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  1. From the way I've seen Hitchcock's creative process described, you can be confident that the film you see is the film he intended it to be. Aside from the tacked-on ending for the European Vertigo discussed here, the only other instance I know of Hitchcock accepted anything he didn't plan for a movie was a similar tacked-on ending for Psycho, where we get the internal monologue of Norman Bates, which he considered superfluous. We have seen on TCM Hitchcock himself describing how he used source material. He read it for plot elements, and characters. Then he went ahead and did what he wanted to. That's why it's not necessary to worry much about the source, even if Hitchcock lifted directly from it, he wouldn't have done so if it didn't conform to his vision. A good way to see how he worked is to read Cornell Woolrich's Rear Window, and compare it to the movie. Woolrich's story is a straightforward thriller. Hitchcock adds romance, the sub plots, and the voyeurism elements.

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