Movie Analysis

Psycho (1960)

Presented By:
Edward George D’souza
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 Introductory Scene

1. Extremely long shot – Pan around

the city

2. Zoom into dark room with blinds

 Cassidy flirting with Marion in the office

1. Daughter never had an unhappy day

2. I buy off unhappiness

3. Sometimes I can keep my mouth shut

 Marion at home

1. Black lingerie

2. Close up shot of money

3. Constant questioning whether she should take the cash

 Encounter with policeman

1. Started look

2. POV used in the beginning

3. Close up angles used

4. Back against police officer - Hiding cash

 Driving away from policeman

1. Suspense music

2. Stressed eyebrows when policeman is following

 Car Showroom

1. Extreme closeups on the license plates

2. Searching through the newspaper

3. Mid shot and over-the-shoulder angle during

conversation with the car salesman

4. Shot with policeman standing in the center

5. All 3 men - Mechanic, Salesman and Policeman

looking together
 On the road

Crazy look with a smile when she thinks that she’s gotten away
 Bates Motel

1. Bates’s house up a hill

2. Only 1 room’s light on

3. Lady appearance walking through the window

4. Chooses cabin-1 after she says that she’s from LA

5. Continued Music
 Norman’s mental state

1. We’re all in our private traps…and none of us

can get out

2. We scratch and claw… only at each other… for

all of it, we only budge an inch

3. I was born in mine (private traps)

4. I do mind it
 Norman’s Mother

1. I want to defy her but I can’t

2. She’s ill

3. When he died, it was a shock for her and the way

he died

4. Too great a loss for her, she had nothing left

5. She’d be alone up there

6. She’s be cold and damp like a grave

7. I don’t hate her. Hate what she’s become.

8. She’s as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.

9. She just goes a little mad sometimes.

10. Clinging and demanding (Last scene)

 Marion’s Murder

1. Dark shadow on white shower curtain

2. Extreme closeup on screaming mouth

3. Dark shadow attacker

4. Drain circling to extreme closeup of eye

 Arbogast at Bates

1. Top shot

2. Door opening with shadow approaching

3. Top view of Mother attacking Arbogast

4. Top view of Norman moving Mother to the basement

 Discovery of Norman’s Mother

1. On a chair with woolen clothes and white hair, hair grey

2. Normal dressed as mother with shadow behind – Duality

The Psychiatrist

Standing while the rest are sitting

 Summary

1. Duality - Fight of good vs evil

2. Corruption by sex and money

3. McGuffin - Money
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