Psycho released
in year 1960 directed by Alfred Hitchcock who was already famous as the
screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the
world) when he released Psycho it forever changed the shape and tone of the
screen thriller.
As per the movie
story the camera techniques and camera angles are placed properly. For the beginning
sequence of the movie long shot camera angles have been taken. It keeps the
viewers at the edge of their seats. Hitchcock
could ignite our curiosity at the outset of each film in ways unlooked at until
now. Here we explore the most striking moments from each opening sequence of
his theatrical films and examine his strategies for pulling in the viewer.
Psycho announced
that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that
score what followed would hardly disappoint.
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real
estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam
Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be
deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes
off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life.
36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have
started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel,
where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)
cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her
with curious stories about his mother.
shower scene is
justifiably the film's most famous sequence, The murder of Marion crane in the shower is the film's pivotal scene and one of the best-known
scenes in all of cinema history. It featured 77 different camera angles. The
scene "runs 3 minutes and includes 50 cuts." Most of the shots are
extreme close-ups, except for medium shots in the shower directly before and
directly after the murder. The combination of the close shots with their short
duration makes the sequence feel more subjective than it would have been if the
images were presented alone or in a wider angle.
Norman Bates is
the main character in Hitchcock’s movie ‘Psycho’. At first, he seems just the
‘boy-next-door’ type of guy, who owns a cheap motel and lives with his mother. Only
that the mother doesn’t exist anymore, she’s only a part of Norman’s imagination.
Because of the fact that he poisoned her, he decides to compensate her absence,
by saving her body, preserving it and even trying to talk in her voice. But can
he handle the all too different personalities He falls in love with a client,
Marion, but soon, the Mother’s personality intercedes and so Marion ends up by
being stabbed with a kitchen knife while taking a shower. That’s when we
understand that the Mother’s personality took over quite often, leaving Norman
lost in the labyrinth of his mind. All in all, Norman Bates was a very complex
psycho-killer character.
It is often ranked among the greatest film of all time and is famous for bringing in a new level of acceptable violence and sexuality in films.
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