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Fact |
Apparently Janet Leigh has not taken a shower since first watching Psycho, feeling safer in a bath. |
delboy |
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0:00
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Continuity |
Just before Marion enters the shower, she rips up a peice if paper and flushes it down the toilet, and when Norman comes to clean the bathroom up, he puts the toilet lid down (not many blokes do that!)However when Sam and Lila are searching Room 1, the toilet lid is up and all the bits of paper are in tact. Strange seeing as no-one went into the room since Norman killed her. |
rammsteinfreak |
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0:00
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Miscellaneous |
After the cop pulls Marion over, she drives off without starting the engine. |
DanielJ |
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0:00
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Fact |
It was said that Hitchcock never let people in while the film was showing at the cinemas around the world, because he said you have to watch the whole film through to understand what was going on. |
bradlantis |
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0:00
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Continuity |
Vera Miles is actually wearing a wig throughout the entire movie, due to her role in a previous movie called for her to be a Poland catholic at a nazi concentraion camp and she had to shave her head for that role. |
bradlantis |
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0:00
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Fact |
Before production started, Robert Block released the book. Hitchcock had read the book and after liking it as a potential movie, he went to the publishing company and Robert Block himself to buy the rights to the book. He paid them $9,000 and then Hitchcock bought as many copies of the book as he could to leave the ending a secret. |
bradlantis |
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0:04
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Miscellaneous |
Hitchcock always made a cameo appearance in his movies. After the hotel room scene, Janet Lee walked into her work place. The man standing outside with the cowboy hat on is the famous director. Also, Janet's co worker is Pat Hitchcock, Alfreds daughter. |
Julia2 |
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0:07
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Continuity |
When Marion has Mr. Cassidy's deed ready, she walksk over and knocks on Mr. Lowery's office door five times. Watch carefully, for when she knocks the fifth time, her hand is reaching for the door handle. You can still hear her knocking, but her hand is opening the door. |
bradlantis |
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0:08
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Continuity |
In the beginning of the movie (8 mins)you see that Marion's underwear is white. When she undresses to take a shower at the Bates Motel (40 mins)her underwear is black. |
shawn1 |
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0:09
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Visual |
When Marion Crane contemplates stealing the $40,000, she changes her clothes in her apartment. In the TV version watch the edge of the bed as the camera zooms in on the envelope containing the money. Just as the camera nears the bed its shadow is visible on the bed. In the letter-box (widescreen) version this scene is removed. |
jimmy1 |
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0:10
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Continuity |
If you noticed that when Marion was going into the restroom to get her amount of money she needed. You'll see that the door has a doorknob on the right side of the door when she's walking to it and she opens it on the right side but then when we see her walking into the bathroom and seeting her purse on the sink, the doorknob was on the left side and she opened it at the left side. |
bradlantis |
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0:20
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Continuity |
During Marions night flight out of Pheonix, the camera shows he hood of her car as she is driving out of town, the hood of her car is white, but the car she presently has is black |
bradlantis |
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0:23
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Continuity |
In the scene where Janet's character is driving along the road in the rain you see her hair and then it cuts to the road and comes back to her hair and it is totally diferent. |
jimmy1 |
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0:25
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Continuity |
Marions car is the only car in the car lot without mirrors on each side of her car. The new car she trades with her old car has no mirrors either but all the other cars in the lot have mirrors |
bradlantis |
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0:29
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Continuity |
When the car dealer in Los Angeles said that he would take her car into the garage. He then walks over to her car and opens the door. When Marion was pulling into the lot, she shuts her door all the way, but when the dealer walks to the car, her car door is ajar |
bradlantis |
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0:30
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Miscellaneous |
When the state trooper starts to pull off the highway onto the exit ramp, you can see that there is no turn signal hen he gets off the road. It is required that people getting off long and big state roads should use a turn signal. The state trooper just broke on of his laws |
bradlantis |
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0:30
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Continuity |
