Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - Ask Hitchcock to give the film a name.

Ask Hitchcock to give the film a name.

Basic information

China film title

psychotic

English movie names

psychotic

More Chinese titles

psychotic

More foreign movie names

Cowardly ... (America) (fake job title)

Release time

Film genre

Terror/terror

The length of a movie (according to the screening time)

109 min/Germany: 108 min (shearing)

Country/region

United States of America

conversational language

English

Subtitle file

www.ifuzhu.com

colour

(written) in black and white

Match to the original tape

single track

grade

Argentina: 13 Australia: m Finland: K- 16 Norway: 15 Sweden: 15 Britain: 15 Peru: 14 Spain: 13 USA: R.

cost of production

6,947 (estimated)

Property in copyright

Shooting date

1 959165438+1October 30th-1960 February1.

Date of production

1959 65438+ October-1960 February

[Edit this paragraph] Credit

be in charge of/supervisor

Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock

dramatist

Robert Bloch Robert Bloch (novel)

Joseph Stefano (screenplay)

executant

Anthony Perkins anthony perkins Norman Bates

Jeanette lee janet leigh Marion Crane.

Vera miles ... Lellak lane.

John gavin ... Sam loomis

Martin Basan Martin Balsam ... Detective Milton Arbogast.

John McIntire ... Sheriff Al Chambers.

Simon Oakland ... Dr. Fred Richmond.

Vaughn Taylor ... George Lowery

Frank Albertson Frank Albertson ... Tom Cassidy.

Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock ... the man in the cowboy hat (undetermined)

producer

Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock ... Producer (unedited)

[Edit this paragraph] Production and distribution

Shooting format

35 mm

Manufacturing and processing method

spherical

layout

35 mm

Production company

Shamlli Production Company [USA]

Issuing company

Paramount Pictures [USA] (1960) (USA) (Cinema)

Universal Pictures [USA ]...(2006) (USA) (Theater Edition)

Operation Ji Tanes [France ]...( 1999) (France) (reissued)

MCA Universal Home Entertainment MCA/ Universal Home Video [USA] ... (USA) (Laser Disc)

Universal Home Entertainment [USA] ... (USA) (DVD)

Universal Film (Spain) Co., Ltd. [Spain ]...(2003) (Spanish) (DVD)

Release date?

United States of America

1960 June

Austria

1960 10 month

West Germany

1960 10 October 7th

Sweden

1960 65438+1October 3 1 day

Finland

1960 65438+February 2

Poland

1960 65438+February 3 1

Spain

1961April 2

Denmark

196 1 may 1

Greece

196 1 may 1

Spain

19712 August ... (reissued)

Hungary

1March 9, 972

Finland

1981February 27th ... (reissued)

Norway

128 September 990 ... (reissued)

Portugal

1998 may 1 ... (original version)

Britain, England

Britain

1July 3, 9981... (reissued)

Russia

1September 5, 998 ... (reissued)

Switzerland

1999 65438+ 10/0/5 ... (Zurich) (reissued)

France

1999101October 20th ... (reissued)

[Edit this paragraph] Introduction to the plot

Marilyn, a working girl in Phoenix, Arizona, was tired of secretly meeting Sam Lummus during lunch break, because almost all the money he earned was used to pay alimony to his ex-wife and he could not marry her. One day, Marilyn's boss asked her to take 40,000 yuan in cash to the local bank. Because she wanted to change her life so badly, she fled the town on impulse and decided to go back to California with her lover Sam.

When she drove away from the town, it got dark and it began to rain cats and dogs, so she had to drive off the highway. The fatigue of long-distance driving and the pressure of absconding with money almost made her nervous breakdown, so she decided to rest at the Bates motel on the roadside for one night. The owner of the motel is Norman Bates. This eccentric young man loves and fears his mother who is ill in bed. No sooner had Marilyn finished the dinner Norman prepared for her than she went back to her room to take a bath. When she got into the bathtub and pulled up the shower pole, a bizarre and horrible story was about to happen.

In the past 40 years, Hitchcock's Psycho can be said to be the masterpiece of horror thriller. It was the most violent and erotic movie in Hollywood from 65438 to 0960. How many viewers are scared to take a bath alone by the pervert killer and the well-known bathroom killing scene in the film? The film was selected as one of the most important American films in 100 by American film institutions.

