Word: normans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might have fooled me, but she didn't fool mother. -Norman Bates...
...starring Norman Bates and Janet...
...opening scene until the end (with one notable exception)--something that no one, Hitchcock included, has been able to do before or since. This feat is accomplished by multiple layers of suspense via different plot structures, For the first half hour of the film we do not even meet Norman Bates or his mother: the plot concerns a woman, Marion Crane, who steals forty thousand dollars from her boss and hits the road. She is understandably possessed by rears of being found out; as she drives, she imagines the reactions of her boss, her sister and her co-worker...
...this story--in particular, one final twist--are so shocking and bewildering that Hitchcock felt the need to include a scene with a shrink to explain it all at the end. This is the one scene where the suspense, held so masterfully up until this point (and afterwards in Norman's final soliloquy), breaks. Some silly guy swings his finger around and ties it all up nicely for us. But keep in mind that most thrillers--even Hitchcock films--have numerous scenes that merely establish the context for suspense to come, while "Psycho' manages to build suspense with suspense itself...
...Soccer, lacrosse and classics embryo--so, so NB!" one member wrote of Norman Wingate Boyd...