Showing posts with label psychological thrillers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychological thrillers. Show all posts

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock

l am studying Alfred Hitchcock's  "Psycho" of 1960. A classic masterpiece in psychological crime thrillers of the cinema.

Film critic, Roger Ebert's summary of the film in a 1998 review said it all.

"What makes Psycho immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears: Our fears that we might impulsively commit a crime, our fears of the police, our fears of becoming the victim of a madman, and of course our fears of disappointing our mothers."

The biographical romantic drama, "Hitchcock" of 2012 by Sacha Gervasi, a film adaptation of Stephen Rebello's 1990 non-fiction book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" on the dramatic moments between Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville played by Academy Award winning actress, Dame Helen Mirren DBE during the making of "Psycho" in 1959 is also a masterpiece. And the subtlety of the acting genius of Academy Award winning actor, Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE as

Hitchcock should have won him an Oscar for Best Actor. The most  dramatic moment was the scene of Hitchcock in the lobby conducting to the soundtrack in the reaction of the audience during the gripping shower scene in "Psycho".

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

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