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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 375720" data-attributes="member: 57984">It's that sacred, hovering, pre-apocalyptic Cold War vibe thing that just permeated everything in the early-'60s. All you had to do was turn a camera on and say "boo!" and it mostly worked. It's ground zero for creepy, really. A twilight zone.So many things from that period feel as if they're foretelling of some imminent cataclysm which seemed to be scheduled for the middle of decade, yet it never quite seemed to happen. But instead the culture started to unravel. And within a year or two of the president's assassination, collective fears about planetary annihilation by The Bomb were replaced by more banal concerns over a traditional ground war in SE Asia, etc.What does that have to do with THE BIRDS? It always seems obvious to me.I should go see it, to experience how bad the effects look on the big screen today.  I tend to agree about "Head Wren". She's gotten some snooty reviews at times, but she seems pitch perfect to me. There's a neurotic, slightly highbrow tension about her, and a clipped delivery that feels, well, bird-like.I also agree about Grace Kelley -- I find her downright boring, in fact. Directly Stanley Kramer bemoaned how stiff he found her in HIGH NOON.</blockquote>

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