Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The book was used as a major source for the podcast episode, detailing Hitchcock's life, career, and his dark side, particularly his habit of playing aggressive pranks.
The Dark Side of Genius notes that it's impossible to confirm or deny Hitchcock's story about being locked in a cell for five minutes.
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Episode: Part One: Alfred Hitchcock: The Director Who Rando...
The book was used as a major source for the podcast episode, detailing Hitchcock's life, career, and his dark side, particularly his habit of playing aggressive pranks.
The Dark Side of Genius notes that it's impossible to confirm or deny Hitchcock's story about being locked in a cell for five minutes.
In the early afternoon between a lecture class and a quiet study time the boys were free to gather in the schoolyard near the church. Gould who was one of his classmates then nine was suddenly yanked away from his peers by Hitchcock and an accomplice and dragged off to another forbidden area, the basement boiler room of the school.
Before he could cry out or struggle not much use in any case against two bigger boys Gould was bound hand and foot once he was immobilized he was preyed to a carefully planned psychological torture that could have ended disastrously. His trousers were pulled down and Hitchcock quickly stepped behind him.
There was the sound of a scratching noise and the two bullies raced up the stairs. Young Gould must have thought he was attacked by a firing squad. At once the sound of gunfire exploded but it was a string of firecrackers that had been pinned to his underwear and ignited.
To make others feel childish and dependent, this seemed to be part of his goal.
Episode: Part One: Alfred Hitchcock: The Director Who Rando...
The book was referenced as the source for many anecdotes about Hitchcock's pranks and his early life, which were discussed throughout the podcast.
In the early afternoon between a lecture class and a quiet study time the boys were free to gather in the schoolyard near the church. Gould who was one of his classmates then nine was suddenly yanked away from his peers by Hitchcock and an accomplice and dragged off to another forbidden area, the basement boiler room of the school.
To make others feel childish and dependent, this seemed to be part of his goal.
He was not only considered most people a threat, they were better looking, more intelligent, better educated, more socially acceptable than himself and by reducing them to a sudden discomfort perhaps he felt he was bringing them to the level on which he always lived by thus subjugating those he resented for whatever reason and on whatever level of consciousness by submitting them to varying degrees of humiliation and danger he was not only controlling them but also being able to make them dread.