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Film directors don't always deliver when they make music videos. Gus Van Sant's goofily dark vision of Hanson's Weird was interesting, and Martin Scorsese's story line for Michael Jackson's Bad was pretty good, but Brian De Palma's Dancing in the Dark was kind of silly, and Abel Ferrara's upcoming effort for the Phoids looks like an overly earnest drug documentary. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) has beaten them all with this black-and-white, slow-motion interpretation of Apple's dreamy Beatles cover from the Pleasantville sound track. While a makeup-free Apple...
...Sant has wanted to redo the film for nearly a decade. "Psycho is like an existential play," he says. "It's very simple, done on a very simple budget, and that was part of it--to make a simple film." But Universal Pictures, which held the rights, always laughed him off. Good Will Hunting's grosses and the clout of producer Brian Grazer (Liar Liar and Apollo 13) helped bring the studio around...
...hardware-store scene a Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this was a film that needed beefing up," he says. "The subtleties are its strengths...
...actor. "There were some things I did as a tribute to Anthony," says Vaughn, whose larger frame gives him some physical distance from the gaunt Perkins. "I liked what he did with stuttering and body language, but I didn't mimic him completely. It would have been insulting." Van Sant says he chose Vaughn for his ordinary yet edgy demeanor--"that ability to snap...
...soon to tell if cinema traditionalists will snap as well. Perhaps they'll find some solace in the nod to the usual cameo appearance that Hitchcock made in his films. But perhaps not. This time, thanks to the wonders of movie magic, he's glimpsed chatting with Van Sant...