Psycho

Psycho (1960) is an American horror film, based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch. The film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Joseph Stefano and remains in general quite true to the book.

This film is widely seen as one of the best films of Hitchcock and as one of the most effective horror films. Psycho contains a shower-scene that was subsequently widely quoted in other films. There is a number of sequels to the movie, on the second part after, generally be seen as work of lesser quality.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film begins in Phoenix, Arizona. Marion Crane, a young woman, steals $ 40,000 from her boss to marry her boyfriend, Sam Loomis. She flees to Sams House. En route she exchanges her car in to the police on the wrong track. A storm forces her to spend the night in a remote motel. Motel owner Norman Bates wants to invite her for dinner at the House of his family, but his mother wants to know anything here. Therefore brings Norman Marion her dinner in the motel. When Norman's mother comes to dinner. According to Marion can they better be included in any setting, but Norman wants her not leave you alone. That night she takes a shower, while Marion, murdered by a female figure. Norman thinks his mother behind the murder is and tries all traces that can lead to obliterate her. He clogged Marions body and all her belongings in her car and dumps it in aswamp.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Music
 * 3.3 Receipt
 * 3.4 Aftermath for the actors
 * Sue 3.5
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external link

Meanwhile, Sam called by Marions sister Lila and also by Milton Arbogast, a detective who is hired by Marions boss in order to find the stolen money back. Arbogast to the motel where he traces Marions track to Norman interrogates. Who tries in vain to pretend Marion but later one night and has left. Arbogast also want to interrogate, but Norman Normans mother refuses, because according to him, she is ill. Shortly after Arbogast Lilac informed by telephone of his findings, he is also murdered. Moments later we see Norman to his mother asking if they want to hide in the cellar since there are certainly more people will come to investigate the disappearances in the motel. She rejects this idea, so Norman brings her against her will to the basement.

When Arbogast nothing more is heard of itself, go Sam and Lila to the hulpsherriff Al Chambers. This is surprised because when Norman's mother dead and buried for ten years. Shocked Lila and Sam go to the motel where they occur as a married couple. They find a piece of paper with room and searching Marions thereupon the text "$ 40,000". While Sam distracts Norman, Lila goes into the House. Sam suspect it to have murdered Marion Norman for the money and tries to let him confess this making the situation more and more tense is. Eventually saves Norman Sam unconscious and rushes to the House. When Lila sees Norman arrive, they the basement in flight. There she discovers a woman in a rocking chair.It turns out the mummified body of Normans mother. A bit later Norman, dressed in clothes of the cellar in his mother and with a wig on. he falls to Lilac, but Sam comes just in time to save her.

Sam and Lila flee the motel and call the police, which Norman arrests. A psychiatrist then explanation: Norman is suffering from a psychosis leaving his dead mother in his fantasy survived and turned on him to the murders. The psychosis with him also caused a split personality, with his mother's is the second personality. To know more about Normans also leads past: he had killed his mother and her new lover because he couldn't have that they dealt with another man. After that he tried to undo the crime by his mother on his way to bring back "to life". ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Psycho is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which in turn is based on the case of Ed Gein, a convicted serial killer from Wisconsin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  Peggy Robertson, an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, the novel brought to his attention after they had read a review of it in the newspaper. Hitchcock's home studio to film the book rejected the idea, but Hitchcock bought the film rights to the book.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  he wanted to make the film among other things to recover from two previous failed film projects: Flamingo Feather and No Bail for the Judge.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Hitchcock got from Paramount don't have the budget that he had gotten for his previous films.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  therefore he caused that the movie cheap and record as soon as possible, equal to an episode of his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He even hired the crew of that series in to help the film. He financed the film personally.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The film was produced in Revue Studios, at a budget of $ 806.947, 55. Shooting took place from 11 november 1959 to February 1, 1960.

<p lang="en" len="1098" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The production process was filmed and released in autumn 2006 in 2012 as Hitchcock, with Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins and James D'Arcy as Jessica Biel as Vera Miles. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Hitchcock insisted that Bernard Herrmann would compose the music for Psycho, although not the amount he normally he Herrmann for his services able to pay early.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Smith_236_4-0" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  the music that Herrmann composed is known as one of the best soundtracks of a Hitchcock movie.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  Herrmann made the production costs for the music only to compose the music for a lower by String Orchestra instead of a full orchestra. ===Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">First reviews from critics on the film were mixed, but the general public responded positively. The film broke revenue records in the United States, Asia, Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and South America. It was one of the most successful black and white films ever.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Contemporary Psycho is considered the best film from Hitchcock's oeuvre.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grap_6-0" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  The Director expressed his satisfaction with the fear that the film called on the part of the public, but suggested in an interview with the BBC from 1964 that one should leave the cinema hall "giggling": "I liked the story especially amusing. The whole movie was for me a big joke. I was shocked when I found it all very seriously people names. "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grap_6-1" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6] ===Aftermath for the actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The success of Anthony Perkins in Psycho made a hit a known actor. He started to get soon plagued by typecasting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Leigh got after outcome of the film for years regulated letters and sometimes phone calls in which anonymous people told her what they would like to do with Marion Crane. One of these letters was so threatening that they set up the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hired. This reported later that the perpetrator was found.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="158" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8] ===Sue<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Psycho had three official sequels, none of which are directed by Hitchcock. Different from the original, these all three in color. Protagonist Perkins returns in all parts back as Norman Bates.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">In 1998 came a new version of Psycho by Gus Van Sant from Psycho , also called. Although Van Sant an almost exact copy of the version of Hitchcock made (with other actors), were the mixed responses to his version. The film received a Golden Raspberry Award. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">In 1992 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
 * Psycho II (1983)
 * Psycho III (1986)
 * Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)