The Birds

The Birds
The birds is an Alfred Hitchcock directed thriller featuring the actors Tippi Hendren, Rod Daniels, and Jessica Tandy. We see our main character Melanie Daniels, (played by Tippi Hendren) start off in a pet bird shop, where she first meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Daniels) who plays a practical joke on her. The pair clearly hit it off, and Melanie decides to continue the joke by driving 60 miles to drop off a pair of love birds to Mitch's younger sister as a birthday present. Whilst she is driving away from his mothers house on a speed boat, she is attacked by a seagull that leaves a deep cut on her forehead. The locals find this attack very odd.












The further we get into the movie, we start to see a rise in the number of birds attacking, and the severity of the attacks. We see a flock of crows attack the school children whilst they are trying to flee the area. Later, Melanie and Mitch find the local school teacher dead at her door step by what was clearly a bird attack. The final attack of birds was on Mitch's mothers house, where the birds violently and desperately tried to break in and attack everyone inside. They managed to avoid the attack, until Melanie walked into the room that the birds had managed to get into. She survived an attack, and the birds seized after that. They managed to leave the house surrounded by thousands without being attacked.