In this 1956 remake of the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much by Alfred Hitchcock, Dr. Ben McKenna, played by James Stewart , and Josephine 'Jo' Conway, played by Doris Day, inadvertently becomes involved in an assassination scheme after the assassination of a mysterious Frenchman and the kidnapping of their son. Hitchcock himself said: "Let's say the first version was the work of a talented amateur and the second was done by a professional" (Spoto), which I interpret as him admitting that his skills and techniques cinematographic skills as a director have improved throughout his career. career. This film has some typical Hitchcock cinematic techniques, although not all of them are necessarily done in a typical manner. A typical technique is the mother/son relationship between Jo and Hank, played by Christopher Olsen. This relationship may not be like that of Bruno Anthony and his mother in Strangers On A Train, or like that of Norman Bates and his mother in Psycho, there is still a close bond between them. At the beginning of the film, while in the hotel room, Jo and Hank sing "What Will Be, Will Be" together as Jo prepares for dinner and Hank prepares for bed, and it is the song Jo sings later in the embassy, ​​too loudly. , to capture Hank's attention. A typical technique, but done in a different way, is the bad man scenario. Hitchcock did the wrong scenario in the case of a murdered person and an innocent person trying to prove that he is not the murderer. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Louis Bernard, the mysterious Frenchman whom the family meets on the bus at the beginning of the film, initially believes that they are the couple who have an assassination plot against the Ambassador. , but discovers it's not them. , but the Drayto...... middle of paper ......Ben tunes. Although this film has typical Hitchcock cinematic techniques, there are a few that were not used. One of them is the typical Hitchcock blonde: light, indifferent, icy, but in this film, Jo, a blonde, is not light, in fact, she stopped working on Broadway to live with Ben in Indianapolis, she is actually caring, for her son, and although you could say that she is icy at first because she first believes that Bernard is a bad guy, and then because she thinks that the Draytons followed them, we can also consider that she is suspicious of others. Another would be that this movie doesn't have much female humiliation, although there is the scene early on on the bus where Hank accidentally removes the Arab woman's veil. Works Cited Spoto, Donald. The art of Alfred Hitchcock, fifty years of his films. 2nd. New York: Anchor, 1992. Print.