Unleash Your Inner Hitchcock
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I bet you watch the shower scene in Psycho
and think, "Oh, I could so have done that better." Come on, admit it – the editing is just too damn fast sometimes. And that eyeball closeup?
Just a bit too cute, don't you think? Plus, how many times do we have to
see the damn chocolate syrup circling the drain? Come on, Hitch.
Lighten up! (Or if you prefer, you can yell at Saul Bass, who storyboarded the scene.)Now, finally, here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is: Psycho Studio allows you to create your own version of the scene, and will save yours in a gallery, where it can be watched and admired by your fellow Hitchcock fans around the world.
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8-18-2005 @ 8:20PM
Tom said...
Oh come on. That's a hugely influential sequence. There's just no way you can jump on hitchcock for any of those choices. If you're going to jump on anyone jump on Gus Van Sant and his hilarious rendition. Or how about Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, brilliant casting. I demand to know why Jon Favreau wasn't cast as the detective rather than Robert Forster. That was the true outrage.
Saul Bass doesn't deserve any credit for that scene. He was nowhere near that scene in the planning or anywhere else. That was just his grab for a little more fame.
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11-02-2005 @ 10:22AM
Melissa g said...
Watching a movie made in the '60s and comparing it to the modern, slick look of digital and nonlinear editing is just ludicrous. Hitchcock is a master, and he did everything intelligently and deliberately. Sure, looking at it now from a modern-day perspective, the slasher scenes look a bit fake, even cheesey. But for the time it was revolutionary, not only for the whole slashing-up-a-chick-in-the-shower-while-posing-as-your-mother thing, but for its cutting-edge attitude (she's in her undies in bed having a post-coital discussion with a man she's not married to! Gasp!) and psychological depth. With movies we have now, of course the actual murders in Psycho won't have as big of an impact on us, especially those of us who are used to very gory horror flicks; we're pretty much dulled down to the bone, we've seen worse on TV. But at the time, people didn't shower with the curtain closed for years. Some people still don't, even watching it for the first time today. It's movies like this one that ALLOWED later movies like Silence of the Lambs and other more intense, more visually violent movies to even be considered for release.
To put it another way, Hitchcock had to be creative. He couldn't show Marion actually getting stabbed. So he left it up to the audience's imagination, which, in my opinion, makes scenes like that even more frightening. With censorship being pretty much nonexistent nowadays, I guess some people's imagination have been dulled that badly. Not that I'm agreeing with censorship; I just don't believe in shock for shock's sake.
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