It seems very unlikely that Alfred Hitchcock would somehow draw inspiration from Brazil's planned capital city, Brasilia, but Hitchcock geek/architecture scholar Steven Jacobs points out that the famous high-angle shot of the "Crop Duster" scene from Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) resembles one of Oscar Niemeyer`s sketches for that city layout, as shown below!
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| The iconic crop duster sequence from Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ was a combination of location footage and studio-based rear projection. –The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki |
"The high angle shot that situates the small figure of Cary Grant on the x- and y-axes in the vastness of an empty field shows a remarkable similarity with a famous drawing by Oscar Niemeyer (...). Niemeyer`s drawing shows two minute figures in a panorama of an endless plain transected only by two orthogonal axes. The sketch is something like simplified representation of the urban plan of Brasilia,, of all the cities that have been built undoubtedly the one that best corresponds to the modernist urban utopia, and which Niemeyer, in collaboration with Lucio Costa, was designing at the time of North by Northwest`s release." [The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock Paperback by Steven Jacobs (2014)]
Crazy, isn`t it?!
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