They did not want it to be Pyscho. Rather than scrap the project, as they hoped, a defiant Hitchcock decided instead to simply film the movie using a television crew mostly borrowed from his show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and shoot the entire thing in black and white.
Again, Hitchcock was undeterred and moved production over to Universal Studios. However, after this mini-analysis one profound question for me still remains: would Psycho have been as great of a classic if it had been shot in color? I agree that the black and white adds a lot more to the suspense of the film and was a very conscious choice by Hitchcock. Today, horror movies tend to take advantage of special effects, shock value, and grotesque images to instill fear in the audience.
The lighting and acting both accentuate this fear and make it come alive in the film. In my opinion, black and white works for Psycho! It is quite masterful how the film is able to constantly able to define spaces of duality within the mise-en-scene and narrative — but the lightning is by far the best example.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Artistic Perspective By eliminating color Hitchcock uses black and white to emphasize the contrasts of shadows and lighting. Period Perspective The use of black and white also possibly harkens back to some of the classic first horror movies, such as Nosferatu. Within the world of horror films and films in general it's difficult to think of a movie that is more recognizable and well renowned than the Alfred Hitchcock classic, Psycho.
This movie is such an enduring classic because it's an absolute master class in horror film making, and its twists and turns are still as surprising today as they were in the year that Psycho was made. Alfred Hitchcock is undeniably the most talented and creative horror filmmaker in the annals of film history, and Psycho is without question his magnum opus. However, it took a lot of work to get Psycho to where it is today, and before the film was released many people thought it was going to be a forgettable B-movie that was just another entry into Hitchcock's insanely long resume.
Obviously, it wasn't. And although few movies have been analyzed and pored over as much as Psycho has, there are still details in the movie that are very easy to miss. So here are 10 details that you probably never spotted in Psycho. Psycho is such an effective horror movie masterpiece for a few reasons, but one of the biggest is the mere fact that the movie sets up it's audience with some specific expectations and then completely defies those expectations, making the mysteries and scares even more powerful.
Obviously Janet Leigh as the headlining actress who barely makes it a third of the way through the film was a masterful stroke by Alfred Hitchcock, but he made the movie doubly surprising with Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles as well. Although Anthony Perkins was first billed, he doesn't appear in the movie until almost a half an hour in, while the second-billed Vera Miles doesn't appear until almost an hour in. Although Psycho star Anthony Perkins couldn't be more clearly different from his movie counterpart, Norman Bates, he does have a somewhat unfortunate commonality between this mother obsessed weirdo.
At one point, Norman explains to Marion that his mother has been raising him on her own since he was five years old, after his father tragically passed away.
As a result, Hitchcock started negotiating. His first offer was to make Psycho on a small budget by having it shot in black and white by the crew for his TV show, which would have cost much less than the production for one of his standard movies. However, Paramount Pictures turned this proposal down by claiming that their sound stages were in full use, which was rather unbelievable because the film industry was going through something of a slump at the time.
With that said, it is interesting to note that Hitchcock also made use of black and white because he thought that some of the scenes in Psycho would have been too much for his audience if they had been done in color. This can sound strange because the movie is relatively tame by modern standards, but it should be noted that Psycho kicked off the trend of sex and violence in U.
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