Do you believe, like the author of the book Bret Easton Ellis, that the movie “didn’t need to be made?” Share your thoughts in the comment section below, along with any other favoriteAmerican Psychoquotes and lines.
Whether it’s a shot-for-shot remake like Gus Van Sant’s notorious “Psycho” redux or a misguided switch up like the execrable 2012 “Total Recall,” many remakes offer nothing of value. These issues are often only magnified when an American director decides to put their own spin on a...
It would be as if, having done away with his heroine 45 minutes into Psycho, Hitchcock failed to provide an explanation and a compensatory story to make up for her absence. The ambiguity in L’Avventura goes up a notch in Blow Up. Antonioni based Blow-Up, his first English-language ...
1. Some recent psychohistorical studies which attempt to capture stages of national fantasy include Lloyd deMause, “Formation of the American Personality Through Psychospeciation” The Journal of Psychohistory 4 (1976): 1-30; Rudolph Binion, Hitler Among the Germans. New York: Elsevier, 1977; L...
drifting swamp of self-indulgence that felt like a never-ending 30 minutes opening credits sequence. It sets up a season which barely advances the overall plot so far and which seems high on its own supply, hitting the same beats – yelling, repetitive flashbacks, emotional breakdowns, kitchen...
critique myself along with everything else I am critiquing from an anthropological perspective. I am by no means above it all, preaching, I am acutely aware that I very much hold and perpetuate many of the Western psychologized and individualistic conceptions of self and emotions that I ...
And finally, as they say, the proof is in the pudding, and there has been a staggering increase in women in North America working behind the camera in production capacities (director, writer) in the horror genre since around 2000: Mary Harron (American Psycho, 2000,The Moth Diaries, 2011)...
American Beauty Review 这篇影评可能有剧透 To be honest,the reason why I chose to watch the film at the first time was just that attractive poster…LOL…I was bored to death surfing the Internet when it struck me by accident.I remembered that I suffered a two-hour experience.It seeems ...
Fallon immediately shoos Psycho off the premises while Billy hides in a corner. At the toy store, where the toy tin soldier and ballerina lie dormant on the shelves, Fallon lectures Billy on the virtue of showing respect for his elders. He encourages the boy to borrow the tin soldier, ...
Or Saturday matinees, before Psycho hit.Indians whooping and chasing stagecoaches;A strong-but-vulnerable woman holding a rifle,Her face streaked with dirt, a white sleeve torn;Or a lone half-naked buck sneaking upBehind a blue-clad soldier to slit his throat—Until the soldier proves the ...