Actually the idea of multiple personality was very popular in Psychology at the time. Three years earlier, Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for playing a woman with three personalities in "The Three Faces of Eve."
Thanks to Liam and Ioana! 🚿 Please, please, please react to PSYCHO II (1983), as well. It's so good and very few reacters get around to it. I'm glad you mentioned it!
I've always felt Psycho is an absolute masterpiece. Historically it completely changed the direction of filmmaking like Citizen Kane did in 1941. It's what film theorists call modernist filmmaking in which there are no actual heroes in the classic sense and where everything is placed in the audience's lap to dissect and interpret what they see. But besides that sort of academic stuff, the film is so visually thematic throughout the way Hitchcock uses vertical and horizontal imagery and disrupts them with diagonals to emphasize the theme of genuine psychological madness and yet it's very subtle until WHAM!
Great reaction! The most spiteful snub in the history of movies was Anthony Perkins NOT getting an Oscar nomination for Best Actor (you know, killing people in a horror film and all that.) FUN FACT: Paramount Studios hated Hitchcock's guts because they didn't put up a penny for Psycho--Hitchcock financed it himself and, consequently, solely reaped a few million when it was a smash hit.
On top of Perkins being snubbed, the iconic score was snubbed and the editing that is taught in film class to this very day was overlooked. Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director but didn't win, in fact he never won an academy award. I swear the Academy gets it wrong far too often.
That line was clearly a playful dig at how unattractive she looks sitting next to Janet Leigh - wedding ring be dammed, he isn't coming to flirt with you love!
Some useless trivia: Psycho is based on a novel. While Hitchcock pushed the envelope filming the iconic shower scene (which really is filmed to perfection) he never could have recreated it as it's described in the book. Marion's murder was so brutal at the hands of the "mother," that she was nearly decapitated!
Oh my, always loved this movie, ive seen all the psycho movies and this original was my favorite, i even loved the more recent tv series with freddie highmore, it was wicked fun. I never thought about the ending, i think you're both right about explaining split personality. As always, thank you for the video and thoughtful commentary, appreciate the work you put into it
The movie she watched was _Identity_ with John Cusack. Maybe she can show it to you. There was a shot-by-shot remake of _Psycho_ with Anne Heche, directed by Gus Van Sant. He wanted to do it in color, but I think more people watch the original, even now.
This movie shocked people in several ways, including the opening scene of an unmarried couple in a hotel room, obviously after having had sex. And showing a toilet flushing, the first time in cinematic history. And - for the time - such a gory shower scene. But the biggest problem Hitchcock had with censorship was the inclusion of the word "transvestite" in the explanation at the end. The censors thought it meant some underground deviate sex practice. Hitchcock had to show them the dictionary meaning - literally just "cross dressing."
"There wasn't enough blood." EXACTLY. But at the time, it was a gut-wrenching amount. The official censorship at the time (early '30's - 1969) frowned at scenes of gore. In movies back then, a guy would get shot up and all the audience would see were the bullet holes. When they went to make this movie, apparently they had never shown much free-flowing blood and so they had to devise a substance for this. Which was Hershey's chocolate syrup. Even so, the move grossed out audiences. (Hitchcock chose to film it in black-n-white for several reasons. One was that this toned down the visual aspect of seeing "so much" blood in bright red.
A good film to "horror-gross-out" one's female friends -- and which steals the theme music from psycho in it's introduction -- is Re-animator. It's fearsomely horrific!
That's a fun horror movie. Trying to ease her into the genre. She's a bit hesitant with the more gory stuff. Although, given that it's a hybrid of comedy and horror it may give it a better chance than something like Hellraiser.
Robert Bloch wrote Psycho. I have read his short stories in the old Alfred Hitchcock short story anthologies. Did you do Frenzy? That might be my favorite.
The $40,000 that Marion stole in 1960, when adjusted for inflation, is equal to $425,000 today. In 1960 the minimum wage in the US was $1.00 an hour, a new Corvette cost $4,000, and most homes in the US cost under $15,000. It was a HUGE amount of money she stole in 1960, and had she kept the money and never stayed at the Bates motel, she could’ve lived very well for the rest of her life.
