Norman Bates

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Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho, and Glenn Close as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, each played the character portrayed as mentally unstable. The two actors seamlessly fell into their parts and led the audience to believe they were truly insane. In the beginning, each of the two lived what appeared to be normal lives. Anthony Perkins managed his mother’s motel that had become a ghost-town after the new highway had been build, which completely cut off access to the motel. Glenn Close…

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film; Psycho is a prime example of a film that utilises expert editing. The “shower scene” from Psycho is where this incredibly skilful editing creates intense emotion in a fairly small time space through the strategic use of action, direction, form and concept edits which all ultimately add to the thriller-horror narrative of the film. The first edit in the “shower scene” is a direction edit as the shot where Marion Crane holds her hand out with the torn-up pieces of…

Norman is a lonely shy young man when Marion first meets him at the hotel. When Norman first meets her he's very quiet and shy with his words and really thinks and hesitates with his words, I think he's not wanting to embarrass himself. Were suppose to feel bad for him cause all he has is his…

Music in film is something that everyone recognizes, be it the music of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones or “Eye of The Tiger” in Rocky 3. We recognize these musical pieces because they are in simple terms, remember able. But what about the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho? Originally this music, which is voted as one of the scariest movie theme tunes ever, wasn’t going to be in the film. The differences that the tune makes in the film are immense, as it draws a new picture into…

A popular TV show Bates Motel features the story of a young boy named Norman Bates, a fictional character created by Robert Bloch. NPR describes Norman Bates as one of the first psychotic killers, even before Freddy Krueger (P.Breslow). The TV show is a sequel to the popular novel Psycho, both television show and novel characters were inspired by famous Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein as they portray similar characteristics and psychological problems as this killer. The popular show really puts in…

cleanse herself by taking a shower she in the process gets stabled to death. Hitchcock planned this scene out well because the film is in black and white and you cannot identify the person who committed the stabbing. Later it turns about to be Norman bates who attacks…

Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were all horror movie characters inspired by one man. According to A.K. (2007), that man was Ed Gein. Born August 27, 1906, Edward Theodore Gein was raised on a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein suffered through a traumatic childhood, considering he had a violent drunk as a father and a fanatical Lutheran as a mother. Since his mother was devoutly religious, he was taught by her…

infamous Edward Theodore Gein was a perplexing psychopath who was known for his unorthodox crimes. His real-life cases has influenced media and the creation of several fictional characters like Leather Face from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Norman Bates from Psycho. Edward Theodore Gein better known as “Ed Gein” was an American murderer, psychopath and body snatcher famous for his sick crimes of carving out people’s faces, collection of human skulls and remains, including…

6) Psycho http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I never thought black and white could be so gooooooood. I love this movie because it has so much meaning behind it. The beginning is one of the most powerful sense of its time. A women being undress on screen was a big no no. Then a trusted secretary women stealing 40 thousand dollars then running with it out of town. The director wanted to show that women at the time could do what men could do. That they weren't any different. I…