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“A boy’s best friend is his mother” - Norman Bates. Today’s monster model is none other than Psycho killer Norman Bates 🔪💦. Queer actor Anthony Perkins brought this terrifyingly tragic character to life in 1960. This Psycho is stalking the runway in @margarethowellltd dress pants, pullover, dress shirt, tie , coat and sneakers. Pieces from @margarethowellltd 2017 menswear collection. #monstermodel #monstermodels #psycho #psychokiller #normanbates #batesmotel #normabates #janetleigh #horrormovies #slasherfilms #margarethowell #margarethowellss17 #fashionillustration #fashionillustrator #mensfashion #menswear #fashionart #halloween #happyhallowen #halloween2017 #fashionweek #queerartist #queeractors #queerillustration #queerillustration #fashionweek2017 #digitalart #inktober #christiancimoroni #freddiehighmore
Classic Hollywood movies have a special charm for me. The acting, the actors, and the craftsmanship are simply from another world. After recently watching Vertigo again, I started looking for more material. I found these in Darmstadt (Shop: Come Back).
What I definitely want to take a closer look at are the old detective movies, where, in a slightly clichéd way, a private detective is hired by a beautiful woman and his life changes abruptly as he gets pulled into a whirlwind of wild events. It's a somewhat distorted idea, but I know that several such films exist, especially in the noir-crime genre. As a child, I watched these kinds of films often, but of course, I didn't note down the actors' names or even the titles because I was simply too fascinated.
Sometimes I wish films would still fascinate me like that today, but they just don't. Movie theaters have become places for mass processing of viewers, lacking charm and spirit. Going to the cinema has lost its sense of adventure for me and has become a triviality, which of course is also due to the films that just don't evoke the same excitement anymore.
Here's a WIP based on Psycho by Muse (It is not finished yet, this is just the concept for it)
silhouettes in horror
psycho (1960) the exorcist (1973) jaws (1975) halloween (1978) the fog (1980) the shining (1980) a nightmare on elm street (1984) bram stoker’s dracula (1992) i know what you did last summer (1997) lights out (2016)
31 Favorite Horror Movies
#3. Psycho (1960)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Quotes
It’s not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you? - Norman Bates
Oh, I don’t know. I guess I’m looking for a private island someplace where I can be alone and no one can find me. - Marion Crane
Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates… who’s that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery? - Sheriff Al Chambers
We’re always quickest to doubt people who have a reputation for being honest. - Milton Arbogast
Like I said… the mother… Now to understand it the way I understood it, hearing it from the mother… that is, from the mother half of Norman’s mind… you have to go back ten years, to the time when Norman murdered his mother and her lover. Now he was already dangerously disturbed, had been ever since his father died. His mother was a clinging, demanding woman, and for years the two of them lived as if there was no one else in the world. Then she met a man… and it seemed to Norman that she ‘threw him over’ for this man. Now that pushed him over the line and he killed ‘em both. Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all… most unbearable to the son who commits it. So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind. He stole her corpse. A weighted coffin was buried. He hid the body in the fruit cellar. Even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep. And that still wasn’t enough. She was there! But she was a corpse. So he began to think and speak for her, give her half his time, so to speak. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. At other times, the mother half took over completely. Now he was never all Norman, but he was often only mother. And because he was so pathologically jealous of her, he assumed that she was jealous of him. Therefore, if he felt a strong attraction to any other woman, the mother side of him would go wild. When he met your sister, he was touched by her… aroused by her. He wanted her. That set off the 'jealous mother’ and 'mother killed the girl’! Now after the murder, Norman returned as if from a deep sleep. And like a dutiful son, covered up all traces of the crime he was convinced his mother had committed! - Dr. Fred Richmond
It’s sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn’t allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They’ll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man… as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can’t move a finger, and I won’t. I’ll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do… suspect me. They’re probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching… they’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly. - Norma Bates
Trivia
First American film ever to show a toilet flushing on screen.
Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because Hitchcock had made “that disgusting movie, 'Psycho’.”
Every theater that showed the film had a cardboard cut-out installed in the lobby of Alfred Hitchcock pointing to his wristwatch with a note from the director saying “The manager of this theatre has been instructed at the risk of his life, not to admit to the theatre any persons after the picture starts. Any spurious attempts to enter by side doors, fire escapes or ventilating shafts will be met by force. The entire objective of this extraordinary policy, of course, is to help you enjoy PSYCHO more. Alfred Hitchcock”
Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for only US$9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to keep the ending a secret.