Transylvanian Girl looked scared watching! Heehee Great reaction! :) I always eat delicious sandwiches and milk when I watch this movie. And also candy corn! Yummy. :)
@@IrishGuyReacts Yes. Food in films and TV shows always make me hungry; and when I eat the same meal the actors are eating it makes the food more enjoyable. :)
My Darling Transylvanian Irish. Psycho is one of my fav films. it came out in 60 (I was only 8) But I managed to NOT know anything about it until I saw it in the mid 70s (my mid 20s) I was on the edge of my seat (I feared for that cup of tea you were holding) and experienced it as a thriller. over the years as I rewatched it (probably a few hundred times by now). It got funnier and funnier. now I laugh rom start to finish. Do rewatch it. Hugs from Mexico Jim
I think it was either Norman was put in a madhouse for a bit, or perhaps some relative which Norman and mom would go visit. or Mrs Bates herself,... nah they never would have let her out. hehehe it's fun to think about....there is a book, but I've never read it.
Back in the 70s in NYC Pat Hitchcock came to talk to the audience during a showing of ALL of Hitchcock's films. I went to several of the showings to catch up with many films I had yet to see. She was also in Strangers on a Train and several of Hitchcock's TV shows
The reason Marion stole the money was because, at the time, they didnt kill "innocent" characters. She not only stole the money but was a rather "loose woman." The victim deserved it, on some level.
I don't mean to contradict you, but PSYCHO was based on a novel and it follows the story pretty closely (I've read it twice). Marion stole the money to pay off her lovers debt so they can elope.
@@joshuah9109 The novel was published in 1959, so it makes perfect sense. Bloch set it up this way for the same reason. Pay attention to books, movies, TV, before the late 70s -- see how often characters with high moral standards are dispatched. Almost never. Those with looser morals are dropping like flies. See the Hays Code (1934 -- 1968). Halloween (1978) started a new trend. There are exceptions, like in, Night of the Hunter, but even that can be argued.
@@TangentOmega I wasn't aware the novel was written so close to when the film was released, so I totally see what you mean. However, I am aware of the Hays code and how film radically changed shortly after 1968. I saw a theatrical re-release of BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968). Before the film, there was a short discussion on how that film pushed the envelope on sex and violence. In 1969, MIDNIGHT COWBOY became the first (and only) X-Rated film to win best picture. I love the 1956 movie: "The Bad Seed," (about a 8yr old girl whose mother suspects her of murder, in case you're unaware of the movie). I want to avoid spoilers, but the Broadway production had an ending that upset audiences so badly that at the curtain call the mother takes her daughter over her knee and spanks her. It was added to lighten the mood. The original novel also has this controversial ending. But when the movie was made, the Hays code wouldn't allow it, so it was changed. During the movie's end credits, they mimicked the play's curtain call where the mom spanks her daughter. In an interesting bit of trivia (I find it interesting) Hitchcock bought the rights to Psycho from the author for $9,000. He then tried to buy up as many copies as he could to keep the ending a secret.
"She needs ME. It's not as if she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?" "Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough." I highly suggest the next two sequels, but not the fourth one. Fun Fact: This was the highest-grossing movie of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's career. Music Enthusiast Fact: The score is played entirely by stringed instruments. Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann that he doubled the composer's salary. Up Close And Personal Fact: In order to implicate viewers as fellow voyeurs, Sir Alfred Hitchcock used a 50 mm lens on his 35 mm camera. This gives the closest approximation to the human vision. In the scenes where Norman (Anthony Perkins) is spying on Marion (Janet Leigh), this effect is felt. Subtle Visual Cues Fact: In the opening scene, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is wearing a white bra and has a white purse because Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show her as being angelic. After she has taken the money, the following scene has her in a black bra and black purse because now she has done something wrong and evil.
The sequels (and the one prequel) were made-for-TV fair. The fourth one is a prequel and I'm not interested in that one. Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
Actually the idea of multiple personality was very popular in Psychology at the time. Three years earlier, Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for playing a woman with three personalities in "The Three Faces of Eve."
Exactly.That film was also a classic.
I'll have to check out that film at some point.
Thanks to Liam and Ioana! 🚿 Please, please, please react to PSYCHO II (1983), as well. It's so good and very few reacters get around to it. I'm glad you mentioned it!
Definitely have it added to my list. Thanks as always for the support.
@@IrishGuyReacts My pleasure. 😊
I've always felt Psycho is an absolute masterpiece. Historically it completely changed the direction of filmmaking like Citizen Kane did in 1941. It's what film theorists call modernist filmmaking in which there are no actual heroes in the classic sense and where everything is placed in the audience's lap to dissect and interpret what they see. But besides that sort of academic stuff, the film is so visually thematic throughout the way Hitchcock uses vertical and horizontal imagery and disrupts them with diagonals to emphasize the theme of genuine psychological madness and yet it's very subtle until WHAM!
This a and Rear Window Hitchcock's tip top best film for me.
