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Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite. She decides to follow lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) to his home in Bodega Bay, California. She apparently picks the wrong time to visit. The birds of Bodega Bay are becoming increasingly aggressive and soon every human being around comes under attack.
Unlike most other films of its era, ''[[The Birds]]'' does not have a music score or an ending in the conventional sense. The soundtrack was supervised by [[Bernard Herrmann]]; bird cries and wingflaps were played on an expanded [[w:Trautonium|Trautonium]] (called the Mixtur Trautonium) by Oskar Sala, assisted by German composer Remi Gassmann.
The screenplay was written by [[Evan Hunter]]. [[Ub Iwerks]] helped out with the special effects involving the birds.
There was a sequel, "The Birds II: Land's End" (1994) with a new cast of characters. It fared poorly.
Not to be confused with [[The Birds (play)|the play]] by [[Aristophanes]].
▲The screenplay was written by [[Evan Hunter]]. [[Ub Iwerks]] helped out with the special effects involving the birds. There was a sequel, "The Birds II: Land's End" (1994) with a new cast of characters. It fared poorly.
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* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: In this case, birds.
* [[Big Bad]]: The birds
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* [[Daylight Horror]]: Most of the birds attack during the day.
* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: The movie opens with a romantic-flirtation plot.
* [[Eye Scream]] / [[Staggered Zoom]]: A brief shot of one of the victims, with his eyes pecked out.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: Type B.
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* [[Harmful to Minors]]: The school scene, among others.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Melanie enters a catatonic state after the final attack in the attic.
* [[In Name Only]]: Well, ''technically'' it's based on the du Maurier short story...
** The screenwriter actually had read the short story, but Hitchcock specifically told him not to bother with it, as all he wanted to use was the core premise of birds attacking people.
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* [[San Francisco]]: The opening scenes take place here, before the action moves up the coast to Bodega Bay.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: Subverted in classic Hitch style. Suzanne Pleshette, who played Annie, suggested for her character's death that her ear should be found half torn off and bloody. Hitchcock sent her to the makeup department to let them make her ear look like that, but when filming the actual scene placed her body with her other side facing the camera so that the viewer never sees the torn off ear.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Why does Melanie enter a room filled with angry birds? Because Hitchcock says so. His specific response when Tippi Hedren questioned her motivation was "[[Money, Dear Boy|Your salary]]."
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Once the birds get wound up in large numbers, this becomes their favorite tactic.
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