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other are what shape the structure of the movie. These conflicts show the audience many sides of good and evil portrayed by the different characters in particular Marion and Norman. Lighting is used expressively in the film. When Marion goes to the Bates motel the lighting is more subdued.

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 Galada Aditya U1422406K SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK Filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock was nicknamed “The Master of Suspense”. Hitchcock’s films are recognised for their thrilling plots revolving around violence, murder and crime. His distinctive directorial style was a result of the unmistakeable presence of psychological suspense. Over the course of his career which spanned over six decades, Hitchcock has directed more than 50 feature

INTRODUCTION: “Violence...Sex...Art” (Krämer 2005) was used to aptly describe the American New Wave Movement in cinema. On screen nudity, explicit violence, coarse language, and subject matter that were once taboo shocked audiences and became a prominent feature in the films of the movement. With the collapse of the studio system, which controlled Hollywood since 1910 (Thompson, Bordwell 2010), the time came for new filmmakers educated in their craft to take hold of the American film industry and

in class, it peaked my interest to further understand the characters, in particular, Norman Bates character. In the film Psycho, the recurring theme is a more psychological and can be demonstrated throughout the film but in particular, the parlor scene and the end scene at the jail. One of the most revealing moments of the psychological aspect of horror in this film is the scene which includes Norman Bates and Marion Crane sharing dinner in his office parlor. On the surface, it’s a dialogue between

The Movie Corpse Bride the audience knows its Tim Burtons work. The story is about when Victor (played by Johnny Depp) was going to marry Victoria (played by Emily Watson) but Victor didn’t know what to do and say when they were getting married. The wedding was off until he knew what to say. Right after he didn’t know what to say, he went to a graveyard to practice his proposal. He practiced and he put the ring on a stick. The stick came alive and a skeleton called Emily (played by Helena Carter)

is, so Lila searches the house. The “Turning Point” would be when Lila finds the corpse of the dead mother and gets Norman arrested. When Norman is apprehended by the police the “mother” personality takes over, which leads to the downfall of Norman Bates, also known as the “Catastrophe”. The cops received information about all the murders Norman has committed from the “mother” and ultimately put Norman in jail or an asylum. This would be the “Aftermath” and “Atonement”, respectively. Now the final

young man named Norman Bates, and he was living with his invalid mother in an old house next to the motel. It is not revealed that Norman's mother is invalid until Lila(Marion's sister) and Sam(Marion's boyfriend) decides to go to the motel in search of Marion. Lila and Sam initially hired a private detective to search Marion, but unfortunately, the detective also got killed in the motel when he found out that

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American Psycho (2000) is a film by Mary Harron that stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker that strives to keep up appearances for the sake of success while having murderous tendencies. Bateman, the protagonist, represents American society to the extreme as a selfish and greedy consumerist who will stop at nothing and nobody to get exactly what he wants. The movie follows his egocentric life as he tries to portray perfection through his various accoutrements will while

characters, particularly with the double-sided Norman Bates. Sound and visual techniques were also depicted quite well. Murder and schizophrenia were vividly interpreted in the movie "Psycho" through the use of characters. The character of Norman Bates was the central character in the film and had a complex and differing personality. One moment he was shy, kind, lonely Norman Bates, a mother's boy, and the next he was a deadly jealous Mrs. Bates, his deceased mother. This change of personalities