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Old 05.29.2006, 06:42 PM   #1
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This is my favorite Hitchcock film & my third favortie movie ever.

Does anyone else think it's as great as I do? Just wondering.
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Old 05.29.2006, 06:45 PM   #2
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yeah great movie, performances are all fantastic. I wish I wasn't as desensitized as i am to those type of movies. I'd love to know what that'd have been like in the cinema when it was released. Hermann's score is essential to the story.

I know it's a good movie if i remember exactly where i was the first time i saw it and this is one of those movies
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Old 05.29.2006, 06:50 PM   #3
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Did you know that Marion Crane's (Vivien Leigh's) white 1957 Ford sedan is the same car (owned by Universal) that the Cleaver family drove on TV's "Leave It to Beaver"?

How cool is that?
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Old 05.29.2006, 06:53 PM   #4
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Ah, all the taboos that film played with. Cross-dressing, voyerism. A movie way ahead of its time.
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Old 05.29.2006, 06:55 PM   #5
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Ths score is so great.

johnnywinternoshow already knows this, no doubt, but it was Psycho that changed theater admission rules.

On Hitchcock's insistence, "No One ... BUT NO ONE ... Will Be Admitted To The Theatre After The Start Of Each Performance Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ..."

What a genius tagline.
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Old 05.29.2006, 06:56 PM   #6
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Great example of post-modern film.
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Old 05.29.2006, 06:59 PM   #7
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was it a hitchcock movie that had the tagline "just repeat... it's only a movie, it's only a movie"?
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:03 PM   #8
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was it a hitchcock movie that had the tagline "just repeat... it's only a movie, it's only a movie"?

I think you're thinking of "Last House on the Left."
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:06 PM   #9
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i bought that cus of it's video nasty press, what a big disappointment, i thought i was in for a real splatterfest, haven't watched it again since the day i bought it
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I really enjoyed the Norman Bates character as a whole. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the famous shower scene.
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:09 PM   #11
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Wait, there was a shower scene?
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Chocolate syrup was used instead of blood. Most people know that.

That pan as the camera goes to her lifeless body & then the eye spiraling like water down a drain. It's the most memorable shot in all of cinema.

In the Itchy Scratch & Marge episode where Marge bans cartoon violence, Homer gets hit over the head with some red paint & the camerawork is imitated.
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:13 PM   #13
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the vince vaughn remake was totally shit, wasn't it? it's the equivalent of some contemporary religious guy rewriting the bible with judus spying on jesus through a hole in the wall tugging one off
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haha yeah sort of...ah, it was okay. I like Vince Vaughn & Juliane Moore & it was done shot-by-shot basically which was a tasteful choice.


Gus Van Sant is okay too. I used to really, really like his work a lot more though.
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:28 PM   #15
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the vince vaughn remake was totally shit, wasn't it? it's the equivalent of some contemporary religious guy rewriting the bible with judus spying on jesus through a hole in the wall tugging one off

Possibly the worst re-make of all time. Terribley mis-cast, especially Anne Heche as Marianne Crane. No sense of art what-so-ever.
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:33 PM   #16
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Yeah the score is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Psycho. Like LifeDistortion mentioned it was pretty ahead of it's time. Pretty tuff to fuck with.....really weird ass shit when you think about it.
 
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Old 05.29.2006, 07:37 PM   #17
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I'm incredibly ashamed to say that I have not seen Psycho. It's one of those movies that I always pick up at Blockbuster, carry it around, and then decide on something else. That and Fight Club. And until recently, Citizen Kane, but I finally got around to that one and it was even better than I expected. I just need to set aside one week and watch all the classics that I've deprived myself of.
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Yeah the score is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Psycho. Like LifeDistortion mentioned it was pretty ahead of it's time. Pretty tuff to fuck with.....really weird ass shit when you think about it.




 


also breaking the mold was that for nearly exactly half of the movie, Vivien Liegh is the main focus & then she gets killed off to shocking effect.
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Old 05.29.2006, 08:03 PM   #19
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Another movie I never saw in whole. I'd like to see birds I here its pretty great.
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