[Edit this paragraph] Related comments

Comment in one sentence

A new-completely different-screen is exciting! ! !

No one ... but no one ... will be allowed to enter the theater after each performance of Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock.

You must watch Psycho from the beginning!

Don't reveal the ending-it's our only ending!

The suspense master on the screen moved his lens to the unexplained cold darkness!

Shocking! (released by Australia)

The suspense master moves his camera into the unexplored cold darkness! (Window card)

Explore the darkness of men's subconscious!

It's back! (1965 reissued)

See the version that TV didn't dare to broadcast! (1968 reissued)

media comments

Psychopaths is recognized as Hitchcock's best film, and it is also the most imitated and influential film.

-BBC Film Review

Hitchcock's other films can't be more impactful than this one.

-Chicago Sun Times

Psychopaths are not unique in storytelling wit; Its originality is embodied in the construction of narrative.

-Observe

Wonderful film review

Hitchcock's Psycho is a masterpiece of horror thriller and occupies an extremely important position in the film history. It is known as the first modern horror work in the west, and people will never think of the answer until the last moment. Interestingly, Hitchcock himself was also creating suspense when shooting this film. He asked all the producers to swear to keep the plot and ending of the story strictly confidential and never reveal any details. In addition, he seriously hired the actors of Mother and published a list of several candidates. In fact, there is no "mother" scene in the script. At the time of 1960, this movie was the most violent and erotic movie in Hollywood. How many viewers are scared to take a bath alone by the pervert killer and the well-known bathroom killing scene in the film? The film was selected as one of the most important American films in 100 by American film institutions. Psychopaths can be said to be an unprecedented successful horror film, with bold skills and amazing pictures. Even after decades, the bloody scene of murder still makes the audience tremble with fear. This is the most skillful classic. Never before has a movie about murder and mental illness shocked the audience so strongly.

Psychopaths is Hitchcock's most valuable movie at the box office, so it is the most psychoanalytic movie, which brings naked horror to the audience. Murder in the bathroom, pornography multiplied by violence, the audience's wide eyes are actually peeping eyes. This nude scene, 45 seconds, 78 shots, knife, human body, nozzle, curtain, water hole, quickly switched, the viewer's eyes will not blink. For many movie-goers, the desire and fear of hotel shower must be a kind of fear. If you stay in a black shop like Mary, you may meet a perverted shopkeeper like Norman. Norman is a special schizophrenic. Under normal circumstances, he is a shy shopkeeper, but once abnormal, he is sometimes his murdered mother and sometimes his son controlled by his mother. Why do you part here? Just because of the guilt of murdering his mother, he stole her body and made a specimen, and played his own role to revive her, but the revived "mother" hated him for falling in love with another woman and wanted to kill her quickly. This is really mysterious. A man who lost his father at the age of five lived with his mother. When he grew up, he couldn't stand his mother's other lover, so he killed his mother's lover and then killed his mother. This is really mysterious. No wonder the film was criticized by critics at the beginning of its release. But the audience opens their eyes again and again in front of the screen-this is the real concern. It may be extreme to split the mother-child medical records like Norman, which is the abnormal and pathological expression of the so-called Oedipus complex, but who can guarantee that there is no potential danger of personality division in himself? Norman's black shop is terrible, so are other black shops, but the black of any black shop is only the black of human nature.

[Edit this paragraph] behind-the-scenes production

About movies

Psychopaths is the most representative classic of Hitchcock, a suspense master. This unprecedented successful horror film has bold skills and amazing pictures. Even after decades, the murder and bloody scenes still make the audience tremble with fear.

The mother of modern horror movies was shot at low cost and in a short time. It is adapted from Robert Bloch's novel by Joseph Stefano. Hitchcock skillfully manipulated the audience's emotions with skillful montage skills, thus completing a completely pure film expression. Hitchcock abandoned some well-known routines in previous films and really stimulated the audience completely through vision rather than plot. The scene of "bathroom killing" in the film has become a classic picture in the history of movies. It lasts 48 seconds and consists of 78 rapidly changing shots. Although there is not even a bloody picture of a knife piercing the human body, because of the comprehensive use of montage, scene scheduling, rhythm, lighting, sound and other technologies, its terrorist effect is difficult to see. Hitchcock's request for this scene is: "chop, chop with a knife, the knife is like tearing the screen and rushing out of the movie." This "real horror" left the audience with endless imagination, as Hitchcock thought: "The most stressful thing is not the disgusting way to die, but the atmosphere brewed before death."

be in charge of/supervisor

The name "Hitchcock" is synonymous with suspense and horror, representing the spirit of a film technology; It is this universally recognized master of horror who invented the genre of thriller.

