Does anyone else think that shower scene in Psycho was really hot or am I just f!
Question: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho, for those who haven't seen it, a woman gets murdered in a motel shower.
Answers: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho, for those who haven't seen it, a woman gets murdered in a motel shower.
Well,... Most viewers were pretty terrified by that scene. But I think that the film director A. Hitchcock intended it to be sexy too.
The whole reason Norman Bates slashes her to death, is because he was peeping on her through a hole in the wall & he was turned-on. That triggered his mother alter-ego who didn't like his being attracted to another woman. Hence the killing. The actress in the shower, Janet Leigh, was very sexy to begin with, and she needed to be for the scene to make sense.
Finally, I don't know if you saw it, but if you look carefully at the scene a second before she rips the shower curtain down (I think), you can see her very out-of-focus naked breasts. So clearly Hitchcock wanted it to be sexy.
uhm...
I think the whole scene is lame. I mean its so fakey and the girl just over acts.
It's ok for girls to be f'ed up too! You can
do a shower scene too, but leave out the
butcher's knife ok!
I don't really think its hot. But it is a very cool scene because you never really see the knife cut her. And using chocolate syrup for blood in a black and white movie is just genius.
Na your not f'ed up. Blood in the shower is always hot. blood is hot on naked bodies thats not too f'ed up is it? now you got me wondering...
I think I'm the one f'ed up because I didn't think it was hot in the least.
I don't think it was "hot"
I would say that someone who had that response really should get some counseling. That is a horifying, disturbing scene. How can a person being stabbed to death be "hot"?! *shiver*
I hope you are joking.
I've read Francois Truffaut's interviews of Alfred Hitchcock and do not recall any mention of a sexual aspect to the shower scene. If that was intended, it would have been approached in an entirely different way I'm certain because we've seen Hitchcock direct a wide variety of scenes showing that he had a great understanding of various situations. Look how he handled the scenes with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery in "Marnie"; the flirtation between Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief"; the tenderness between Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in "Spellbound"; and the rape/murder scene in "Frenzy". Thus, if he had wanted "Psycho" sexy, he would have done it unmistakably. After all, some films were starting to push boundaries in the late Fifties and into the Sixties. Hitchcock did "Psycho" in 1960, the same year Michael Powell did "Peeping Tom", which was rather blatant.
it was hot and sexy at the same time ahahha