Great reaction! The most spiteful snub in the history of movies was Anthony Perkins NOT getting an Oscar nomination for Best Actor (you know, killing people in a horror film and all that.) FUN FACT: Paramount Studios hated Hitchcock's guts because they didn't put up a penny for Psycho--Hitchcock financed it himself and, consequently, solely reaped a few million when it was a smash hit.
On top of Perkins being snubbed, the iconic score was snubbed and the editing that is taught in film class to this very day was overlooked. Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director but didn't win, in fact he never won an academy award.
I swear the Academy gets it wrong far too often.
He's excellent in this. I really enjoyed hi in the western, "The Tin Star" too.
I like to rewatch movies, especially murder mysteries and stories with twists. It is a whole different level.
It definitely has great re-visit value.
Trivia about the "other" secretary ("I guess he must have noticed my wedding ring"). It's Alfred Hitchcock's real-life daughter (and only child).
That line was clearly a playful dig at how unattractive she looks sitting next to Janet Leigh - wedding ring be dammed, he isn't coming to flirt with you love!
Delightful little bit of trivia. I loved that line!
Some useless trivia:
Psycho is based on a novel.
While Hitchcock pushed the envelope filming the iconic shower scene (which really is filmed to perfection) he never could have recreated it as it's described in the book. Marion's murder was so brutal at the hands of the "mother," that she was nearly decapitated!
Holy crap. I hope to read the novel at some point. Books usually do tend to me graphic
Oh my, always loved this movie, ive seen all the psycho movies and this original was my favorite, i even loved the more recent tv series with freddie highmore, it was wicked fun. I never thought about the ending, i think you're both right about explaining split personality. As always, thank you for the video and thoughtful commentary, appreciate the work you put into it
There was a tv series?
@@IrishGuyReacts yes, few years ago, it's called Bates motel, stars Freddie highmore as a youthful Norman, a prequel to the movies, it's excellent
The movie she watched was _Identity_ with John Cusack. Maybe she can show it to you. There was a shot-by-shot remake of _Psycho_ with Anne Heche, directed by Gus Van Sant. He wanted to do it in color, but I think more people watch the original, even now.
I was still trying to figure out what the film was she was referring to. Thanks for that
@@IrishGuyReacts You're welcome.
It's a book by Robert Bloch. He also wrote a sequel, which was different from the movie sequel.
Bloch's sequel was utter rubbish. Thank god the movie sequel was written by Tom Holland as it is perfection!
I'd love to read the novel at some point
@@IrishGuyReacts :)
This movie shocked people in several ways, including the opening scene of an unmarried couple in a hotel room, obviously after having had sex. And showing a toilet flushing, the first time in cinematic history. And - for the time - such a gory shower scene. But the biggest problem Hitchcock had with censorship was the inclusion of the word "transvestite" in the explanation at the end. The censors thought it meant some underground deviate sex practice. Hitchcock had to show them the dictionary meaning - literally just "cross dressing."
How did I not know that piece of trivia about the toilet flush?
"There wasn't enough blood." EXACTLY. But at the time, it was a gut-wrenching amount. The official censorship at the time (early '30's - 1969) frowned at scenes of gore. In movies back then, a guy would get shot up and all the audience would see were the bullet holes. When they went to make this movie, apparently they had never shown much free-flowing blood and so they had to devise a substance for this. Which was Hershey's chocolate syrup. Even so, the move grossed out audiences. (Hitchcock chose to film it in black-n-white for several reasons. One was that this toned down the visual aspect of seeing "so much" blood in bright red.
I mean just look at all the old Westerns I've watched. Great films most of them but almost no blood most of the time
A good film to "horror-gross-out" one's female friends -- and which steals the theme music from psycho in it's introduction -- is Re-animator. It's fearsomely horrific!
That's a fun horror movie. Trying to ease her into the genre. She's a bit hesitant with the more gory stuff. Although, given that it's a hybrid of comedy and horror it may give it a better chance than something like Hellraiser.
Robert Bloch wrote Psycho. I have read his short stories in the old Alfred Hitchcock short story anthologies. Did you do Frenzy? That might be my favorite.
I have not seen that one. Will add it to the list👍
The $40,000 that Marion stole in 1960, when adjusted for inflation, is equal to $425,000 today. In 1960 the minimum wage in the US was $1.00 an hour, a new Corvette cost $4,000, and most homes in the US cost under $15,000. It was a HUGE amount of money she stole in 1960, and had she kept the money and never stayed at the Bates motel, she could’ve lived very well for the rest of her life.
I wonder would her conscience have got the better of her. Who knows?
