The Making Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

Explore the ways in which Stevenson creates an effective horror story in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

Tim Burton, a masterful Director who effectively uses his techniques to really enhance a story’s capabilities to tell a tale. In Vincent Malloy he used cinematic techniques to show the gloominess and loneliness that Vincent Malloy felt when he thought he was Vincent Price. Tim Burton uses close ups and low key lighting in order to depict loneliness and to communicate that being lonely and isolated may be how you start, but when you really come out is when your true colors really shine.

Sigmund Freud's studies in psychoanalysis are uncannily fore-grounded in the late romantic period. The works of William Wordsworth, Percy B. Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, all function as poetic preludes to Freud's 18th century field. Particularly, it is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that creates a fictional rendering for psychoanalyst. In Frankenstein, Victor's rejection of the Monster metaphorically represents the ego's rejection of the unconscious. Following from this metaphorical paradigm, Freud's theories on narcissism, the libido theory, the doppelganger, neurosis, and the Oedipus-complex all resonate in the pages of Frankenstein. After a brief introduction to narcissism and

The film did not have much influence on pop culture, although it surely set the standards for the making of a film with the use of crane shots and other technology. While Citizen Kane lacks depth, Psycho surely has it. The characters in Psycho are much more fleshed out. By the end of the movie, we truly understand their motives and values and we can get a sense of who they are as a person even though we only see this snapshot of their lives. With Psycho, the goal was to make you feel connected to the characters, like Norman Bates. It was set up in a way that we would be charmed, feel sympathy for Norman, and begin to root for him. By the end of the movie you are conflicted because it’s revealed instead of him covering up for his insane mother, he has been the one committing murder and has a split personality of his mother (Robb, 2010). By the end of Citizen Kane, it did not feel like Kane was really a multi-dimensional character and there was no sympathy generated for him or the other characters except maybe his first wife. Psycho is also more understandable than Citizen Kane is at times. Kane uses time lapses to switch back from past to present with confusing transitions while Psycho is chronological.

In The Uncanny, Freud discusses the different definitions and claims that various theorists have made regarding the feeling of uncanny. He defines the different factors that provoke the uncanny in humans and demonstrates how these factors elicit that strange and seemingly inexplicable feeling. Similarly, in Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, adopts the various factors that cause the uncanny to alter Scottie’s identity and beliefs. Ultimately, when Scottie is transformed from a rational being to a psychotic obsessive, it serves to indicate the severity of Scottie’s mental instability and his detachment from reality.

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Good and evil, almost everything can be categorized as one or the other. Although is it fair to label a person after one situation? A “kind” or “nice,” a person can go from looking harmless and innocent too vicious and hateful. If it is villainous to do something, is it not also villainous to watch it for entertainment? In Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” he states that we are all as much of a psychopath as the people we put in asylums. The human condition has a corrupt core, even if some people conceal it in a dark place and fight their urges with horror movies. While many may believe the horror genre is childish, King’s ideas are accurate because the human condition feeds off of terror.

The character I chose to analyze is Norman Bates. Norman Bates originated as the main character in Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho". In the movie "Psycho", Norman is a middle-aged who runs a motel. He is a psychotic serial killer with many psychological issues. More recently Norman Bates became the main character in a television show called "Bates Motel." In the show, we see Norman in his teenage years. This is where we see Norman's psychological issues begin to develop. As a teenage Norman, we also get to see more of Norman's relationship with his mother.

One of the reasons that this film made the top ten films of all time

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Alfred Hitchcock is widely considered one of the most essential directors of all time and has undeniably revolutionized the cinematic art form and horror genre movement. A key ingredient to his productions is the psychoanalysis of the movie’s villains and the deceivery at comes with deep psychosis. These elements are what have taken Hitchcock from a good director to a legend. Hitchcock layers his movies in ways in which every time one watches his films they can pick up on a new detail that deepens the meaning and effects of the storyline. This is exactly what he does in his 1960 film, Psycho. By layering Freudian psychoanalysis, creating a twist ending and suspense, and giving the villain of the story, Norman Bates, a deeply rich background story, Hitchcock creates phenomenon in the audience arguably scarier, then Norman’s murders. Through this use the psychoanalysis and backstory, the audience also feels sympathy for Norman. This duality is what makes Hitchcock a wonderful artist and Psycho, a piece of art.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980), the “Master of Suspense”, was a English film director, who was well known for his use of suspense and psychological elements to shock and surprise his audience. Hitchcock was known for his use of recurring themes, motifs and plot devices, such as the use of birds, hand motifs, the audience as a voyeur, mothers, blonde women, and sexuality. He was also very technical in his editing, using filming techniques such as deep focus, point of view, close up and wide, tracking shots. Montage was also a technique he used frequently in his films. He believed that by using visuals, he could convey thoughts and emotions just as well as dialogue could.

American Psycho has been recognized as a brilliant thriller of its time and can legitimately be labeled a scandalous novel. The novel was published in 1991 by the daring author Bret Easton Ellis and was later adapted into a movie production in 2000 by the director Mary Harron. The novel endured nasty criticism to the point of rousing riots and the boycott of the publishing company, Simon & Schuster; who later dropped the publication of the book, due to the negative publicity. Bret Easton Ellis’ novel was convicted of national censorship, and remains censored in select countries. The disapproval of Ellis’ novel was based on the graphic sequences of sexual violence and the