Hitchcock directed and produced 59 films and more than 300 series in his life, most of which took the dark side of human nature such as nervousness, anxiety, voyeurism and fear as narrative themes, and skillfully blended sex appeal, suspense and humor. The ultimate goal of Hitchcock's films is to show the deepest horror and the most abnormal thoughts of human nature. Therefore, unlike modern horror films, Hitchcock's films can be called thrillers. All the horrors exist and happen between people, and there are no disgusting pictures such as twisted bloody rivers, which are completely won by clever plot arrangement and excellent performances of actors.

Hitchcock 1889 was born in London and is an ordinary vegetable wholesaler. 1920 entered the film industry. After working as a subtitle designer, production designer and editor, he directed the first suspense film The Sender in 1926, which established his position in the British film industry. Hitchcock 1934' s The Assassin's House and 1936' s Thirty-nine Steps made him famous internationally. 1940, the first Hollywood work Butterfly Dream won the best Oscar, followed by the spy war drama Foreign Correspondents, the psychological suspense film Cliff and the psychoanalytic film Dr. Edward. 1946, Hitchcock filmed the concluding work "honey trap" in this period.

In 1950s, Hitchcock went hand in hand in terms of artistry and entertainment, and constantly tried photography techniques, resulting in a series of excellent works such as Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Catch the Thief, Charm, North by Northwest and so on. 1960, Hitchcock challenged the new horror and made a film "Psychopaths" with strange theme, unexpected plot and low-cost black and white production, which became a milestone in Hitchcock's film career. At that time, the directors of the French new wave were more or less influenced by Hitchcock, and the masters of the new wave gave him the highest evaluation: he was a movie.

Hitchcock was recognized as one of the greatest film directors of all time. He won the Oscar Special Award with 1968, and the Griffith Award of the American Directors Association in the same year. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the film art, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him a lifetime achievement award of 65438-0979. 1980, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him and died in Los Angeles on April 29th of the same year.

executant

Psychopaths has produced two global stars, a man and a woman, namely Janet Lee and anthony perkins.

Sheng Zai 1927 and 1947 signed contracts with MGM and played some roles of young girls. After marrying Tony Curtis (amorous), she began to play the role of a mature woman in 195 1. Later, due to her outstanding performances in orson welles's The Beauty Thief and Hitchcock's The Psychopath, she was promoted to the first-line actress, especially The Psychopath won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Oscar nomination. From 65438 to 0999, jeanette lee was awarded the highest honor "Commander of Art and Literature" by the French government. Jeanette lee once said that in the classic scene where Hitchcock was killed in the shower, 70 shots were cut from different angles to express her fear before she died, but after watching this scene in the cinema, she felt creepy and never dared to take a shower again. It is reported that Li earned only $25,000 for this film, and he has been taking a bath in this bathtub ever since. In addition, the expression of fear in the film was also rated as the most classic death scene in history by the British film magazine TotalFilm.

Psychopaths also made actor anthony perkins famous and his role Norman Bates a household name. The famous American actor anthony perkins (1932— 1992) was born in new york. He was keen on acting as early as in college. He was once seen by the great director during his performance, and Sui invited him to co-star Persuasion with Dzharir Cooper, a famous movie star who was nominated for six Oscars. Since then, he has played a young man with dual personality in The Psychotic directed by Hitchcock, which has established his position in the film industry and has been riding in the film industry for 30 years. On both sides of the Atlantic, he starred in films such as Lonely Man, Green Mansion, Trial and Battle of Paris.

background music

The soundtrack of this film also contributed a lot, and the sharp strings specially arranged by bernard herrmann for the mentally ill also made an indelible contribution to the tension of the film. In the scene where the bathroom was killed, it seemed that all the knives cut into Maria's body, but in fact, there were no knives at all. Its excellent effect depends entirely on sharp and fast editing and multi-angle lens. In addition, bernard herrmann's soundtrack is the greatest contribution, which is extremely sharp and harsh, and the sharp sound of the violin can almost cut people's flesh and blood. Hitchcock originally intended not to use extra sound effects in this passage, but he changed immediately after listening to Herman's performance.

