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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Ah, Hitch and Tony. I quite adore this moody picture of the two of them on the set of Psycho.
The more Anthony Perkins movies I see the closer he comes to being my all time favorite film actor. I just love his presence. If you dig Psycho you should check out another odd movie he did in the ‘60s called Pretty Poison co-starring the gorgeous Tuesday Weld. It’s bonkers!
Anyway, Psycho rules and this is another fine picture featuring the great Alfred Hitchcock. Enjoy it, why dontcha?
Thanks to Russell Walks for sending this one along!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic wants to kiss you. Then it wants to kill you.
-Quint
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I seem to remember they also had a "how movies are made tour" that used part of the Psycho set. Or am I remembering that wrong. It happens. We all go a little mad sometimes.
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Army of Darkness?!? Groovy! ??Pseudo?? Out.
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...has decided to make Hitch into a showercap. Unremarkable photo of Hitch himself by his normal standards, but with a memorably creepy look from Perkins.
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July 11, 2011, 2:24 p.m. CST
I remember seeing Pretty Poison once yeeaars ago
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Is that the one where Perkins is kinda messed up, and falls for Weld, who's really messed up? Kind of a weird pre-Badlands twist?
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That's a great photo. Psycho is such a haunting movie.
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And quite innovative for its time.
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July 11, 2011, 2:43 p.m. CST
I PREFER PSYCHO 3 MYSELF!!! SO SLEAZY, SO LURID, SO MACABRE, I LOVE IT!!!
by CreepyThinMan
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You are correct sir. It has since been replaced in Florida by Shrek 3D............the idiots.
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is the only interesting thing in the remake. Years since i've seen the original. When I picture Perkins, it is as the Chaplain in Catch-22, not Bates. Weird.
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That's the one. Awesome movie (I always see it as a double feature with TARGETS).
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Universal Studios, California still has the Bates motel and Psycho House on its Back Lot Tour.
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He really nails Norman's awkward, stuttering nervosity, but also shows a boyish vulnerability that eventually has you rooting for him. Which is interesting as (on repeat viewings of the movie) you know he is in fact Mother and is responsible for the brutal murder of Janet Leigh... yet you don't want him to get caught. Amazing performance! He was great in the sequel too.
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July 11, 2011, 3:14 p.m. CST
Norman stabbed up Jamie Lee's mama pretty good....
by theycallmemrtibbs
sigh...What a waste of a perfectly good White woman.
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he wants to give it to ol' hitch proper in that pic.
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July 11, 2011, 3:19 p.m. CST
Psycho 2 was awesome......Not as great as Psycho of course
by theycallmemrtibbs
That Norman sure can wield a shovel!
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...that's it, no hating, no smart ass comment. Great pic, that's all. Hail to Hitch, The Master.
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July 11, 2011, 3:53 p.m. CST
Quint, if you like Perkins, I hope you've seen Orson Welles' Trial
by FraDolcino
One of my personal faves. Really captures the threatening atmosphere and bleak humor of the book. Perkins plays K. more exasperated than confused, which makes me chuckle as he digs himself deeper. Check it out if you haven't.
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Nowhere as good as the perfection of the original, but as sequels go, they're pretty darn good (except for the whole "she's my mother, she wasn't your mother, I'm your mother, she wasn't your mother either" plot line). They decreased in quality, for sure, but they're all fun. I remember watching the HBO movie Psycho IV with Eliot from ET playing Norman Bates as a kid. I don't recall hating it, but it wasn't particularly memorable, for me. The less said about Gus VanSant's version, the better. One of the finest examples where I liked every player involved in the movie, but hated every single new aspect of the final product (except, possibly, William H. Macy's Aborgast...he was the one character that I actually thought was improved upon from the original version)
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Now, can we please get Vertigo and Rear Window in high-def...?
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if i remember correctly,the director used the exact same frames,angles,compositions from the original movie.he didnt take any kind of artistic liberty with the remake,he shoot the exact same movie with new actors. So why all this hate against the movie? was it because of the actors? i dont think so,since it is generally accepted that they did a fine job in the film. Was it because it was colored? did the color change that much the atmosphere and the content of the film? or the simple reason is that it was a remake or rather a reshoot of an all-time classic movie? i am asking because i want to understand why and how exactly the cinematic language which happens to be almost identical in two movies,is interpreted and accepted in a complete different way.
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...to answer your question Kilik, because it was utterly pointless. The only person who could possibly learn anything from re-shooting a movie 'shot-for-shot' is a student of film, if only to understand why a director or cinematographer chose to do something. Not a new 'take' not a 'reinvention' but a tracing done with crayons.
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than just recreating the shots. I could do a shot for shot remake of Eraserhead and get laughed out of the room. Tonally, Psycho 98 was way off; the performances were bad (for the most part) and i'm not even sure it was a shot-for-shot remake (I definitely don't remember Janet Leigh's brown eye; and I would remember things like that).
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was watching Vince Vaughn embarrass himself. It's a shame more people didn't see it. Laughter like that can stop suicides.
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but a tough sell for younger audiences, I'd imagine, as nothing is shocking these days
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You could hire the best painter in the world to repaint, line for line, stroke for stroke, your ceiling like the sistine chapel - maybe even make it a little brighter and the angels less "puffy" - but people will still prefer the vatican. Some classic movies are so considered because things just lined up perfectly for them - all the perfect players doing the perfect things in the best possible way. And trying to recapture the magic of a classic film by recreating it shot-for-shot just end up showing how many things could have gone wrong.
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Shower scene. Not Perkins in the wig. I believe it was his stand-in. Tony was out of town. Also, and most probably already know these... Hitch used his television crew to film the thing on the fast and cheap. Killing the star of the film in the first half hour was a trick Tobe Hooper stole when he made Scream. Chocolate syrup was the blood in the shower. Anyway, love the film of course--but that epilogue is still fucking horrible to watch. Bad. Bad. Bad. Tribute to the power of the film that it doesn't even come close to ruining the movie.
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