I was reading a book called Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, so I took a peek at some sections of the film. Talk about my two nemeses: final exposition and psychology. The ending exposition is really funny to me... the psychologist's grimly serious, psycho-babble-filled monologue about Norman. And exactly how do you know all this? Even more bizarre is the Vince Vaughn-starring Psycho (1998). I only watched bits and pieces (free on Netflix instant) but the bits I saw were in fact a shot-by-shot copy of the original as I had heard. When Vince Vaughn first shows up in a wig, it looks like something out of a fraternity prank. Kind of funny. A really odd film. I love the story in the Hitchcock book where it talks about his technical virtuosity. He tells his DP to pop on a 50 mm lens, put the subject about 10 feet away and he should get a nice medium shot (or something like that).
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the cool thing about psycho is exactly that - that there are only a few cool parts. they're very short, but memorable.
Interestingly, I've read that the shower sequence was storyboarded by Saul Bass (also the title designer of the film) who was apparently a student of Vorkapich's at USC. A great book on Vorkapich-ian montage is Ed Spiegel's Innocence of the Eye.
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