Transcript Hitchcock- PSYCHO PowerPoint-Tvetex

Director ……………… Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter ….…….. Joseph Stefano
Based on novel ……. Robert Bloch
Editor …………………. George Tomasini
Music ……………….... Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography ….. John L. Russell
Costume …………….. Rita Riggs
Pictorial Consultant… Saul Bass
Norman Bates ……… Anthony Perkins
Marion Crane ……… Janet Leigh
Lila Crane …………... Vera Miles
Sam Loomis ………… John Gavin
Milton Arbogast …… Martin Balsam
Sher. Al Chambers… John McIntire
Dr. Fred Richmond ... Simon Oakland
Caroline …………….. Pat Hitchcock
Formalist
 Psychological Thrillers
 Reoccurring Characters & Themes:
wrongly accused man
cool blondes
surprising violence
suspicion/doubt
 Virtuoso Editing
 Droll Humor
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Nine Death Masks
10 Women’s Heads
4 Noses
Human Skin Chairs
Skull Bowls
Skulls on Bedposts
• Best Selling Issue
until Princess Diana’s
Death
•14th Most Interesting
Person of the Year
(1991)
• Women 8 of 10 times killed by
person they know
• ½ women killed by
husbands/boyfriends
•Only about 20 serial killers/year
killing 200 ppl (15, 000 by others)
•More likely to catch malaria or
leprosy
•$11,200,000
•Highest Grossing Hitchcock film
•Broke records: China, Japan,
France, Britain, Canada, South
America, U.S.
•One of the top grossing black
and white films of all time
•Mixed reviews—eventually
re-reviewed
•Nominated for 4 Academy Awards
•Leigh won Golden Globe for Best
Supporting Actress
•1992—selected for preservation in
National Film Registry
• #14 on AFI’s 100 Best Movies list
• 2 sequels: Psycho II (1983),
Psycho III (1986)
•1 prequel: Psycho IV (1990)
screenwriter- Joseph Stefano
All 3 starring Anthony Perkins
• 1 remake (1998)
• Graphic Novel Series
1978 horror classic Halloween 1977
High Anxiety,
1980 Fade to Black,
1980 Dressed to Kill, Invader Zim,
Hoshi no Kaabii,
2003 live-action/animated Looney
Tunes: Back in Action.
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montage
3 minutes
50 cuts
extreme close-ups
few medium shots
7 days to shoot
casaba melon
chocolate syrup
music: all strings— “The Murder”
MUSIC
Bernard Herrmann, composer
*Citizen Kane to Twilight Zone
*Team Hitchcock
 all strings
 stark
 How important is it?
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