Hitchcock made the audience think that it is all about $40,000 which was stollen. When the murder happened it was a shock to the audience because it wasn't expected. What the shock did was make the audience apprehensive for the rest of the movie. This meant anything could of happened, anyone could be killed.
The audience knew that there was a murder somewhere in the house. They just didn't know when the murder was going to strike again. But to make it more suspenseful they must know it could happen any moment.
Hitchcock stressed that the more that the apprehensiveness increased, that there is less and less violence on screen.
The scene I will be analyzing is the shower scene. The reason for this is because it shows the audience the thriller is characterized by fast pacing and frequent action. In this scene we see the murder happen. Back in the 1960s people would say that it was the most violent and bloody scene ever, with the stabbing, and the film industry said to Hitchcock that he cant have that be shown. What Hitchcock did was make it look brutes, when in fact of the good use of fast pace editing we didn't actually see anyone getting stabbed. All we did was see the knife move with the music which was being used and also the people who then saw the movie used the imagination to fill in the gaps that wasn't shown. This is why people thought it was a very brutal scene when in fact we don't actually see any stabbing.
Red herrings were used in this, the reason for this is because as the audience we thought the film was going to be about the $40,000 which was stolen, but in fact the film was about a guy that dressed up as his dead mother and think he is the mother, then kill people.
The film was successful from Hitchcock, that other directors decided to make a part 2 and a part 3 of Psycho. In the other Psychos Norman Bates is on the front cover of all of them because he was in the first one.
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