Among the thrillers, the films directed by Hitchcock are the most famous, and "The Psycho" is a typical example. The film "Psychopath" tells the story of a schizophrenic psychopath who murdered a psychopath, and finally the truth of the case is revealed. This is a very simple story. It can happen in the United States or Japan, it can happen in the past, or it can happen. It happened in the future, but why Hitchcock made this film so fascinating, the success lies in his plot setting. The most important thing for a movie is to attract the audience, and for suspense movies, this is even more unquestionable. The protagonist of a thriller is in danger, and the suspense audience in the film is worried about the life and death of the protagonist. Thriller films create suspense by conveying danger to the audience through audiovisual language. The protagonist of a thriller is usually an ordinary person. Under normal circumstances or for some reason, he finds himself in an ordinary environment that the audience looks at and the protagonist doesn't seem to agree with, and then falls into a situation where he is suddenly persecuted, murdered, etc. The source of threats in thrillers is often ambiguous, because only persecution and threats from unknown sources will frighten the audience, because they fall into such situations under unknown circumstances, which will also make Audiences are more curious about the development of the film. The heroine of "The Psycho" is exactly the type hero of the thriller genre, and we follow her to the disturbing little hotel, where we chat with Norman with her, and the plot during this period of time. The development is very ordinary, and it seems to be calm, but the more this happens, the more the audience's heart will be hooked, and they will feel more and more uneasy. With the development of the plot, the heroine is finally killed in the bathroom, and this place is also unexpected. In general, the bathroom is a relatively safe environment that people usually think of, and it is also an environment of absolute privacy. When people are in the bathroom, they will be in an unsuspecting and revealing environment. , because everyone thinks it is a fairly safe environment, but in such a fairly safe environment, the protagonist is suddenly brutally killed, which is quite stimulating to the audience, but at the same time it also achieves a thrilling effect, Excellent expression of the characteristics of the thriller.
Here I would like to mention the characteristics of director Hitchcock's works. Director Hitchcock is very good at using suspense, and while using suspense, Hitchcock is particularly good at using people's split personality and psychological pressure. Chikoke makes extensive use of montage narrative techniques. The plot of the bathroom murder in "The Psycho" has long become a classic scene in film history, and has been called a model of parallel montage shooting by later generations. There is no shot of the knife being inserted into the human body, but through the method of montage, at that time, the audience was still frightened and brought a naked horror to the audience. 45 seconds, 78 shots of knives, human bodies, nozzles, curtains, and drainage holes, repeatedly switching quickly between the murderer and the murdered, the knives stabbing the murdered person in different postures, plus the nozzle in the nozzle. The water flow and the curtain, the switching between the drainage holes, produced a thrilling effect that the director longed for. As Hitchcock thought: "It is not the disgusting ways to die that are the most tense, but the atmosphere that brews before death."
Among Hitchcock's numerous films, we can analyze the main features and formal elements of the thriller genre. On a narrative level, the film builds a plot frame around a protagonist in peril, who appears to be accidentally involved in a series of cases as an innocent victim or a forced criminal fugitive. As the plot develops, it can be discovered that the protagonist's hidden past affects the nature of real events. Unexplained threats and unmotivated criminal operations abound in a dangerous continuum of fatalities. From these aspects, it is not difficult to see that horror movies are more complex in narrative form than other types of movies. This has very strict requirements for the script. Because a suspense movie has to attract the attention of the audience at all times, the twists and turns of the plot are very important. The word "twist and twist" sounds easy, but how to implement it? When Hitchcock explained what suspense was, he gave an example: three people were sitting in a chair chatting, and there was a time bomb under the chair, which exploded after 5 minutes. How to shoot this story? Hitchcock's method is: first tell the audience that there is a bomb, then shoot three people sitting in chairs chatting, chatting for three minutes, one person says let's go, the audience will be better at this time, but the other two disagree We are going to chat for a while, and after another minute, two people say they want to leave, the audience said in their hearts, let’s go, the third person said to wait for a while, and the remaining minute will attract the audience regardless of whether the bomb explodes or not. attention, this way of shooting can be done in twists and turns.
In the thriller and suspense genre, the rendering of the thrilling atmosphere is also very important. At the beginning of the film "Psycho", there is a big vision of Phoenix, explaining the environment where the story takes place and subtitles: Friday, December 11, 2 pm 43 hours. Emphasize that the heroine and her boyfriend sacrificed their lunch time to come to the hotel for a tryst, and we'll know right away that they came here because they didn't have the money to get married. This paved the way for the heroine to carry four sets of huge sums of money later.
The camera zooms in and out, and finally falls on a hotel window. This kind of opening method is commonly used in Hollywood movies. First, the big scene is used to explain the environment of the place where the story takes place, and then it is pushed into small scenes, or small scenes are cut until the camera is aimed at the main characters. The difference in this film is that director Hitchcock let the camera advance directly from the window, so the audience became a voyeur lying on the window.
Hitchcock's thriller and suspense genre films have had a undeniable influence on this genre of movies. At the same time, "Psycho" not only played a laying role in genre movies, but also brought other genre movies that were derived later. Inspiration and inspiration!
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