Janet Leigh

It’s without a doubt that horror films that are made in modern times, like most forms of art, are definitely not what they used to be. The majority of movies in Hollywood today rely heavily on CGI and special effects, which is convenient for the film to look visually appealing, but inconvenient when the story is poor or unrecognizable due to the film makers relying too much on special effects to drive the movie. This is unfortunate,especially for the horror genre because whenever a movie lacks a…

Kora Lahm Hour: 1 The film Psycho was made on September 8, 1960, by Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho was Hitchcock’s most successful film and it’s said to be the best horror film of all time. Most of the film focuses on Marion Crane, a Phoenix real-estate secretary. Marion was trusted by her employer to take $40,000 to the bank, but she sees the opportunity to take the money and start a new life. With the money, she leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. During a storm, she gets off the…

prime the audience for scenes that come later” (Kendrick 5). Kendrick claims that internal priming is partly responsible for the severe reactions the audience had due to the way Hitchcock builds up the audience’s connection with the lead actress Janet Leigh. By having Leigh’s character be the main focus for the first half of the movie, Hitchcock was able to build the audience’s expectations of her being the protagonist. When Leigh’s character is then killed partway through the movie it “is…

Wiliam Leigh, in his sermon ´Queen Elizabeth, Paraleld in Her Princely Vertues´. The third version of Elizabeth ´s speech appeared beneath the painting of ´Elizabeth at Tilbury´ in St Faith´s Church, Gaywood, which was commissioned by Thomas Hare in 1588. In the article ´The myth of Elizabeth at Tilbury´, written by Susan Frye compares the differences of the three speeches and goes on to say that the Leight and Gaywood speeches differ enough for the Gaywood painting to be a copy of Leigh´s…

Bye Bye Birdie Bye Bye Birdie is a comedic musical with the music by Charles Strouse in 1963. The following cast members sing many solos, duos, trios and full cast songs: Janet Leigh (Rosie DeLeon), Dick Van Dyke (Albert F. Peterson), Ann-Margret (Kim McAfee), Maureen Stapleton (Mae Peterson), Bobby Rydell (Hugo Peabody), Jesse Pearson (Conrad Birdie). There are 15 songs total. “Bye Bye Birdie” intro is a solo by Kim. It is a song with an upbeat tempo. Lyrics are depressing because she is…

Ray Bradbury an Amazing Man, what a prolific writer of the science fiction. What an amazing writer of science fiction and fantasy. Ray Bradbury was born in a small mid-western city in Illinois in 1920, where his family struggled due to the great depression. The Bradbury family eventually settled down in Los Angeles when Ray was fourteen. Ray Bradbury attended Los Angeles High School where he regularly worked on his writing and also joined the drama club. Ray also considered being a…

Clarence Darrow once stated that “there is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.” As it is, crime is inevitable for a living person in the long run. Suppose, one drove into the red light at the traffic intersection or a student lit cigarette inside the school zone, both are accountable for crimes with the consequences. Crime is a crime for the action a person has committed, and the only difference is consequences depending on how big the crimes are. During the…

Since the beginning of the entertainment era, especially with Hollywood, remakes have been made routinely. Remakes are not all unfavorable, some might argue, they mostly remind people of the great original films out there and enroll new audiences into classical creations. A well-recognized remake in the cinematography world is based on Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, 1960, by Gus Van Sant. Arguably, Van Sant’s Psycho, 1998, is a ‘shot-for-shot’ remake of Hitchcock’s original film. However,…

who stole a hefty amount of money and then running away in order to be with the man she loves, gets lost and decides to stay at a motel for the night, shortly regretting what she’s done. This film, featuring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates and Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, breaks cinematic history. With Hitchcock’s great eye for detail, he engrosses audiences in this ground breaking psychological thriller/horror film to the very end. Hitchcock makes use of motifs and mise-en-scene to explore the…

For blood, he used Bosco Chocolate syrup, and to avoid obscenity rules, Hitchcock had actress Janet Leigh wear a moleskin suite to cover her private parts during the shower scene. “Psycho has more in common with noir quickies like Detour (1945) than with elegant Hitchcock thrillers like Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958)” (Ebert 374). Hitchcock kept…