Making notes on Hitchcock and psycho

- Already in the opening you can see that the film is set in a big urban jungle
- Beautiful female protagonist
- The man Marion is with is in a conflicting situation, he is having to pay off lots of debt
- marion wants to marry him but they would be so poor if she did
- Marion keeps getting herself into further twisted situations
- There are many suspenseful shots of Marion trying to decide whether or not to steal the money or leave it
- Eventually she does ooh
- Long shot of Marion to try to create suspense
- Long (as in time) shots of her in the car, the police car in the review mirror and the road to create a sense of suspense and show that she is doing something very illegal
- Music also emphasis this
- Long shot of Marion in her car while voice over of people discussing what she did and what went on occurs
- Normans character, straight away seems really weird and unusual
- His mother doesn't like women who are not virginal, in fact she straight up hates them and finds them disgusting
- Norman is so weird, talking about taxidermy although he seems like a nice guy and is nice to marion
- Long shots between characters which creates tension
- God I don't think Norman blinks at all in this scene
- Dramatic long shots of Marion in her shower
- Dramatic shots of of Normans shadow creeping up behind
- Long dramatic pan out of her eye as she lies on the floor then pan around room
- classic music screech of violins
- Norman is terrified long shots of him pacing fidgety around the room
- Long scene of norman cleaning the bathroom as if nothing happened
- Normans behaviour is very suspicious --> kinda goes with Hitchcock's psychological characters
- He just dumps marion in his trunk and cleans up the bathroom as if nothing happened
- I don't know why but you can't help but feel sorry for Norman he is a sick, sick guy
- I wonder if Hitchcock's intentions were for us to feel sorry for Norman to some degree