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I am all for alternative casting suggestions for movies but who would have ever conceived of the idea of starring Will Smith in “Hitch,” the new biopic of the life and times of legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock? And yet, there he is, trading quips with Cary Grant (Martin Lawrence) and winning the heart of Tippi Hedren (Vivica A. Fox) while creating some of the cinema’s greatest works. Needless to say, there are a few points where I think things have been changed slightly to fit in with Smith’s familiar screen persona. There is the moment where we see him reading the screenplay for “Psycho” and letting out his trademark “Aw, hell no ” when he gets to the last ten pages. And while it is well-known that Hitchcock feuded with his longtime musical composer Bernard Herrmann (depicted here as the head of Kenneth Branagh resting atop a giant mechanical spider) during the scoring of “Torn Curtain,” I am fairly certain that their arguments did not culminate with a car chase, a shoot-out and Hitch plunging a baton in Herrmann’s throat while say, “Yo, conduct this ”.

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Kirk
NP - Il Sole Anche di Notte (Nicola Piovani)