Coming up with a plot

So over the holidays I have seen a variety of different Hitchcock films:
Here is my list
Strangers on a train
The birds
Psycho
Vertigo
Rear window
The man who knew too much
Frenzy
suspicion

Ive noticed some similar reoccurring sort of characters and motifs in all the films that i Feel will help me come up with my own story. Hitchcock's storylines are deeply rooted in the Psyche and the psychological nature of the human mind and they are often full of crazies, betrayals and double crosses, there are also clever techniques such as the mcguffin used throughout his films and someone who seems to find the concept of murder funny, the bad can be punished in this film

Strangers on a train
- The film starts off fairly normally with the two characters of Guy and Bruno sitting on the train chatting.
- Guy seems pretty standoffish and stressed out and I suppose Bruno is meant to be charming but he honestly comes across as a little lonely and creepy, maybe he is meant to be interpreted differently by different people.
- The thing is they both seem like normal people
- The theme of murder comes in almost immediately with the mention of Guy's wife: Miriam and Bruno's father
- One of Hitchcock's themes "perfect crimes" comes in here as Bruno mentions the idea of exchanging murder and thus murder is mentioned and on the cards
- the idea of the psycho and the disturbed human psyche comes in with Bruno being revealed to be a bit of a crazy stalking down Miriam at an amusement park and strangling her.
- His crazy nature is also revealed when he becomes almost obsessed with Guy fulfilling his side of the deal, he gets to know Guy's new fiancee Anne and her sister Barbara who looks a lot like Miriam
- There is a guest at the party who finds the idea of murder amusing which is another Hitchcock theme
- A hard moment for Guy is when he is forced to confess what is going on to Anne
- Brunos is furious and thinks Guy has betrayed him and as a result he will try to Frame guy for Miriam's murder, he has really thought everything through. It is why he stole his lighter.
- Guy ends up dead thanks to his crazy ways, it seems the bad are punished

Psycho
- Marion is a character we grow to feel sympathy foreign this film. She really needs money and the man giving his money to the bank is just so into himself and so clearly spoiling his daughter you don't wish anything less for him than to have his money stolen right out from under him.
- You can see through Marion's facial expressions her own conflict at stealing the money and whether she is really going to do it.
- I honestly felt sorry for Norman throughout the whole film as he obviously had some serious issues and was absolutely deranged yet he was such a loveable character in the way he was so kind hearted and friendly and had this small stutter. He was also attractive which is not typical of a psycho killer. This is Hitchcock's genius exploration of the Human Psyche
- Marion is about to come clean and take the money back when she is brutally murdered which makes them mores o effected by her death.
- the fact that Norman is the way he is makes him seem very un guilty.
- He is absolutely insane in the way he becomes the mother and kills everyone in his way of exposing him for what he is.
- The fact he kept his mothers body and took on part of her personality when she dies just shows how truly psycho he really was.

Vertigo
- Some people regard this as Hitchcock's best film and there is just so much murder, betrayal and perfect crimes throughout this film. It is a Hitchcock master piece.
- The film opens with an exploration of Scotties Psyche, when he visits his ex fiancee and explains how  roof top chase resulting in the death of a police man has caused his severe fear of heights and therefore vertigo.
- This therefore explores the consequences of a traumatic experience.
- Midge tells Scottie he may need another psychological shock in order to reverse his Vertigo.
- Scotties acquaintance Gavin expresses that he fears that his wife Madeline may be possessed by Calotta Valdes, who was her great grandmother who committed suicide
- This here explores more of the psyche, the idea of possession from an external source or the own human min, being either disturbed or working to achieve a perfect crime
- The idea of disturbances in the psyche is again brought up when Madeline jumps into the water near the golden gate bridge and is rescued by Scottie and the next day when, despite confessing his love for Madeline, can barely bring himself to run up the church steps to save Madeline from suicide due to his intense fear of heights.
- After "Madelines" death you can clearly see the inner workings of Scotties Psyche begin to unravel as he becomes clinically depressed and frequents the places Madeline visited imagining he is seeing her.