Psycho Movie Analysis

If you have not seen Dazed and Confused than you are really missing out. It is a great movie that relates from everything to High School to Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll. With an outstanding cast (from the past) it is a movie that everyone can relate to. Dazed and Confused reflects the lifestyle of kids that are entering high school for the first time, to seniors owning the school and being the "man" on compass. It portrays that freshman must watch their backs at all times and if you think you're as cool as the seniors, then you better watch out. There is a ritual that the seniors do to the freshman that have given so many people in reality a though of. With School being out for summer, in Dazed and Confused, it offers a great soundtrack from

“Who you gonna call ?” In this 2016 remake of the pop culture favorite Ghostbusters (1984) directed by Ivan Reitman, Actor and producer Paul Feig directs the new Ghostbusters with a handpicked all Female lead cast. With the association of men playing the part of the strong and masculine role, by default Actresses are expected to play the loving, caring, and nurturing role expected by society. In this film, Dr. Abby Yates and Jillian Holtzman reunite with Abby’s childhood friend Erin Gilbert and together they study and investigate paranormal activities. After being called to a site in the subway metro station, they meet Patty Tolan an MTA worker , who officially join them and together they become the “Ghostbusters.” They also hire a dim witted secretary named Kevin Beckman who helps them shut down the portal and save the New York City population. Although this film is a female lead film, Reitman’s version of the Ghostbusters demonstrates its high quality through a praiseworthy cast , a reversed gender role, and marvelous visual and special effects.

American Psycho is a movie adaptation directed by Marry Harron released in the year 2000 that was based off of the 1991 novel of the same name authored by Bret Easton Ellis. The movie focuses on the main character Patrick Bateman who is an investment banker in New York in the era of the early 1980’s. Patrick is a perfectionist whose life by day seemingly rotates between his picture-perfect job, his superficial relationship with his fiancée Evelyn, and his shallow interaction with his co-workers and peers. By night, Patrick is a textbook Psychopath and a serial killer.

The movie Blow is the story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s. The film starts with George as a child, showing what his childhood was like and what his relationship with his parents was like. As it progresses George grows up and moves to California. While there he become caught up in the marijuana scene and eventually starts selling it for money. George expands his market and eventually becomes very wealthy. But, George becomes too complacent and gets caught by the police and sentenced to prison. While there he meets and makes friends with Diego Delgado and learns about the drug Cocaine. Together they find a way to traffic it into the United States and again George becomes extremely wealthy.

Long before we find out about Norman's split personality, we see glimpses of a darker side. When Norman has dinner with Marion, he leans forwards as he speaks about putting his mother in an institution. The lighting of his face at an angle to illuminate the area around his eyes but casting a shadow on the rest of his face, creates a sinister, weird look, that hints at his true character. While we see this view of Norman, the background shifts to a more fierce-looking bird on the wall. Another visual technique used in the movie was the actual casting of the character Norman. A fairly small, slim man was used to portray a weak looking man who could pull off the mother's boy role realistically. Norman looks incapable of large amounts of strength as well as a character wise, unable to kill a person, let alone be a serial killer. The shower scene was a very good visual example of how the idea of schizophrenic murder was successfully dealt with in the film. The shower scene showed Marion Crane, a young woman who had just been subtly persuaded by Norman to repent of her recent crime, and so was washing herself physically and symbolically in the shower. Washing away her sin and guilt, because in the morning she would own up to her crime, pay for it, and start again, guilt free. This worked well to add greater emphasis on the shower scene, because at this turning point in the plot we see she has made a good decision to set things right. It is almost unbelievable that Marion could be murdered at this high point. Nonetheless, the film goes on with her murder, which is a very shocking sequence because it happens quickly; as the knife stabs Marion, we see the figure of Mrs. Bates a figure in a dress with a woman's hat on. We are led to assume it is Mrs. Bates, and we are given a big surprise at the end when we find out it was actually Norman wearing her dress. The

