Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director. This article lists some of the themes and plot devices that occur repeatedly in his films. There are images of birds in nearly all of Hitchcock's films. Some of the most prominent are listed below. Black people appear mostly as background characters in many of his films, except Philippe Dubois who is both intelligent and clever, The church have appeared in some of this films, Cultured villains have been shown in many of his
More Than Human "More Than Human" in 1978, titled "Heavy Metal Presents Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human". It was illustrated by Alex Niño and scripted by Doug Moench. The novel concerns the coming together of six extraordinary people with strange powers who are able to "blesh" (a portmanteau of "blend" and "mesh") their abilities together. In this way, they are able to act as one organism. They progress toward a mature gestalt consciousness, called the "homo gestalt", the next step in the human evolution. The first part of the novel, "The Fabulous Idiot", narrates the birth of the gestalt. In the beginning, we