[Edit this paragraph] Highlights

Hitchcock bought the copyright of this novel under a pseudonym for only $9,000.

After two expensive color films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, Hitchcock led his TV production team to shoot this black-and-white horror film at a very low cost. According to Hitchcock himself, he didn't want the film to look too bloody and violent (the well-known bathroom part). He wanted to see if a low-cost black-and-white film would sell well.

Hitchcock's "Psychopaths" cost only $800,000, and it made a profit150,000 soon after its first release.

Interestingly, Hitchcock himself was creating suspense when shooting this film. He asked all the producers to swear to keep the plot and ending of the story strictly confidential and never reveal any details. In addition, he seriously hired the actors of Mother and published a list of several candidates. In fact, there is no "mother" scene in the script.

The climax of the murder scene in the bathroom is only 45 seconds, but Hitchcock spent almost 7 days shooting, and the lens shifted as many as 60 times.

Li Qianrong recalled that when filming Psychopaths, Hitchcock only experimented on Janet to test whether the corpse in the play was scary enough. Sometimes Li pushes the door into the dressing room after lunch and finds a terrible "zombie" sitting in her chair. Jeanette lee said: "Hitchcock will decide which dummy to use as a corpse according to the degree of fear every time I scream."

Hitchcock paid anthony perkins $40,000, which happened to be the huge sum that Maria stole from the company.

Hitchcock likes blondes. He once said, "Blondes are the best for murder! Imagine how beautiful the bright red blood flowing from her snow-white skin is, lined with shiny blonde hair! " Li Qianrong, who was killed in this movie, was of course blonde.

[Edit this paragraph] Wonderful dialogue

Norman Bates' mother: No! I told you no! I forbid you to bring a young girl to dinner! By candlelight, I think, in a cheap, erotic way, young men's cheap, erotic thoughts!

Norman Bates' mother: "No! I said no! I forbid you to bring a young girl to dinner! In candlelight, I think the immature psychology of young people will only lead to immature pornography! "

Norman Bates: Mom, please!

Norman Bates: Mom, please don't do this ...

Norman Bates' mother: And? After dinner? Music? Whispering?

Norman Bates' mother: "And then what? There is beautiful music after dinner? Love words? "

Norman Bates: Mom, she's just a stranger. She's hungry and it's raining outside!

Norman Bates: Mom, she's just a stranger. She's hungry and it's raining outside! "

Norman Bates' mother: Mom, she's just a stranger! As if men don't want strangers! It seems ... Oh, I refuse to talk about disgusting things because they make me sick! Do you understand, son? Go ahead, tell her that she won't satisfy her ugly appetite with my food ... or my son! Or do I have to tell her because you don't have the courage! Well, boy? Do you have the guts, son?

Norman Bates' mother:' Mom, she's just a stranger! Maybe men don't have any desire for strangers! Maybe ... Oh, I don't want to talk about this disgusting thing anymore. I feel sick! You know what, kid? Go and tell her that my cooking can't arouse her appetite ... Oh, son, or do you want me to tell her myself, because you don't have the guts! What's the matter, son? Do you have the courage, son? "

Norman Bates: Shut up! Shut up!

Norman Bates: "Shut up! Shut up! "

[Edit this paragraph] goof shot

It was raining cats and dogs outside when Norman walked from his room to the hotel office to see Maria. But in the next scene, when he stood in the hotel office, his coat was dry and not a drop of water was touched.

In the scene of Norman carrying Maria's body, Maria's car cover is dry and wet for a while.

Maria tore a bar of soap in the shower and threw the wrapping paper into the bathtub. Norman didn't see the wrapping paper when he cleaned the bathtub.

Maria's purse with money in the company is different from that in the bed at home, although both are white.

Previous article:How many pixels is 3w?
Next article:5d2 photography skills