Many may remember the movie, Psycho, as the classic horror film that had an iconic shower-stabbing scene. The movie is about an eerily creepy man named Norman Bates who at times believes he is his deceased mother, Norma Bates. When he is Norma, he murders beautiful women that check into the Bates Motel. The TV series is set as a prequel to Psycho and begins in the modern day with a seventeen-year-old sweet and charming

After taking a college class that analyzes strategy, it has opened my eyes to the true virtues of people. My project was to contrast the strategies used by two documentary directors; Joshua Fox and Phelim McAleer. Fox directed Gasland and McAleer directed FrackNation. Reading Think Like A Freak by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, it was interesting to watch how both directors thought like freaks in their documentaries but it in polar opposite ways. Also, studying from the book of Strategy by Lawrence Freedman, I took the approach of Satan verses God while comparing the strategies used. FrackNation was a response documentary to Fox’s film, in other words, McAleer attempted to disprove all of Fox’s claims and to have fracking looked at in a better light. Studying many forms and interpretations of strategy, I was successfully able to discover the underlying meanings of the perspectives and motives of the two documentary directors.

For decades his films have left his audience with feelings of paranoia. Psycho and Vertigo are two films in particular that have left a huge impression. Alfred Hitchcock was known for introducing many different techniques to film making, one being the creative use of the camera. He used the camera more as a set of eyes rather than a simple tool on stage. He did not let his audiences simply view his movies; he made audiences feel like they were in them by using angles that the character sees. This way the viewers can see through the eyes of the character and gain an emotional attachment for them. Alfred Hitchcock’s secret to success was his subtly and mastery of

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.

Outcome One is being aware of the context one must write, and tailoring it to reach the intended audience. Being conscious of the genre is very important, because it can change the way the paper needs to be formatted.

In the movie Psycho a secretary is on the run after she stole $40,000 from her boss in order to run away with her boyfriend. Later on, she stops for the night at the Bates Motel, which is owned by a man named Norman and his mother. As the story plays out the viewer is able to see that Norman and his mother has a unique relationship with each other which can also be seen as difficult and complicated. The secretary soon dies in the movie and so does a private investigator. As investigation is going on about the disappearance of the secretary it is soon discovered that Norman’s mother has been dead for a while and that Norman has a personality disorder. With this personality disorder his jealous mother side comes out and kills people. The director

Parlour Scene Analysis In the 1960 horror ‘Psycho’, a lot is revealed to the audience about the characters in the parlour scene. It is a crucial scene in the film due to the fact it is where the audience starts to see Norman’s true intentions. Normally, the ‘baddie’ is portrayed as harsh and unlikeable, however Norman comes across as friendly and an overall likeable person. However, during this scene we start to see a different side to Norman that suggests he may have ulterior motives.

A young woman pulls into a motel, somewhere in California. It’s raining. She checks in, alone, and settles for the night. Once in the room, the woman then undresses and turns on the shower. As she showers, a suspenseful violin music starts playing and she’s surprised by what seems to be an old lady holding a knife, who violently pulls aside the shower curtain. The woman screeches. The attacker then stabs the naked woman multiple times until she lies dead in the bathtub.

Schizophrenia is defined by the American Psychological Association as, “a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behavior and speech, and delusions or hallucinations, such as hearing voices.” Though only effecting 1% of the population, the complex and long-term psychological disorder interferes greatly with the daily life of those diagnosed. Victims of schizophrenia often experience a combination of positive (hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech/thinking/behavior, catatonic behavior, etc…), negative (affective flattening, alogia, avolition), and cognitive (difficulty understanding, poor memory, difficulty integrating thoughts, feelings and behavior) symptoms. In the movie Shutter Island, the main character repeatedly shows the gradual increase of subtle signs of both schizophrenia and PTSD.

When it comes to graphic violence, the one scene that sticks out in the film is the shower murder scene. Some people like David Thomson, the author of “The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder” thought that it was one of the most violent scenes to be shot for an American film (Robb). The scene was only 45 seconds long, but the reaction to the scene was like nothing the film industry has seen before.