When the cast and crew began work on the first day they had to raise their right hands and promise not to divulge one word of the story. Alfred Hitchcock also withheld the ending part of the script from his cast until he needed to shoot it.
When Norman discovers the body of Marion Crane, he shouts “Mother! Oh God! God! Blood! Blood!”. Alfred Hitchcock had the bass frequencies removed from Anthony Perkins’ voice to make him sound more like a frightened teenager.
The reason Hitchcock cameos so early in the film was because he knew people would be looking out for him, and he didn’t want to divert their attention away from the plot.
The highest grossing film of Hitchcock’s career.
According to Janet Leigh, wardrobe worn by her character Marion Crane was not custom made for her, but rather purchased “off the rack” from ordinary clothing stores. Alfred Hitchcock wanted women viewers to identify with the character by having her wear clothes that an ordinary secretary could afford, and thus add to the mystique of realism.
After the film’s release Alfred Hitchcock received an angry letter from the father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Diabolique (1955) and now refused to shower after seeing this film. Hitchcock sent a note back simply saying, “Send her to the dry cleaners.”
The novel upon which the film is based was inspired by the true story of Ed Gein, a serial killer who was also the inspiration for Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Too much studying tonight 😝 going crazy 😫... For being psychologically and physically anchored and focused, you need a stable routine. A regular rhythm in your life. Even if it is super stressful. It is essential. . . . #psychology #fitness #mind #body #anchor #wisdom #psycho #eyes #beauty #malemodel #gaymodel #emotionalbalance #emotion #attractive #guy #sexy #model #male #skin #body #face #hair #selfie #love #fashion #style (presso FRIBOURG REGION)
Too much studying tonight 😝 going crazy 😫... For being psychologically and physically anchored and focused, you need a stable routine. A regular rhythm in your life. Even if it is super stressful. It is essential. . . . #psychology #fitness #mind #body #anchor #wisdom #psycho #eyes #beauty #malemodel #gaymodel #emotionalbalance #emotion #attractive #guy #sexy #model #male #skin #body #face #hair #selfie #love #fashion #style
Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) is notable for a number of reasons, one of these is the first use of the “man gone wrong” antagonist. Although this is a common and popular narrative device in many modern Horror films, such as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho and Michael Myers in Halloween, at the time Norman Bates was a revolutionary character as he would change the role of antagonists forever. Norman’s name was chosen simply because it would close to the word “Normal”.
Hitchcock was obsessed with the idea of verisimilitude throughout the filming of Psycho, he used television actors from his series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” rather than high profile actresses and actors, as he had done in films such as Vertigo (1958) and Rear Window (1954). The audience is encouraged to identify with Norman as soon as Marion leaves the narrative, the spectator follows Norman cleaning the mess and film critic Zizek argues that we identify with this as he undertakes cleaning jobs like the spectator.
Hitchcock’s innovation with the “man gone wrong” antagonist has changed horror films and furthermore, highlighted the horror of true life. Part of the attraction in horror films is that fact that, most of the time, the antagonist is caught and the spectator revels in the idea that the protagonists are safe. However, in real life this is rarely the case, numerous murderers and criminals are not caught and this was what the man gone wrong antagonist proves- it points out that serial killers/murderers/general criminals look like the everyman and we are living amongst them, just as Marion lived next door to Norman Bates.
One of Hitchcock’s repeatedly used narrative techniques was the concept of libido ripping it’s way through to reality, this is seen in Vertigo (1958) and The Birds (1963). However, Psycho (1960) provides a different narrative technique.
Psycho can be read as a film solely about the repression of our true desires and how horrific the release of our “Id” can be. Norman Bates acts as the embodiment of the classic Hitchcockian film whereas, Norma Bates acts as the films repressive figure. The ambiguity regarding Norman’s identity towards the end of the film further proves this, if only Norma exists than the only thing we can truly do is repress our desires as society rejects the freedom of our Id. Norma’s final actions prove this as she states, “I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching… they’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…”. This highlights how important repressing actions is to her character.
Whilst The Birds find it’s narrative progression through the freeing of our desires, Psycho (and definitely, Vertigo) highlights the horror of male desire and how the world cannot exist along with desire becoming reality.
Psy·chot·ic
sīˈkädik/
adjective
[of, denoting, or suffering from a psychosis]
Di·sg·ust
disˈɡəst/
[a feeling of revulsion or profound disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive]