In the parlor scene from Psycho, Norman invited Marion to his parlor and shows her eating sandwiches and drinking milk. One recognizable camera technique used in the scenes is that we continually see Marion from the frontal view, whereas with Norman we only see him from side. In doing this, the viewers are led to view Norman in a bad light as it shows his potential for evil. It gives him a spooky persona. Also the use of shadow that covers his face, suggests to viewers his split personality as a character. It was meant for us to see Marion as a pure and wholesome character, and Norman as creep and sadistic. Another notable technique in this scene is the use of cross-cutting between Marion and Norman. Throughout the whole scene the Norman and
Another scene that’s important to dissect is the infamous shower scene where Marion is murdered by Norman’s “mother.” This scene is important because it again shows how Hitchcock is able to manipulate his audience. This one short scene has over 30 cuts that move in rapid succession from various angles. These tricks
In the scene when the killer enters the showers while Marion is taking a bath, the shower curtains acted as a screen to the audience’s sight and later in the film, the shower curtain was used to wrap up the Marion’s body. Another example would be the parlor scene where Marion was sited on a comfortable coach while Norman sat on an upright and formal wooden chair. The usage of furniture suggested character’s attributes, as Marion has a rather relax and open-minded personality while Norman being a tense and uptight
In the movie each of the main characters, Norman who is eighty years old, Ethel who is seventy years old and Chelsea who is forty years old go through some of the stages of psychosocial development. The first character in the movie I will be talking about is Norman. I recognized him first from the movie because I knew something seemed wrong with him. For example, in the beginning of the movie him and his wife Ethel goes to their vacation spot and he sees a picture of them and doesn’t recognize who the people are. His wife had to remind him that it was them in the picture. He is very forgetful and it seems that his mental is not as strong as it
In the novel A Room with a View there are two main settings that not only contrast in location but also in atmosphere. The author, E.M. Forster uses Florence, Italy and Summer Street, England to exaggerate the differences in the main character’s state of mind influenced by the people and places around her. The restricting culture of early 1900 Europe in which the story takes place also plays a role in the varying settings as the author strives to convey his purpose.
Within the novel A Room with a View, E. M. Forster explores the differences between 2 social classes. A young woman of upper class by the name of Lucy Honeychurch has traveled from a luxury estate in England to Italy where she will unlock new characteristics of herself. What Lucy did not know was that on her trip her world would take a complete 180-degree turn towards a perspective that is distinctly different than what she is taught to believe. Italy allows Lucy to meet impactful and influential people, such as the Emersons and Mrs. Lavish, who encourage to explore her mind and question her preconceived notions regarding both her place in society and individual desires for happiness.
The film I chose to watch is the original Psycho, filmed in 1960 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The stars of the cast included Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam. (IMDB.com, 2006) The story begins about a young woman named Marion Crane from Arizona who is fed up with her life and longs to marry her boyfriend, Sam. Unfortunately, the couple has little money and cannot marry. One Friday afternoon, she is asked to deposit forty-thousand dollars for her boss. Seeing the money as an opportunity to start a new life with her lover, she takes off for California with the money. She ends up becoming tired from the drive and pulls into the Bates Motel. Unfortunately for Marion, the owner of the motel, Norman
Hitchcock explained the reason for filming a woman wearing only her under garments in the opening sequence of Psycho: "Audiences are changing....The straightforward kissing scene would be looked down at by the younger viewers....Nowadays you have to show them as they themselves behave" (Hitchcock 1). The director was keenly aware of how audiences responded to his films (Rebello 163) and sought to maintain their interest. He was among a handful of Hollywood filmmakers who deliberately sought out innovative composers (Nowell-Smith 258); for Psycho, Hitchcock hired Bernard Hermann who wrote a modern score which challenged the norm. The title itself, fifties and sixties slang for the violently psychotic, suggested the imminence of a new generation (Brill 200).
To complete the signature assignment, the movie Annie Hall (1977) was used to document how a client might feel as they enter therapy for treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The central figure in Annie Hall (1977) was a white male named Alvy Singer, played by actor Woody Allen. Singer has a diagnosis of GAD and has been in treatment for his disorder with a psychiatrist for 15-years that began in his early childhood. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) suggests that an individual with this disorder is locked into a range of maladaptive emotions due to what is identified as a cognitive attentional syndrome (CAS). Cognitive attentional syndrome (CAS) maintains that the individual constantly experiences numerous forms of repetitive
When "Bates Motel" begins, Norman seems to be a normal teenage boy, who is a bit of an introvert. He prefers school work and reading to going out and being social. He has an extremely
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) kills Marion Crane (Janet Leigh). Marion who wanted to lead a happy family life with her boy friend Sam Loomis (John Gavin) after marriage and hence steals money and flees Phoenix and becomes a prey for the psychopath Norman Bates. Norman Bates overpowered by his dead mother’s personality kills the woman who comes in between the relationship with his mother. Norman has no other motive. Only his frustrated sexuality when he meets a woman can be the motive. As the case of a split personality syndrome Norman takes the role of his dead mother, and targets those women who come to his motel. Possessed by his mother, he dresses like her and here he slashes Marion on the shower. When Lila Crane (Vera Miles) along with Sam comes in search of
Norman Bates from Psycho was sheltered by his mother. Being taught that no woman will be greater than his mother and practically smothered by her every day, Norman realized he was not only attracted to his mom, but also wanted to have sex with her. This anger for his confused sexuality and distressed nature of his gender is the driving factor for his
The film begins with Norman waking up and getting dressed in his bed. Such a large man sleeping in a twin size bed seems a bit off and so does him getting ready and clothes early in the morning, to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the day. After doing a couple of squats, Norman grabs an old scrapbook where he put together a compilation of old newspaper clippings where the headlines discussed him, Spaceboy. He goes through this scrapbook because it makes him feel special. As a child he was wildly popular and discussed frequently based on his scrapbook.
Joyce Byers is one of the main leading characters in “Stranger things.” She is the mother of two boys Will and Jonathan. They live in a small town called Hawkins, Indiana. To start off the show, Joyce seems to be a mother who is burning the candle at both ends. She seems as though she is working all the time and does not have time for her boys. One night, Will’s older brother Jonathan does not make sure he is home because he thought that his mother did. Then of course Will is not there in the morning when his mother tries to get him up for school and they can not find him. Joyce goes into a panic like any mother would, and this starts the going downhill in the way that she acts and does certain things. According to Simply Psychology, Abnormal psychology is a division of psychology that studies people who are "abnormal" or "atypical"
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” (Easton Ellis). Are we considered evil by our action or thoughts? If we are constantly contemplating evil and horrific thoughts but do not act upon them, the initial thoughts may still influence our unconscious minds, which can then, in turn, affect our conscious thoughts and actions indirectly. Compare that to those who act upon their evil thoughts and therefore are more authentic to their natural and uninfluenced personality. Humans are strongly related to our savage animal brothers; however we do everything in our means to appear separate and civilized. Regardless of our attempt at separation, we still remain savage beasts by nature and suppressing our natural state only makes our
In the scene where “Mother” kills Marion she sneaks into Marion’s motel room while she showers and surprises her. Then stabs her to death, and then leaves her to bleed out in the bathtub. “Mother” acts in a wildly, animalistic fashion during this scene, which is aided by the style in which Hitchcock films and edits his