Though van Sant utilized an unusual approach (his Psycho followed Hitchcock's nearly shot-for-shot), his version of Psycho received mixed reviews, and was awarded a Golden Raspberries Award. In 1998, Gus van Sant's remake of Hitchcock's Psycho was released. The film spawned several sequels, though they are generally seen as works of lesser quality. Commonly regarded as one of Hitchcock's best films, Psycho has also been acclaimed as one of the most effective horror films. The affecting, subtly humorous screenplay was written by Joseph Stefano, and, overall, is quite faithful to the novel. Production Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Blochīloch's novel was adapted into an acclaimed black-and-white feature film in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock.Someday, you may be able to play the music. The great musician then patted the child on the head and said, "You can play the notes. The child climbed onto the piano stool and played something by Chopin with great speed and accuracy. I was reminded of the child prodigy who was summoned to perform for a famous pianist. Attending this new version, I felt oddly as if I were watching a provincial stock company doing the best it could without the Broadway cast. I viewed Hitchcock's "Psycho" a week ago. By having a psychiatrist ( Robert Forster) reproduce a five-minute speech of clinical diagnosis at the end of the film, Van Sant demonstrates that a completely unnecessary scene in the original, if reproduced, will be completely unnecessary in the remake as well. Macy as the private eye Arbogast, and Philip Baker Hall as Sheriff Chambers. The only new cast members who more or less get the job done are William H. Instead of suggesting a straight arrow like John Gavin in the original film, he brings an undertow of elusive weirdness. Viggo Mortensen is also wrong for Sam Loomis, the lover. Van Sant's decision to shoot in color instead of black and white completes the process of de-eroticizing her she wears an orange dress that looks like the upholstery from my grandmother's wing chair. Among actors in the correct age range, my suggestion would be Jeremy Davies, who was the frightened Corporal Upham in " Saving Private Ryan."Īnne Heche, as Marion Crane, lacks the carnal quality and the calculating detachment that Janet Leigh brought to the original film. Possibly no actor could have matched the Perkins performance, which is one of the unique creations in the cinema, but Vaughn is not the actor to try. Anthony Perkins, in the original, made it seem compulsive, welling up out of some secret pool of madness. Norman's early dialogue often ends in a nervous laugh. One problem is the casting of Vaughn in the Norman Bates role. 1: Even if Hitchcock was hinting at sexual voyeurism in his 1960 version, it is better not to represent it literally, since the jiggling of Norman's head and the damp off-screen sound effects inspire a laugh at the precise moment when one is not wanted.Īll of these details would be insignificant if the film worked as a thriller, but it doesn't. And more blood.Īs for the masturbation scene as Norman spies on Marion through the peephole between the parlor and Room No. Bates" during the knife attack in the shower. When Marion goes into the "parlor" of Norman Bates ( Vince Vaughn), the stuffed birds above and behind them are in indistinct soft focus, so we miss the feeling that they're poised to swoop. We never get the chilling closer shot of him waiting across the street from the car lot, arms folded on his chest. The highway patrolman who wakes her from her roadside nap looks much the same as in the original, but has a speaking voice which, I think, has been electronically tweaked to make it deeper-and distracting. In the scene in which Marion packs while deciding to steal the money, Heche does more facial acting than Janet Leigh did in the original-trying to signal what she's thinking with twitches and murmurs. There is a shot of Loomis' buttocks, and when he turns toward her, a quick downward glance of appreciation by Marion. The opening shot is now an unbroken camera move from the Phoenix skyline into the hotel room where Marion Crane ( Anne Heche) is meeting with her lover, Sam Loomis ( Viggo Mortensen). Students of trivia will note the differences.
0 kommentar(er)
