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...around Jimmy Stewart's embrace of Novak later in the movie. The aerial shot of Cary Grant in the cornfield in North by Northwest - with a road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen - draws on Léon Spilliaert's Le Paquebot ou L'Estran, a painting of alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretching to the tip of the canvas. Add some trees in front of the house in Edward Hopper's Lighthouse Hill, take away the lighthouse, and you have the Bates family's haunted home in Psycho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Fear | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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