You can hear when she rips a page and that sound intersects with the same music, however it starts going low while she gets up and goes to the bathroom. As for me, I couldn’t have been more pleased with my own tiny role in pulling back the curtain on a scene that, half a century later, still has many people thinking twice before stepping into the shower. I don’t think he really got into that. And contrary to what I had read — that Perkins had to be in New York that week to rehearse a play and was therefore unavailable — the actor set the record straight, revealing that his non-appearance was quite intentional. So the very modesty of the enterprise discouraged us from feeling we were working on anything that would be remembered for more than a season.". So Hitchcock financed its budget himself, against the advice of his own producers.

https://psycho.fandom.com/wiki/Shower_Scene?oldid=5645. INTERIOR SHOWER, HEAD SHOT, SIMILAR FRAMING TO SHOT 22. Psycho Shower Scene [Delilah] Shortfilms. Hollywood Life. You don’t see blood—it’s obviously chocolate syrup.”  As to how the director ultimately got the scene past the censors, Philippe ventures this theory: “He’s funny, he’s very chummy. BATHROOM CEILING, LOOKING DOWN INTO BATHTUB.

The scene includes 70-77 camera angles (depending on how you count them). Marion continues to wash her face. Although we cannot see clearly through the shower curtain, we can see the door opening and the vague outline of a figure in the doorway. "I don’t think so," he replied. Alfred Hitchcock, the fabled “master of suspense,” called Psycho a prank.. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. INTERIOR SHOWER, LOOKING TOWARDS SIDE WALL, IN FOCUS CLOSE-UP OF MARION'S MOUTH. That worried him. Bates Motel Puts Psycho Twist On Shower Scene (SPOILERS) Wochit. Notes are in italics. by film critics over the past five decades, including discussion of the dozens of camera angles, in which the lens essentially becomes the knife, and debate over whether the viewer ever actually sees the blade piercing the skin. Marion's right arm is across her chest, trying to protect herself. Once inside the shower, Marion pulls the shower curtain across. Hollywood Life. “There was violence in American film but nothing like Psycho—nothing that intimate, nothing that designed, nothing with that kind of remorseless.”. Those 45 seconds have undergone continual dissection (pardon the pun, Marion!) Still screaming, Marion thrases from side to side. Mister Buzz. Marion has grabbed the knife arm but is unable to stop Mother bringing the knife down again. Paramount, the studio that had produced several of the director’s 1950s successes, refused to bankroll it. (Credit: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty Images). I told him what I had heard, and asked if he would confirm the secret of "Psycho": that during the filming of the horrific moment where Norman Bates, in drag, dispatches Miss Crane, Anthony Perkins himself was nowhere near the movie set. INTERIOR SHOWER, LOOKING TOWARDS SHOWER CURTAIN AND BATHROOM DOOR (CLOSED). Psycho Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Her mouth is open and she appears to be happy. Hitchcock had his crew audition multiple varieties of melon until they found the right kind.

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INTERIOR SHOWER, LOOKING TOWARDS SIDE WALL, SIMILAR ANGLE TO SHOT 9. She is totally exposed to the attack. And Hitchcock employed a fast-motion reverse shot to make it look like the blade actually pierced Marion’s abdomen. Hitchcock Psycho' Shower Scene Remade With Kittens, And It's Terrifying. Worse, she gets stabbed to death while taking a shower in the creepy Bates Motel, managed by Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins, whose performance as a cross-dressing, mother-obsessed, split-personality maniac would shadow every big-screen serial killer to come.

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