We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes - Psycho (3/12) Movie CLIP (1960) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Norman (Anthony Perkins) debates sending his mother to the "madhouse."

FILM DESCRIPTION:
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next, but while the shower scene is justifiably the film's most famous sequence, there are dozens of memorable bits throughout this film. The first of a handful of sequels followed in 1983, while Gus Van Sant's controversial remake, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, appeared in 1998.

CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1960)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriters: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch

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[zizsaday]

"She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds." It's that kind of subtle foreshadowing you only catch once you rewatch the movie.

[caticia]

I get mad sometimes when i remember anthony perkins DIDN'T get nominated for an oscar.

[ArcaneAzmadi]

For my money, THIS is the most terrifying scene in the movie. Norman is so _intense_ that even though he hasn't done anything bad to Marion yet, she finds herself oddly terrified by him. He is an actual human being giving off serious Uncanny Valley vibes, almost like a robot doing its best impression of a human. Anthony Perkins was brilliant.

[AmericanGraffiti]

How he didn't get nominated and didn't win an Oscar for this absolutely amazes me and pisses me off

[Larettadude]

The smile on his face before saying " Haven't you?"... Oh me oh my!

[Lshannon]

I love that Hitchcock chose Anthony Perkins to be the Psycho. He wasn't like the typical crazy, ugly movie murderer. He's so damn beautiful. It screws with your emotions and perception of what's actually going on. I think that's what makes it so memorable. Just brilliant.

[tarvideos]

The fact that he is talking about himself in this scene is phenomenal acting, especially for the time period. 10/10 film.

[mrbrightside]

Anthony Perkins was perfect for this role. He's handsome in an unremarkable way, shyly charming, disarmingly polite, with a dark side. He almost seems to make Norman Bates a fictional version of Ted Bundy, years before Bundy even existed.

[targrazery]

I love how they killed the main character in the middle of the movie

[stuartwells]

Norman's demeanour suddenly goes from being perfectly calm to filled with suppressed, unsettling, quiet rage in the blink of an eye. RIP Anthony Perkins, you were a fantastic actor.

[vitboi]

I love the instance right before the smile where he kinda gazes off to the side, breaking eye contact with Janet Leigh. You can see him leaving himself- the senility, and him then snapping back to, I guess, reality. Top-notch acting.

[SanDhampir]

holy crap. that moment Norman slowly leans in gives me the creeps.

[SasorisPuppet]

What I really love about Anthony Perkins is he's one of the few people that really makes his character almost too "real" for comfort.  He did such an amazing job, and I really love it all.  What I really love more than anything is the subtle little twitches you can see his face barely make.  It really adds a lot to the character.

[kooj]

“People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues and shake their heads and suggest oh, so very delicately.”

[coolmuso]

Hands down the best acting I've ever seen in a movie. I've watched countless films, but this one goes to another level. Absolutely brilliant! I get the chills every time I watch this...

[haintedhouse]

when he leans forward and says "you mean an institution? a madhouse?" - that would have been my cue to exit.

[GreenGretel]

I love Leigh's "Okaaay, I want to exit this interaction now" expression/tone of voice @ 1:02.

[KypHeM]

such good sharpness of image for 1960.

[barrett]

My favorite scene in the film. Anthony Perkins switches back and forth from harmless to menacing several times within a few minutes so subtly, it's incredible.

[chrisjames]

The way he moves at 0:17 is just brilliantly invasive and frightening. Remains eye contact, no blinking, goes from the outskirts of the frame to filling it and crossing that line between the movie world and the world of the audience.