The Birds Part 1. as told by Edward E. French
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Daphne du Maurier is best known for her authorship of Rebecca and The Birds, both adapted to film by "Master of Suspense" director Alfred Hitchcock. Part one of her tale of aviary Armageddon is narrated by Oscar nominated and Emmy Award winning Special Makeup FX artist Ed French.
WOW!! Amazing narration-sounds a lot like Orson Welles....so happy to have found this.
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With a hint of Vincent Price..😊
I thank God for You. Love, Light, Peace, Music and Joy
Thanks Jennifer. Peace and love! E.E.F.
Well, Ed you’ve outdone yourself with your reading of Daphne Du Maurier’s The Birds. I have to listen to this chilling tale in its entirety again. I won’t even try to express the profundity of Ms. Du Maurier’s stylistic mastery in this work. No, it’s something else I want to get to in this comment.
I saw the movie as a child and naively thought it was just another of Hitchcock’s directorial successes. I didn’t pay attention to who wrote it or even chance to read the book. Now, all these years later when you bring the book life with this riveting audio work, I’m floored, and quite disturbed by what it implies. If these creatures could coalesce as a worldwide destructive force against humanity, we, I say we, might very well lose!!! Why? Well of course, the element of theme on which the book is based, they can fly!!! And I mean fly. You say, well we have airborne devices too. No, our devices are a joke compared to the evolutionally honed skills of birds. No jet fighter could turn, move, accelerate dip, duck, stop and start like an eagle, or hawk. And add to that they amass in the millions in some places of the world, these creatures could very well spell the Armageddon we fear if they only were able to do what Du Maurier describes. That is what makes this story so horrifying. As I listened to your telling the story of a rural English family battling this onslaught of organized, driven and murderous avian species, I kept thinking Damn I’m glad these animals in reality don’t have the collective intelligence to mount this malevolent attack on us! I wondered how she could have come up with this idea. Was it a rare attack from a bird in her childhood? I don’t know, but whatever planted the seed of this tale in her mind, it gave the literary world an unforgettable drama.
As an atheist I modify the cliché and say thank the non-existent god, these creatures AREN’T united as a species and could really try this. Unless, we decided to end it all with worldwide nuclear war, we would lose. Unless a gas that affects only birds and not humans could be found, every tactic of war would fail, or hurt us as much as them. Think of a bird of prey with a 6-foot wingspan and beak hard as bone plunging from a height of say 500 feet into the neck of the strongest man, and you can see we are no match for them! Add to that thousands upon thousands of them behaving like this, everywhere across the globe, I say again thank something they are not a species that is unified across all subspecies.
As I said, I won’t even delve into all rich fabric of the style of this story, those comments would take way too much space to explain. I’m gonna listen this story again tomorrow. Thanks, Ed, for giving us this one.
I appreciate your comments. Thank you for reminding me of the story. It's a fictional Global Pandemic too. The birds are certainly a viral force. It resonates remarkably with our current catastrophes. Be well and safe. E.E.F.
Wow shades of Orson Wells 😮❤
Chilling tale...impressive narration...marvelous reading on one of the automn's days...
Thank you very much!🇷🇺
Your reading is excellent. Thank you
I listened to these a few months ago. I’m not sure if I commented! Just wanted to say, I still remember your voice as I listened, it stayed with me. Absolutely wonderful!
I'm listening to this series again. She had a diminutive style that I would compare with Campbell (Who Goes There?).
GREAT READINGS (PARTS1-5) also equally good on CASTING OF THE RUNES...
Beautiful Perfection
Thank you :)
thanks so much, my online textbook didn't have an audio option.
You are welcome. E.E.F.
You're the best.
Good reading my dude
Thanks Yolofries RedPie. Kudos to author Daphne DuMaurier .
was the film based on this story,doent matter good reading,so was grave yard rats,nice.
Thank you David. E.E.F.
Much prefer Peter Capaldi's narration. Not only does he do the voices but he also gets the unsettling tone just right, the overall sense of foreboding.
This reading is too gentle, to sweet.
By the way, Nat is eating a pasty, not a pasTRY.
Faith. I appreciate you taking the time to critique my narration of The Birds. Cheers.. E.E.F.
@@FrenchEdward06 i love this version. Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to upload this for us.
Speaking of pasties, I wonder how many people realise that the original story is actually set in Cornwall. Notice there were no attempts at English accents this time.
For all we know this person posts critical comments all over CZcams. Axe to grind. PAY NO ATTENTION TO SOUR GRAPES! This version is great.
@Faith Castillo: Why post such a mean spirited rant? If this is all you have to say it's best to stay silent ...