If you noticed that when Marion was going into the restroom to get her amount of money she needed. You'll see that the door has a doorknob on the right side of the door when she's walking to it and she opens it on the right side but then when we see her walking into the bathroom and seeting her purse on the sink, the doorknob was on the left side and she opened it at the left side. |
bradlantis |
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0:30
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Continuity |
When Marion gives her lisence to the highway patroler, The camera pans down on the plate and the plate says ANL-709, but when she is at the car dealer, she gets her newspaper and walks toward her car with the plate ANL-703. |
bradlantis |
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0:35
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Continuity |
When Marion and Norman are talking after he has brought in some sandwiches, Marion tears the same piece of bread 3 times on different occasions. |
jimmy1 |
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0:41
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Visual |
When Marion first gets ready to get in the shower, the camera is panning back over the bed to show the newspaper with the cash wrapped up in it. As the camera pans back, one can clearly see the camera's shadow on the bed as it pans back. |
freddinage |
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0:44
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Fact |
The blood in the infamous shower scene is actually chocolate syrup. |
jimmy1 |
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0:44
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Fact |
To make Janet Leigh scream really well in the shower scene Hitchock made sure that the water became ice-cold at just the right moment. |
Julia2 |
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0:44
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Continuity |
When Janet Leigh is in the shower her hair is soaked by the water and then when you see her from a different camera angle (23 were used for the shower scene) her hair is bone dry. |
delboy |
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0:44
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Miscellaneous |
In the shower scene you see Mother with the knife and she stabs AT Janet over and over again but the knife never enters the body and there is no blood until the end of the scene. This shows the ability of Hitchcock as a director of suspense. |
shawn1 |
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0:44
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Fact |
The sound of the knife stabbing Marions body is actually the 'behind the scenes' people stabbing a melon!! |
cooljemima123 |
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0:45
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Continuity |
After Marion fell out of the tub, the shower head is washing away the blood and it all goes down the drain, but when Norman is clean the tub, there is blood all over the tub |
bradlantis |
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0:45
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Fact |
Alfred hitchcock had originally planned for the shower scene to be completely silent. When he went away, Bernard Herrmann went ahead and made a score for the shower scene. Alfred then came back and watched the shower scene footage without the statico music and then with the statico music and realized that he had made an honost mistake and accepted the music in the shower scene. |
bradlantis |
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0:45
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Fact |
After Marion Crane has been brutally stabbed, she falls to the floor. Hitchcock then pans from her body to the shower where the blood swirls down the drain. He then superimposes actress Janet Leigh's eye over the drain and slowly pulls back to a wide shot. However, even though Marion Crane is supposed to be dead her eye pupil is normal sized. As any doctor, coronor, or mortician will attest, dead bodies have eyes that have dialated pupils. |
delboy |
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0:45
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Fact |
When the camera pans away from Janet Leighs' body in the bathroom scene, she is supposed to be dead yet you see her swallow a little. |
jimmy1 |
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0:46
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Visual |
After Janet Leigh has fallen down into the tub and she grabs for the shower curtain, look closely past the shower curtain towards the right of the screen. Janet leigh appears to be showing one of her uncovered breasts in that shot. |
bradlantis |
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0:48
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Continuity |
In the shower scene after Marion has been stabbed, she slowly slides down with her back against the shower wall - you can see the blood from her back streaking down the wall and into the tub, but when Norman comes in to clean up, the wall is clean, and the only blood you see is in the tub and on the floor. |
delboy |
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0:50
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Fact |
After Norman kills the woman in the shower he goes outside. If it is dark outside, why can you see light? Clearly extra lighting for filming. |
jimmy1 |
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0:51
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Visual |
When Norman picks up Marian's body to carry it to his trunk, a bra is visible through the shower curtain. |
delboy |
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0:54
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Fact |
The 3 letters on the license plate of the car (NFB 418) which eventually ends up in the swamp are NFB. Norman Francis Bates. |
delboy |
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0:54
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Continuity |
