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boulcvcrse-blog · 5 years

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OoOh she’s sweet but a psychOOO (a little bittle psycho). oh, hey ! didn’t see you there ! i’m kate (she/her) , i’m nineteen & i have no fucking idea what i’m doing, but you can bet your bottom dollar i’m excited AF to be here (and i’m not afraid to admit it -- i almost cried of joy when i saw i got accepted) ! anyways, you can find out a little bit about my fellow bin chicken alex below the cut and if u vibe hit that lil heart button so i can burst into ur IM’s with all my love, affection, and thirst for the plots !

( stats ) , ( biography ) , ( pinterest ) , ( wanted connections ) NOTE: parts of her biography have been redacted because it describes her secret and idk if we’re sharing those just yet so?

quick stats !

skeleton: the princess

name/nickame(s): alexandra petra vera windsor -- she refuses to adopt a nickname so unless you want to die young, pls only call her alexandra

age: twenty

major(s): law & political science

star sign: aquarius sun don’t @ me

a vine that sums up alex: (x) and this (x) sums up her entire family life

a song that describes her: sex money feelings die - lykke li

MBTI: intj

a lil history !

born as the eldest of six children to the king and queen of england, alexandra has known nothing but riches and opulence her whole life

that being said, she was rather brutally neglected by her family because she couldn’t carry on the windsor name and line

so basically life at home was hellish and cold and loveless for alexandra -- she got ignored a lot, her parents barely ever spoke to her, she had little to no access to the outside world (homeschooling was the go to for the royal family until high school), and often had everything that went wrong blamed on her (even if she had literally nothing to do with it)

there was also A LOT of sibling rivalry because all her siblings were BOYS and therefore everyone thought they were somehow better than alex (news flash, 4/5 of the boys are absolute pieces of shit, with the only exception being nikolaj who is a smol bean)

when she was about fifteen her younger brother who was first in line for the throne, dmitri, drowned and this threw everyone into a bit of a tizzy. as a result of family tensions and grief, alex got sent to america and has been here ever since

she attended a good private boarding school, and eventually ended up at st. etienne’s where she is absolutely Thriving(tm)

alex hasn’t seen her family since she was seventeen and literally gives no fucks about them -- as far as she’s concerned they literally don’t exist

personality !

naturally, growing up in that kind of hostile environment described above really fucked alex up and ya girl has got some twisted ass sense of right and wrong.

on the outside, she’s polite enough to pass as a well-adjusted, if slightly snarky, young woman who is driven to achieve. she doesn’t interact with many people, especially not those she deems to be below her and she can be quite hot and cold even with those she does talk to

on the inside she a hot mess ! there’s is this constant anger that’s bubbling up inside of her and threatens to explode at any moment. and below that anger is just a tragic little shell of a girl who never really grew up. honestly, she needs a fucking hug and someone to be like “ hey bitch, i see u, u matter, ily ” but will that ever happen? probably not my dudes

#veritasintro #this is a flaming pile of shit #like u know that gif where the guy walks into the room on fire with pizza?#thats it #thats this intro

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filmista · 7 years

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Vintage horror: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock decided to make a different kind of film than he had ever made. US censorship had become more relaxed and B movies gathered thanks to their rotation in drive-in theaters many times their cost. This gave him the opportunity to experiment with the horror genre and to display his versatility to the world.

To cut costs, he used instead of his usual film crew team of the popular television series Alfred Hitchcock presents, lesser people. Only composer Bernard Herrmann, and his personal assistant Peggy Robertson were allowed to participate.

Hitchcock managed to complete the film for one million dollars. However, he was not convinced of the quality and even toyed with the idea to shorten the film and use it for television. But as so often his wife Alma had a positive influence on him and the film was brought into cinemas.

Psycho became a huge success in no time and one of the first so-called hypes. The influence that the film has had on the horror genre, shouldn’t be underestimated. In 1998, Gus Van Sant made an exact remake of Psycho; The film was butchered worldwide under the motto "if it ain’t broke, then don’t try to fix it."

Throughout film history there probably hasn’t been committed a murder that is as famous as the one in Psycho. Almost everyone knows the iconic scene in which the character Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is attacked while showering with a knife. In the 45 seconds that the attack lasts, director Alfred Hitchcock used more than seventy angles. When the attacker flees and the horrible violins on the soundtrack die down a little, Marion collapses and takes the shower curtain down with her in her fall.

Leigh died in early October 2004 at the age of 77. In her career, she has portrayed more than one impressive role. Yet she will always be remembered, for coming to her end screaming in that damned shower.

For her role she got her only Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Leigh became a horror icon as did her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween" (1978), "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" (1998) and 'Halloween: Resurrection' (2002)). In H20 mother and daughter act side by side. Psycho apparently led many viewers to become afraid of the bathroom and Leigh admitted several times that she wasn’t able to shower without fear after seeing the film.

If you look at that particular moment without any context in the year 2017 you’ll find it incomprehensible even silly, why precisely this one murder has become so famous. So many years later, it looks pretty old-fashioned. It’s not so much about the moment itself but rather the impeccable, unpredictable buildup to it: It is a massacre that no one saw coming. And one that by the standards of that time was very intense and in your face.

By the time the Marion Crane comes to her grizzly end, Psycho is a small three quarters of the way…

The film begins with office clerk Marion Crane she works hard but earns too little. She wants to marry her boyfriend Sam (John Gavin), but she also has to survive on a meagre quite miserable salary. One day she receives from her boss the task to take a large sum of money to the bank. In a fit of despair and desperation Marion decides to keep the money for herself and then she flees. After a long journey, she stops to spend the night in the first, completely random motel that she encounters.

