I thought Toby Jones' portrayal was more revealing of the true pathos of the man.
Hopkins is a STUNNING performer and yet I thought Toby Jones really inhabited the character's real soul, portraying both his genius and his demons.
Hopkins played Hitch as APOLOGETICALLY flawed... Jones was brave enough to play the director as quite as deeply flawed, but offered no benign apology, and in his portrayal, I think, gave us a greater understanding of a troubled genius.
(I would highly recommend BOTH movies, BTW, but I really think Toby Jones NAILED the character in a way that the Hopkins movie failed to do. I might mention that the other actors in both movies, particularly Helen Mirren as Hitch's wife Alma in "Hitchcock", Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren in "The Girl" and PARTICULARLY Imelda Staunton as Hitchcock's wife (Alma again, obviously) in "The Girl" are worth the price of admission alone.)
xx SF
(An aside... It is LUSH after all... Helen Mirren is in her sixties now... I've fancied her since she did a very crochety interview with the BBC's Michael Parkinson in the 70s... And I was a kid then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuF_IjPo6rw If ANYTHING, she's SOOOOOOO much more fuckable NOW!!!!!)
xx SF
(Later her and Parky made friends...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU7899DXQGI xx SF
"I would do anything for love, including the thing Meatloaf won't do... (In fact, I sometimes insist upon it...)"xx SF