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-->"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? They haven't harmed anyone."
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-->"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? They haven't harmed anyone.""
* ValuesDissonance: Earlier in the film, Melanie is searching for Mitch's family home and the local townspeople give her directions to not only his home but also to the local school teacher's home; before that, an apartment resident tells her how long Mitch will be in Bodega Bay. This is jarring from a modern perspective worried about serial killers and stalkers.
* ValuesDissonance: Earlier in the film, Melanie is searching for Mitch's family home and the local townspeople give her directions to not only his home but also to the local school teacher's home; before that, an apartment resident tells her how long Mitch will be in Bodega Bay. This is jarring from a modern perspective worried about serial killers and stalkers.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The birds' cries when they were swarming the house in the last 20 minutes of the film.
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* PoorMansSubstitute: Try as they may, Rod Taylor and Tipppi Hendren weren't Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/GraceKelly.
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* {{Sequelitis}}{{Sequelitis}}: The 1994 DirectToVideo sequel ''The Birds II: Land's End'' got very negative reviews.
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** Melanie telling Mitch about how [[MissingMom her Mother]] [[ParentalAbandonment wasn't around for her growing up]].
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** Melanie telling Mitch about how [[MissingMom her Mother]] [[ParentalAbandonment wasn't around for her growing up]].up]].
** Cathy, despite everything, still loving her own pet birds. Can double as [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]].
-->"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? They haven't harmed anyone."
** Cathy, despite everything, still loving her own pet birds. Can double as [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]].
-->"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? They haven't harmed anyone."
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Did ''you'' know there was a short story?
** By [[{{Rebecca}} Daphne du Maurier]], no less...
** Not that it has [[InNameOnly a lot to do with it]].
** By [[{{Rebecca}} Daphne du Maurier]], no less...
** Not that it has [[InNameOnly a lot to do with it]].
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Did ''you'' know there was a short story?
**story? By [[{{Rebecca}} [[Literature/{{Rebecca}} Daphne du Maurier]], no less...
**less. Not that it has [[InNameOnly a lot to do with it]].
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** Fortunately she got a [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright slap]] back to sanity.
*** More like her way of saying "[[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!!]]" to her.
** Fortunately she got a [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright slap]] back to sanity.
*** More like her way of saying "[[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!!]]" to her.
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* {{Narm}}: {{Narm}}:
** "I think you're EVIL! '''EVIL!'''" Geez, lady, we understand you're very frightened here, but ''comenow''....
**on now''. Fortunately she got a [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright slap]] either to get her back to sanity.
*** More likesanity, or as her way of saying "[[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!!]]" to her.
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* TearJerker: TearJerker:
** [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice "Annie pushed me inside!"]]]]
** [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice "Annie pushed me inside!"]]]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: You'll never look at birds the same way again...
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice "Annie pushed me inside!"]]]]inside!"]]]]
** Lydia finding her friend's body and later confiding to Melanie about how her late husband related to their children better than she did.
** Melanie telling Mitch about how [[MissingMom her Mother]] [[ParentalAbandonment wasn't around for her growing up]].
** Lydia finding her friend's body and later confiding to Melanie about how her late husband related to their children better than she did.
** Melanie telling Mitch about how [[MissingMom her Mother]] [[ParentalAbandonment wasn't around for her growing up]].
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: It's a comedy, after all.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's about birds, so they would have used some.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's about birds, so they would have used some.
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[[AC:The Aristophanes Play]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: It's a comedy, after all.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's about birds, so they would have used some.
* HilariousInHindsight: References to Rhea. Rhea is the name both of Zeus' mother and a South American relative of the ostrich.
* ValuesDissonance: What does Peisthetaerus dream of? A world where parents of attractive children ''want'' them taken advantage of sexually.
[[AC:The Hitchcock Film]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: It's a comedy, after all.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's about birds, so they would have used some.
* HilariousInHindsight: References to Rhea. Rhea is the name both of Zeus' mother and a South American relative of the ostrich.
* ValuesDissonance: What does Peisthetaerus dream of? A world where parents of attractive children ''want'' them taken advantage of sexually.
[[AC:The Hitchcock Film]]
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** Still miles better than ''Birdemic''.
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** Still miles better than ''Birdemic''.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpreation: Annie Hayworth, the school teacher, stayed in the town her ex-boyfriend lived in on the weekends, despite originally being a city girl, saying she didn't want to lose the friendship between them... could it have been something else? Could Annie in fact have been Cathy's real mother, with Lydia actually being Cathy's grandmother given her age and appearance, but being the time period that it was such an out of wedlock birth could not be accepted, so they all just lied about it to save face? It would certainly explain some of Annie's interactions with Cathy at the party and later on [[spoiler:Annie sacrificing herself to save Cathy from the birds]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpreation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Annie Hayworth, the school teacher, stayed in the town her ex-boyfriend lived in on the weekends, despite originally being a city girl, saying she didn't want to lose the friendship between them... could it have been something else? Could Annie in fact have been Cathy's real mother, with Lydia actually being Cathy's grandmother given her age and appearance, but being the time period that it was such an out of wedlock birth could not be accepted, so they all just lied about it to save face? It would certainly explain some of Annie's interactions with Cathy at the party and later on [[spoiler:Annie sacrificing herself to save Cathy from the birds]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpreation: Annie Hayworth, the school teacher, stayed in the town her ex-boyfriend lived in on the weekends, despite originally being a city girl, saying she didn't want to lose the friendship between them... could it have been something else? Could Annie in fact have been Cathy's real mother, with Lydia actually being Cathy's grandmother given her age and appearance, but being the time period that it was such an out of wedlock birth could not be accepted, so they all just lied about it to save face? It would certainly explain some of Annie's interactions with Cathy at the party and later on [[spoiler:Annie sacrificing herself to save Cathy from the birds]].
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** Not that it has [[InNameOnly a lot to do with it]].
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** By [[{{Rebecca} [[{{Rebecca}} Daphne du Maurier]], no less...
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** By [[{{Rebecca} Daphne du Maurier, Maurier]], no less...
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** When the camera keeps cutting between a trail of fire approaching the gas station, and Melanie making scared faces.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The bird effects were extremely technically innovative when the film first released, but look rather ropey nowadays.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The bird effects were extremely technically innovative when the film first released, but look rather ropey nowadays.nowadays.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice "Annie pushed me inside!"]]]]
* TearJerker: [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice "Annie pushed me inside!"]]]]
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*** More like her way of saying "[[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!!]]" to her.
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game, not a trope.
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* BetterThanItSounds: The idea of a horror film about killer birds sounds like a parody of silly horror film premises, but the film's surprisingly effective nevertheless.
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** sabrina_diamond ''did'', the entire story was in my library book once.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The entire second half, ''especially'' the last 15 minutes.
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* BetterThanItSounds: The idea of a horror film about killer birds sounds like a parody of silly horror film premises, but the film's surprisingly effective nevertheless.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The bird effects were extremely technically innovative when the film first released, but look rather ropey nowadays.
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** sabrina_diamond ''did'', the entire story was in my library book once.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The entire second half, ''especially'' the last 15 minutes.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The entire second half, ''especially'' the last 15 minutes.minutes.
* {{Narm}}: "I think you're EVIL! '''EVIL!'''" Geez, lady, we understand you're very frightened here, but ''come now''....
** Fortunately she got a [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright slap]] back to sanity.
* {{Narm}}: "I think you're EVIL! '''EVIL!'''" Geez, lady, we understand you're very frightened here, but ''come now''....
** Fortunately she got a [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright slap]] back to sanity.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The birds' cries when they were swarming the house in the last 20 minutes of the film.
