The bathroom killing scene has 78 camera positions and 52 cuts in about 45 seconds
Benchmark ("Bathroom Murder", 1955)
("The Banquet" and "Spicy" director: Kalyn Kusama) I think it is the first presentation of the attack on the female body in modern times, and in some respects it is also the purest presentation
(The Last Movie Director: Peter Bogdanovic) Women were on the scene in the 1930s and 1920s, then slowly declined in the 1940s, and by the end of the 1950s, women became an accessory in movies
The sudden violence in the shower scene in "Psycho" has deep meaning to him. The reason can be traced back to 20 years ago. The source of World War II, Hitchcock believes that Britain and the United States are not ready to face the sinister nature of World War II. , he often conveys this message through films
(Lifeboat, 1944) We not only let the Nazis row for us, they think for us
"Breakthrough" came out a year and a half after Pearl Harbor, and he was basically saying, "America, you're so naive that you think you're safe in the shower at home and with your dear family. Together? Wrong, you're not safe, sorry"
"Birds" conveys the impermanence of life, no one can explain why the birds attack, he thinks this is life, everything is fine, suddenly someone has cancer and dies after two weeks, or you were fine and then Suddenly hit by a bus
Hitchcock has been on people's TV on Sunday nights for years, he's like a creepy uncle who brings sex and violence to America and incorporates dark humor, every Sunday night, in the 1960s Americans can accept
Launched at a very unique moment in American popular culture, Psycho almost foresaw the racial violence of the 1960s, the chaos, shock, trauma, and political assassination it brought
When Psycho came out, we were in a post-atom era, but the civil rights movement wasn't there yet
If you think about the violence in horror movies, it's all science experiments that go wrong, but you don't think it's going to happen to you, Psycho puts you there, it's the first movie in history that makes you When found naked in a shower alone, you can be attacked, and someone wearing the clothes of your deceased mother will rush in and kill you. Because that's what they're going to do, Americans are obsessed with family life, and they tell themselves wishful thinking that in the privacy of their home, at least they can feel safe, there's absolutely no way the Soviet Union or anyone else can Days after filming began, the Clutter family of Kansas was murdered.
You don't live next door to the Norman Rockwells anymore, you live next door to the Mansons, the new modern American family.
The first Playboy Club opens in Chicago.
The most well-known sitcom star of the 1950s, Lucille Boe, divorced Ricky Ricardo.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.
You can think of the shower scene as a buildup of stress, Americans have a fear of the quiet 1950s, everything will explode, and you can see through this scene
Compared to today, people often... often come and go in the cinema
(Jenna Lee's daughter: Jamie Lee Curtis) I'm not sure if anyone has made such a scene, maybe an unknown Czech movie set a precedent (the early Czech movies are really big brains)
'Suzanne and the Old Man' Alludes to Voyeurism, Adultery
Melon and tendon mix
The confrontation with the electric inspection Hays Code, Hitchcock's segmental kiss in "notorious", in the ending of "North by Northwest", the hero and the girl kiss on the train bed, and then the train enters the hole
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