It turns out to be the Bates Motel, where the timid and shy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) works alongside his mother. He has it turns out a weird fascination with mommy dearest, who lives in the sinister mansion that stands behind the motel. Norman and Marion eat something together, and she decides to take a shower. How that shower ends we all know. Afterwards Marion's sister Lila (Vera Miles) and her friend (Sam Lomis) come to investigate, assisted by inspector Arbogast (Martin Balsam). It soon becomes clear that Norman is not quite who he seems.

It’s now almost impossible to imagine how big the shock must have been when Psycho was first released to the public. At the time Marion gets in the shower, there is no reason to not believe that she is not the protagonist of the story. Hitchcock himself had bought almost all the copies of the book Psycho to ensure that no one would know the plot twist. He also made his cast and crew swear to not reveal the twist.

What also helped to increase the shock effect was the marketing campaign of Psycho. In 1960 it was still normal to enter the room after ten minutes or even after the first half of a film. That was different in Psycho. Large posters were distributed to cinemas, Hitchcock claimed that nobody (even though you might have been the Queen of England or the President of the United States) was allowed in the room after the beginning of the film. It caused a real hype and there were long lines at the box office.

Even before the release of Psycho horror films were made, but they were especially made for young audiences. A great director had never ventured into the genre. Hitchcock was at the time a familiar face because of his tv series. His latest film attracted a large audience: an audience that was totally not prepared for the gruesome massacre of the main character. Several reviewers described how visitors began to panic and run through the cinema. The screeching violins on the soundtrack, they would only notice during the second or third viewing, because the music simply didn’t rise above the screams of the audience.

And to think that the scene was almost stopped by the censorship committee. In 1960 several (Christian) clubs had much to say about the content of films. They found the famous shower scene obviously much too explicit. But Hitch convinced them that the violence wasn’t all that bad…

According to him, you do not see a woman being stabbed, that is only the illusion of the assembly. That the film is shot in black and white was a deliberate choice of the director. That would help, according to him to make it less gruesome. For many, the film was nevertheless still too much to handle. Walt Disney famously denied Hitchcock access to his park because he had made “that disgusting Psycho movie”

The Bloody script couldn’t appeal to most studio bosses. Because of this Hitchcock decided to fund Psycho largely out of his own pocket, with his house as collateral. He was by this time sixty years old and wanted to deliver something exciting, something that would shock. He had, had enough of the big stars and expensive films. He wanted make something on a small scale. A bold choice, but one that worked out. Psycho was his most successful film yet and the director made his fortune.

All these things contribute to the legendary status that the film still enjoys. About the production a biopic was made, with Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock. But even without that knowledge in mind Psycho is worth it, as pure entertainment. Of course, the film is slightly old fashioned for modern standards, but the great atmosphere, memorable scenes and legendary soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann are certainly not.

For instance just take the dinner that Marion and Norman have, immediately before she is killed. It is a fairly normal conversation, one we could all have but because of the strange way Hitchcock puts it on screen it doesn’t feel that way. Hitchcock chooses strange, crooked angles and always take the stuffed birds on the wall onto screen. An ordinary dialogue becomes suspenseful even frightening. It’s amongst other things, for that kind of little things that Hitchcock is called the master of suspense.

I read the novel by Robert Bloch on which the film was based a while ago, the book is to put it mildly not a good book, it's even hard to read because it's so poorly written.

Quality wise It’s miles away from what we ended up with in the film. It is essentially a poorly written novel, of the kind you can buy at an airport the scenes are absurd, the horror gorier, absolutely disgusting (in the shower scene, there is talk of decapitation) and far from subtle and even the dialogues are not as sophisticated. And this is not only the merit of the director but also of the talented screenwriter Joseph Stefano.

The actors deliver performances of high calibre. This time, no big stars like James Stewart or Cary Grant, but the back then relatively unknown Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh played the main roles.

Perkins is especially memorable as the nervous, strange Norman Bates a man who is difficult to seize up and get through. A man whose best friend is his mother and with who you can both sympathise and easily feel hatred for. You really care about what happens to him. And that is a rarity in many modern horror films.

One of the characteristics of a Hitchcock film are the strong interpretations of the actors. Anthony Perkins is great. And It’s a mystery why he stayed Norman Bates in the shitty sequels, as he probably could have done so much more. He was the right man to interpret this particular role though.

Unlike in the book where the main character was obese, older, careless and unsympathetic, Hitchock and Stefano made the character likeable, young, slim, sensitive and even attractive in a nonchalant, almost imperceptible way. Although personally I’d never ever go out with a man that looked at me like this:

I like to think I have common sense and not a death wish...

And it works. You're attracted by the intriguing character with his frail voice. You feel compassion for him, you even feel sorry for him, and at times you feel that a relationship with Marion could possibly flourish. Consequently, the film in the first place is a tragedy and then a horror film.

The question of whether It’s Hitchcock's best? Might divide opinions. The American Film Institute for example, once chose Psycho as the most suspenseful film ever made. Anyway Psycho is much more than just one of the films with the most famous murder in film history. It is one of the most influential and best films ever made. And an excellent movie to get acquainted with the work of Hitchcock.

The film was groundbreaking at a time when horror was actually really more something of the past (Frankenstein, Dracula, ...). The shock element in the film has quite naturally become a little less shocking with the passing of time, but the manipulative narrative technique and masterful interpretations continue to impress and strike a chord.

It’s a film that has inspired many other thrillers and horror films (Raging Bull, Jaws, Cape Fear, Halloween, Dressed to Kill, ...) and, moreover, created a new genre that’s still alive and kicking today, the slasher film. It’s a monument of cinema and should be seen at least once, or more than once by any film lover.

“It's sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man... as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can't move a finger, and I won't. I'll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do... suspect me. They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."

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