满激情地表现隐秘的间谍生活,40年代的这类影片有《破坏者》(1942)和《声名狼藉》(1946);希区柯克以后的间谍片,更是在允分掌握电影表现手段后,把性欲、悬念和幽默最巧妙地结合在一起。第二条道路是把谋杀的神秘与心理探索两者融化成一体,其中有《疑影》(1941)和《列车上的陌生客》(1951)。前一部影片描写加利福尼亚州某个小镇上,那位古怪复杂的谋杀者有一个患上“乱伦情结症”的侄子;后一部影片表现一个邪恶、着魔而又有精神病的恶棍,他策划了一场 4. If Hitchcock, Wheeler, Pricestone, Orson Welles, Curtis, and Hughes are chosen as directors in the 1940s Discussion, such a choice is obviously arbitrary. Because many other good directors continued to direct this period, and some of the fifties of the outstanding directors, then has begun to emerge. However, after all, they are, after all, some of the important directors of this period. If we must make clear the criteria for selection, then it should be said that at that time Hollywood viewers, film critics and box office receipts made it clear that they were the most attractive Eye-catching director. Hitchcock, who came to Hollywood in 1940, created two famous films in the United States, Rebecca (“Butterfly Dream”) and “Foreign Journalists.” As a “masterpiece of suspense”, his creation has developed along two roads. The first path is full of passion and mysterious spy life. In the 1940s, such films were “saboteurs” (1942) and “notorious” (1946); Hitchcock’s later spy films were After grasping the means of film performance, the most clever combination of sexual desire, suspense and humor. The second path is to melt the mysterious and psychological exploration of murder into one, including “Doubt” (1941) and “stranger on the train” (1951). The former film depicts a small town in California, where the weirdly complicated murderer has a nephew who has “an incest complex.” The latter film shows an evil, enchanted and mentally ill villain who plans A