Don’t turn your back something is always sneaking around the corner. Psycho, the movie, is mysterious and exciting. Some interesting things in the movie are when Marion is working and is suppose to turn in money into the bank for her boss and she does not. Marion decides to take the money and tell her boss she is not feeling well and decides to take off out of town. As she is leaving town, she is stopped in the road as people were walking across the street and notices her boss in front of her walking sees her in her car and notices that Marion said she wasn’t feeling well and was going to rest in bed but is driving somewhere. Having money can get you in trouble. The money led her to a no good situation, dead on the bathroom floor. Hitchcock …show more content…
Hitchcock creates fear with the use of music. A very good example is, when Norman Bates mother is coming to stab Marion. The music scene reaches a high pitch sound which fears people on what is about to happen. Before Marion is killed I noticed that she had flushed the piece of paper she ripped up down the toilet. After she flushes the toilet, she opens the shower curtain to get in the shower. During the sounds in these scenes, it feels like nothing will go wrong, she’s just in peace. Especially when she is enjoying the shower, you just hear the water. While Marion is being killed, I had noticed her screaming in fear and pain. When the knife is stabbing her, you can hear the jolting of the knife and her groans. After the stabber has left, the music scene gets real low and deep. As well as hearing the water going down the drain with some of the blood mixed in. Hitchcock’s thought of sound was a perfect music types for these scenes. When Marion is getting stabbed you don't want to hear calm and peaceful music, you want to hear horrifying sounds. This captures the audience's attention and draws them more into the movie. Always look at your surroundings, you never know what will happen. I think this movie is a very interesting and creative movie for younger teens. Psycho, the movie, shows many different shot types like long shots, tilt, close ups, and many more. To some people, this movie is scary for them when someone is getting killed. Today there are a lot of movies with foul language and inappropriate scenes. Psycho does not contain nearly all the bad stuff that today’s movies have. This movie is a classic and many people know of this movie. So I believe that this movie is
...en in the form of black and white. The movie was able to hold on to my gaze through all the suspense. I enjoyed the score composed by Bernard Herrmann in the film because it would hint at something that might happen and I felt myself tense up whenever the music came on. The characters were relatable and incidences that occurred in the film were realistic, which made the movie more comprehendible. I would warn people about how mind-boggling the film gets after the shower scene because everything afterwards becomes very fast paced. I feel the viewer would need time to think about the film and pausing is a must in order to fully understand what is going on. I would recommend this film to suspense lovers especially because Psycho is one of Hitchcock’s greatest works of art. I am glad I chose this movie to watch because the movie was well sorted out and very engaging.
‘Psycho’ is a 1960’s thriller that has been voted as one of the top 15
Eventually word got out he was in fact lying. so Alfred Hitchcock had to give another descirption of the movie Quote"Story of a young man whose mother is a homicidal maniac". The word psycho also means split personality. Alfred Hitchcock gives clues for this. e.g the word "Psycho" which is featured on the promoting poster has been completly shattered, which makes you think that the film is about split personalities.
Film Analysis of Psycho When ‘Psycho’ was first screened in New York on 16th June 1960, it was
Alfred Hitchcock’s films not only permanently scar the brains of his viewers but also addict them to his suspense. Hitchcock’s films lure you in like a trap, he tells the audience what the characters don’t know and tortures them with the anticipation of what’s going to happen.
The camera techniques and various other lighting and sound effects used are carefully selected in order to portray the apt emotion in the right amount, without overdoing any of it. Alfred Hitchcock loved to show the emotion of fear along with lots of suspense in his films.
