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FREE ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE MAKING OF PSYCHO PDF Stephen Rebello | 288 pages | 15 Jan 2013 | SOFT SKULL PRESS | 9781593765118 | English | Berkeley, CA, United States Psycho ( film) - Wikipedia Macy and Anne Heche in leading and supporting roles. It is a modern remake of the film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcockin which an embezzler arrives at an old motel run by an insane killer named Norman Bates. Both films are adapted from Robert Bloch 's novel of the same name. Although this version is in color, features a different cast, and is set init is closer to a shot-for-shot remake than most remakes, often copying Hitchcock's camera movements and editing, and Joseph Stefano 's script is mostly carried over. Bernard Herrmann 's musical score is reused as well, though with a Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho arrangement by Danny Elfman and Steve Bartekrecorded in stereo. Some changes are introduced to account for advances in technology since the original film and to make the content more explicit. Murder sequences are also intercut with surreal dream images. The film was both a critical and commercial failure. Heche was nominated for Worst Actress. She flees Phoenix, Arizonaby car. While en route to Sam's California home, she parks along the road to sleep. A highway patrol trooper awakens her and, suspicious of her agitated state, begins to follow her. When she trades her car for another one at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. Marion returns to the road but, rather than drive in a heavy storm, decides to spend the night at the Bates Motel. Owner Norman Bates tells Marion he rarely has customers because of a new interstate highway nearby and mentions he lives with his mother Norma in the house overlooking the motel. He invites Marion to have supper with him. She overhears Norman arguing with his mother about letting Marion in the house; and, during the meal, she angers him by suggesting he institutionalize his mother. He admits he would like to do so, but he does not want to abandon her. Later that Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, while Marion is changing, Norman secretly watches her from a peephole in his office and masturbates before heading back to the house. Marion resolves to return to Phoenix to return the money. After calculating how she can repay the money she has spent, Marion dumps her notes down the toilet and begins to shower. An unidentified female figure, presumed to be Norman's mother, enters the bathroom and stabs Marion to death. Later, finding the corpse, Norman is horrified. He cleans the bathroom and places Marion's body, wrapped in the shower curtain, and all her possessions—including the money—in the trunk of her car and sinks it in a nearby swamp. Sam is contacted by both Marion's sister, Lilaand private detective Milton Arbogast, who has Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho hired by Marion's employer to find her and recover the money. Arbogast traces Marion to the motel and questions Norman, who lies unconvincingly that Marion stayed for one night and left the following morning. He refuses to let Arbogast talk to his mother, claiming she is ill. Arbogast calls Lila to update her and tells her he will contact her again in an hour after he questions Norman's mother. Arbogast enters Norman's house and, at the top of the stairs, is attacked and murdered by the Mother figure. When Arbogast does not call Lila, she and Sam contact the local police. Bates had been dead for ten years. Norman confronts his mother and urges her to hide in the cellar. She rejects the idea and orders him out of her room, but Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho carries her to the cellar against her will. Posing as a married couple, Sam and Lila check into the motel and search the room Marion had occupied. While Sam distracts Norman, Lila sneaks into the house to search for his mother. Sam suggests to Norman that he killed Marion for the money so he could buy a new motel. Realizing Lila is not around, Norman knocks Sam unconscious with a golf club and rushes to the house. Lila sees him and hides in the cellar where she discovers the mummified body of Norman's mother. Wearing his mother's clothes and a wig and carrying a knife, Norman enters and tries to attack Lila. But Sam, having regained consciousness, subdues Norman with Lila's help. After Norman's arrest, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Simon Richmond tells Sam and Lila that Norman's dead mother is living in Norman's psyche as an alternate personality. After the death of Norman's father, his mother found a lover. Norman went over the Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho with jealousy and murdered both of them. He stole her corpse and preserved the body. When he is Mother, he acts, talks and dresses as she would. Norman imagined his mother would be as jealous of a woman to whom he might be attracted just as he was of his mother's lover, and so Mother kills any woman for whom Norman has feelings. When Norman regains consciousness, he believes that his mother has committed the crime and covers up for her. Richmond concludes that the Mother personality has now taken complete control of Norman's mind, erasing his existence. In the final scene, Norman sits in a cell, thinking in Mother's voice. In a voice-over, Mother explains that she plans to prove to the authorities she is incapable of violence by refusing to swat a fly that has landed on her hand. Marion's car is shown being recovered from the swamp and is followed by the ending credits. The first name of Dr. Richmond was changed from "Fred" to "Simon" while Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho wife of Al Chambers was given the first name "Eliza". Director Gus Van Santemulating Hitchcock's practice of making cameo appearances in his films, appears as "Man talking to man in cowboy hat" at the same point in his film when Hitchcock made his appearance in the original. The audio commentary track that accompanies the DVD release of the film, and the making-of documentary Psycho Path that the DVD includes, provide numerous details about where the film strove to remain faithful to the original, and where it diverged. Some changes are pervasive: as the film opens, it is made clear that it is set in the late s, so minor changes are made throughout the dialogue to reflect the new timeframe. For example, all the references to money are updated how much Marion Crane steals, how much a car costs, how much a hotel room costsas are references to terms from the original script that would seem anachronistic in the new setting. According to Van Sant, in the original the only fully fleshed out character was Norman Bates ; the other major characters were more iconic, purposely written and portrayed to advance the plot. Van Sant relied upon his main cast members more to flesh out and make consistent their characters' motivations, and worked with them to determine to what degree their characters were similar to the originals. According to the commentary by Van Sant, Vaughn, and Heche, some actors, such as Macy, chose to stay true to the original, while others, such as Vaughn and Moore, interpreted the dialogue and scenes Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho the original film differently; Moore's version of Lila Crane, for example, was much more aggressive [ citation needed ] [ who? The cinematography and the cinematic techniques were consistent between the two films in many of the most memorable scenes, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho the shower scene, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho of the mother, scenes of the swamp, and the scene of Arbogast on the staircase, but other scenes changed significantly, particularly the climax, and the Dr. Simon monologue at the end, which was much shorter in the remake. Van Sant's comments from the commentary track attribute many of the updates to the need to make the film more accessible to a new audience. The Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho shower scene was filmed in the same way; the stabbing sound effects were produced by stabbing a melon. Fake blood was used instead of chocolate syrup. Bates dummy. The new film heightened the violence to the levels of depictions of violence in films made circa by portraying two knife wounds in her back and blood on the wall in the shower scene. It also shows the buttocks of the Marion character when she dies, an aspect cut from the original film. The costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor, originally thought that the film was going to be a period piece, so she bought period clothing for the cast. The website's critics consensus reads. Literary critic Camille Paglia commented that the only reason to watch it was "to see Anne Heche being assassinated," and that "it should have been a much more important work and event than it was. Universal Pictures received the Founders Award "for even thinking the moviegoing public would line up and pay to see a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho. Film critic Roger Ebertwho gave the film one-and-a-half Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, noted that the addition of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho masturbation scene was "appropriate, because this new Psycho evokes the real thing in an attempt to re-create remembered passion.

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