Transylvanian Girl looked scared watching! Heehee Great reaction! :)
I always eat delicious sandwiches and milk when I watch this movie. And also candy corn! Yummy. :)
Very fitting. Do you usually have the sandwiches and milk just before that scene where he offres to make some for her?
@@IrishGuyReacts Yes. Food in films and TV shows always make me hungry; and when I eat the same meal the actors are eating it makes the food more enjoyable. :)
My Darling Transylvanian Irish. Psycho is one of my fav films. it came out in 60 (I was only 8) But I managed to NOT know anything about it until I saw it in the mid 70s (my mid 20s) I was on the edge of my seat (I feared for that cup of tea you were holding) and experienced it as a thriller. over the years as I rewatched it (probably a few hundred times by now). It got funnier and funnier. now I laugh rom start to finish. Do rewatch it. Hugs from Mexico Jim
I think it was either Norman was put in a madhouse for a bit, or perhaps some relative which Norman and mom would go visit. or Mrs Bates herself,... nah they never would have let her out. hehehe it's fun to think about....there is a book, but I've never read it.
Back in the 70s in NYC Pat Hitchcock came to talk to the audience during a showing of ALL of Hitchcock's films. I went to several of the showings to catch up with many films I had yet to see. She was also in Strangers on a Train and several of Hitchcock's TV shows
Thanks for the support Jim 👍
The reason Marion stole the money was because, at the time, they didnt kill "innocent" characters. She not only stole the money but was a rather "loose woman." The victim deserved it, on some level.
I don't mean to contradict you, but PSYCHO was based on a novel and it follows the story pretty closely (I've read it twice).
Marion stole the money to pay off her lovers debt so they can elope.
@@joshuah9109 The novel was published in 1959, so it makes perfect sense. Bloch set it up this way for the same reason. Pay attention to books, movies, TV, before the late 70s -- see how often characters with high moral standards are dispatched. Almost never. Those with looser morals are dropping like flies. See the Hays Code (1934 -- 1968). Halloween (1978) started a new trend. There are exceptions, like in, Night of the Hunter, but even that can be argued.
@@TangentOmega
I wasn't aware the novel was written so close to when the film was released, so I totally see what you mean. However, I am aware of the Hays code and how film radically changed shortly after 1968. I saw a theatrical re-release of BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968). Before the film, there was a short discussion on how that film pushed the envelope on sex and violence. In 1969, MIDNIGHT COWBOY became the first (and only) X-Rated film to win best picture.
I love the 1956 movie: "The Bad Seed," (about a 8yr old girl whose mother suspects her of murder, in case you're unaware of the movie). I want to avoid spoilers, but the Broadway production had an ending that upset audiences so badly that at the curtain call the mother takes her daughter over her knee and spanks her. It was added to lighten the mood. The original novel also has this controversial ending. But when the movie was made, the Hays code wouldn't allow it, so it was changed. During the movie's end credits, they mimicked the play's curtain call where the mom spanks her daughter.
In an interesting bit of trivia (I find it interesting) Hitchcock bought the rights to Psycho from the author for $9,000. He then tried to buy up as many copies as he could to keep the ending a secret.
Interesting take. Had never though of that before. It adds layers to the story and her character too
Hello all! Great date movie!🤣 You two are a cute couple. 💐
Thank you kindly. Glad you enjoyed the reaction.
I’d like to recommend another Black and White film, Carnival of Souls. I think you’d get a kick out of it.👍
Never seen that one. Appreciate the suggestion.
Shocking bedroom sex scene in the 1960s? 😁 not exactly.
Shocking shower scene - absolutely.
There is something about bathrooms. I guess you are more vulnerable. The shower scene from the IT miniseries still really creeps me out.
"She needs ME. It's not as if she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?"
"Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough."
I highly suggest the next two sequels, but not the fourth one.
Fun Fact: This was the highest-grossing movie of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's career.
Music Enthusiast Fact: The score is played entirely by stringed instruments. Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann that he doubled the composer's salary.
Up Close And Personal Fact: In order to implicate viewers as fellow voyeurs, Sir Alfred Hitchcock used a 50 mm lens on his 35 mm camera. This gives the closest approximation to the human vision. In the scenes where Norman (Anthony Perkins) is spying on Marion (Janet Leigh), this effect is felt.
Subtle Visual Cues Fact: In the opening scene, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is wearing a white bra and has a white purse because Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show her as being angelic. After she has taken the money, the following scene has her in a black bra and black purse because now she has done something wrong and evil.
There is more than ONE sequel? I love Psycho. How was I not aware of this? I thought there was the one sequel and then a bunch of remakes
The sequels (and the one prequel) were made-for-TV fair. The fourth one is a prequel and I'm not interested in that one.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