After the murder of Marion Crane, Norman dutifully cleans up after Mother. As he carried Marion's body out to the car there are very clearly drops of water left on the car from the previous rain storm Marion has just driven through. However from shot to shot the car is wet-dry-wet-dry. When Norman drives the car to the swamp it is completely dry. |
shawn1 |
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1:00
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Continuity |
When Norman is exiting the room after the murder and prepping her car. You'll notice that he doesn't shut the door to the cabin but you here the door closing |
bradlantis |
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1:00
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Continuity |
When Norman is driving Marions car into the swamp, you can see on the liscence plate that the car is a 56' or a 58' (the lighting system cause a shadow to block out the second number), but at the car dealer there is a 57' on the windshield |
bradlantis |
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1:00
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Visual |
If you watch Marion driving her car out of Pheonix and also out of Los Angeles, you can see out the back window that she is driving the car, but she is not bouncing around in her seat. She's sitting still. It is obviously a blue green. |
bradlantis |
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1:04
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Visual |
Just before the detective goes to say to Bates "Can i check cabin..." he opens his mouth but we don't hear what he says. |
shawn1 |
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1:17
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Visual |
When the sheriff's wife hands him the phone you are able to tell this scene was shot on stage because there is no ceiling. |
shawn1 |
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1:20
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Continuity |
When Arbogast is slowly making his way up the stairs in the house, Mother comes out and stabs him in the face. Arbogast throws his head back before tha knife comes down, missing the knife completly but we do hear the stabbing sound |
bradlantis |
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1:21
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Visual |
As we all know, Norman's mother is dead and rotting to the bone. But when Norman carries his mother's corpse out of her room and down the stairs, you can see that 'mother' has a healthy and fleshy pair of legs that dangle in sight.Not bad for 10 years rotting. |
delboy |
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1:24
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Miscellaneous |
When Norman takes off the painting on the wall to reveal the peephole,you can tell it is a set wall. If the wall were real, there would've been caulking in between wooden slats off wood. |
bradlantis |
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1:27
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Fact |
When we are experiencing the dramatic irony of when the woman walks up to the shower curtain and opens it, you can tell that it is a woman, not a man. Anthony Perkins was actually on broadway at that time rehearsing for an upcoming show. |
bradlantis |
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1:29
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Miscellaneous |
As Sam and Lila hunt around for clues, Lila (Marions sister ) leaves the cabins and heads to the Bates old house up the hill, look behind her and you can see the mop and bucket from the shower scene, leaning against a building. |
Julia2 |
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1:30
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Fact |
In the beginning of the movie, while Marion is in the Hotel room with Sam, her bra and half-slip are white and she has a white purse. When she gets the temptation the take the money while she's packing her suitcase, Her bra andhalf-slip are black, and she has a black purse. Marion was given to character descriptions in the film. When she is wearing her white bra, white half-slip, and white purse, the angel side of herself is acting. When she is wearing the black bra, black half-slip, and black purse, the devil side of herself is acting. Then when Marion is taking a shower, she is supposedly cleaning away the sins of her actions. |
bradlantis |
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1:30
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Continuity |
After Marion is stabbed and she fell out of the tub, the camera pans back from her face until you can see her whole head and throat. If you look closely at her throat, you can just barely see Janet Leigh is taking small gasps of air. |
bradlantis |
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1:56
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Miscellaneous |
After Norman has discovered that
"the woman" Sam came with is not with her, He grabs a porceline cup and hits same with it knocking him out stone cold,but Norman hit him in the back. Sam had to have been hit in the head to pass out on the floor. Hard to believe that he was knocked out from getting hit in the back. |
bradlantis |
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2:05
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Visual |
Vera Miles has just found Mrs. Bates in the basement and after screaming, Norman or Norma comes down to kill her. John Gavin runs up behind him and pulls him to the floor as Norman screams, but, why is his mouth still open when the screaming is done? |
bradlantis |
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2:11
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Visual |
At the end of the movie, and after Mother Bates said "why she wouldn't even harm a fly," A skeleton is edited in over Anthony Perkins face the give an eery effect, the Mother will stay in him forever. |
bradlantis |