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Hitchcock conveys an intensifying theme in Psycho, that bases itself on the unending subconscious battle between good and evil that exists in everyone through the audience’s subjective participation and implicit character parallels. Psycho begins with a view of a city that is arbitrarily identified along with an exact date and time.
22 de ene. de 2020 · January 22, 2020. “Psycho,” the 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was considered to be both a classic and first modern horror film opening the viewers of cinema to the “slasher”...
Psycho. by Alfred Hitchcock. Buy Study Guide. Psycho Summary. On a hot Friday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) spends her lunch hour in a hotel room with her lover, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). Marion is tired of meeting Sam on the sly and voices her hope that they can legitimize their relationship.
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Psycho, American suspense film and psychological thriller, released in 1960, that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and is loosely based on the real-life killings of Wisconsin serial murderer Ed Gein.
(Read Alfred Hitchcock’s 1965 Britannica essay on film production.)
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After secretary Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh) impulsively absconds from her job with $40,000, she checks into the eerie Bates Motel, which is run by shy, awkward Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his domineering elderly mother. While taking a shower, Crane is fatally stabbed by Norman’s mother, and Norman disposes of the body. Meanwhile, Crane’s boyfriend (John Gavin) and her sister (Vera Miles) launch a frantic search that eventually takes them to the Bates home. There they fend off an attack by Norman’s mother, who, dressed as the long-deceased Mrs. Bates, in reality is Norman. A psychiatrist later determines that Norman suffers from a split personality that led him to commit murder.
In 1960, the same year that director Michael Powell’s career was nearly ruined for releasing the sexually oriented murder film Peeping Tom, Hitchcock found his greatest success with this equally disturbing film along similarly shocking plotlines. Hitchcock made Psycho on a limited budget by shooting in black and white and using the crew from his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The director financed much of the film himself in return for a large percentage of the profits, which earned him millions. The murder in the shower, one of the most famous scenes in cinematic history, was a textbook example of brilliant film editing, but the scene is probably best remembered for Bernard Herrmann’s masterful score, in which violins, cellos, and violas screech in unison with each slash of Norman’s knife. The production design of the old house on the hill where the eccentric Norman Bates lived is famous for its nightmarish effect.
•Studio: Paramount Pictures
•Director and Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
•Writer: Joseph Stefano
•Music: Bernard Herrmann
•Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates)
•Janet Leigh (Marion Crane)
•Vera Miles (Lila Crane)
•John Gavin (Sam Loomis)
•Supporting Actress (Janet Leigh)
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Download Free PDF. View PDF. Textual Analysis of Alfred Hitchcocks’s “PSYCHO” Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.
