What went right?
>>69189170
Top tier cinematography, suspense, and the twist halfway
Anthony Perkins' 10/10 GOAT performance for one
Also Hitchcock's total willingness to throw the entire rulebook out the window just to give himself a laugh and then actually being skilled enough to pull it off.
>>69189170
Everything went right
Suspense from the start
Shocking scene involving the lead actress
Mystery in the second half involving Norman and his mother
Gigantic plot Twist
Eerie finale
Find a flaw. You literally can't.
>>69189170
Hitchcock went right
Bernard Herrmann's score.
>>69189170
10/10 director
10/10 cast
10/10 acting
10/10 soundtrack
10/10 plot
10/10 themes
10/10 photography
10/10 editing
>let's have a character come out and explain the whole plot to the audience in the last 15 minutes.
>>69190588
>whole plot
How do you figure?
>his favourite Hitch film isn't Vertigo
>>69190588
Roger Ebert acknowledges that in his Great Movies review but for the time in the 60s it worked having it be in there.
>>69189468
>Find a flaw. You literally can't.
Wasn't a cannibal and didn't wear Janet Leigh's skin afterwards.
>>69190632
Fight me.
>>69190588
The science of jewish mind tricks was not widely known at the time. This is one of the movies that really popularized cliched personality profiling.
>muh critique of capitalism
marxist critics need to fuck off
>>69189468
>Needless exposition from psychiatrist talking to the audience for five minutes straight.
Every fact in that speech (killed his mother because of jealousy and created a split personality) could and should have been shown to us rather than just bluntly spat out as an epilogue. Maybe the "he wouldn't hurt a fly" monologue accomplishes most of this, but I bet Hitchcock thought it would go over everyone's heads. It was the first of its kind after all.