Bully (2001) is a movie based on a true story about a group of rebellious, yet naïve teens who conspire to exact ultimate revenge on a mutual friend. In a twist, unlike most, this movie highlights not only extent of bullying amongst peers, but details the ultimate revenge that would irrevocably change the lives of the entire group. The movie takes place in South Florida where Marty, a high school dropout, and Bobby are “alleged” best friends. As they set out to meet up with mutual friends Ali and Lisa for a double date the bully is immediately apparent as Bobby begins to verbally torment Marty, which quickly turns physical as he repeatedly punches Marty while he is driving for accidently swerving. Although, Marty stops the car and retaliates,
Alfred Hitchcock is known for his masters of works in the film industry. The film he is most famous for is Psycho. Alfred Hitchcock`s Psycho was critically acclaimed not only in the horror genre but within the entire film scene. It encompasses several key themes, which are portrayed through cinematic devices such as camera movement and sound, sound, lighting and costume and set design. The subject of madness becomes increasingly evident as the film progresses, centering on the peculiar character that is Norman Bates.
Throughout the years, many directors have been making movies that seem to "scare the hell out of people". From thrilling to just suspenseful scenes, Alfred Hitchcock explores different techniques to ensure that he captures the audience's attention.
This was no news to Hitchcock's fans. In a 1947 press conference the great director laid out his philosophy of the mystery-horror genre: "I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. Civilization has become so protective that we're no longer able to get our goose bumps instinctively. The only way to remove the numbness and revive our moral equilibrium is to use artificial means to bring about the shock. The best way to achieve that, it seems to me, is through a movie."
The film Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) is an interesting film with many small details that help shape the film in to award winning masterpiece it is. The mise-en-scène is something that can go overlooked, but is very vital in understanding the meaning of the film. According to the book Film Art, mise-en-scène is all of the elements in front of the camera to be photographed, and because of that, this film technique is one that viewers notice most (p. 112). So this includes things like characters, props, nature and even behavior. Motifs and symbolism are prominent throughout the entire movie. They both help develop the plot either by continuously appearing throughout the film or by having a specific meaning that is a lot deeper than what it looks like on the surface. The mise-en-scène, especially motifs and symbolism, of Psycho plays a huge role in helping convey the meaning of the film.
The movie Psycho, is one of the most influential movie in Cinema history to date. The director Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to test many of the conventions of movie making that was common at that time. Alfred Hitchcock movie broke many cultural taboos and challenged the censors. Alfred Hitchcock showed a whole bunch of at the time absurd scene, for example: Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) dying naked while taking a shower, Norman Bates with split personality disorder, and the first ever flushing toilet shown in a movie. Because from the late 1920's to the late 1950's, movies were made usually go around the story, and usually with a lot dialogue. This movie gives the audience an experience that was much more emotional and intuitive. The viewers were caught up in a roller coaster of shock, surprise and suspense based on image, editing and sound.
Moving on too Psycho, Hitchcock both produced and directed the movie, so he had “ a great deal of involvement in the actual planning and filming of Phsyco. His originality in this area constibuted greatly to the unique nature of the film” . Hitchcock successfully made the audience feel like they were “right inside the situation instead of leaving the to watch it from outside, from a distance”. As a director he broke the actions into details “ cutting from one to the other, so that each detail is forced in turn on the attention of the audience and reveals its psychological meaning.”
In the article, “Psycho at Fifty: Pure Cinema or Invitation to an Orgy?” by John A. Bertolini, he describes how the images and scenes throughout the whole movie and its more arguable parts are what made the film stick with the imagination of Hitchcock’s audience. He goes on to give an explanation of how Hitchcock is as well one of few directors who is able to mix a little humor to go along with his vicious plot. Bertolini speculates that the audience was thrown off by savagery depicted in this film and more concerned with the emotions that were created by Hitchcock’s movie. He also outlines how much controversy the film created Psycho by stating how it, “reflected the changes at work in the larger society, especially the increasing insiste...
Alfred Hitchcock has built suspense to create engagement. This is exemplified through the use of non-diegetic dramatic score music to foreshadow the mystery of the narrative and explicitly establishes the genre of the film - Thriller. Through the non-diegetic music, the audience feel suspense as they do not know what has triggered the disequilibrium. This keeps the viewers at the edge of their seats.