Psycho - Renegade Cut 

Another thing I really like is Hitchcock's manipulation to make the audience sympathetic to Norman. When he puts Marion's body into the car, and drops it into the swamp, it doesn't go in all the way at first. Then, it cuts to Norman's face, before finally showing the car go in. Most people will see that scene and feel "oh no! it's not going to go in, and he'll be caught" without even thinking about it. Just in one moment, Hitchcock put you on Norman's side and forced you to identify with his nervousness, and you didn't even realize it.

There is nothing more horrifying than seeing the mask of a supposedly nice, unthreatening person drop...and to realize you have wholly misjudged the situation and your life is in danger.

This is from the book, so it doesn't affect the film, but I just thought I'd mention it. When you mentioned how Norman talks in great detail about mental institutions, there's a part in the book where it is said that Norman spent a few months in a "hospital" following his mother and her lover's deaths.

Some out of universe trivia as well. Hitchcock as a child developed a phobia of cops after a harsh punishment from his father. The rather intimidating viewpoint Marion has of the highway officer is also a slightly personal gesture from Hitchcock himself.

I like analytical videos like this that give interesting insight into themes of favourite films and bring out something new. There must be a limit to the bird associations that were intended though. For instance it could be said Marion was robin the bank because she had a big bill.

If only Marian had decided to sleep at the side of the road again . Also noticed how ironic it was that when she stopped at Bates motel she was only 15 miles from her destination .Two alternative options that would've spared her life

I just watched this movie today. I knew the big twist and the shower scene going in but it was still so unnerving, maybe even moreso in the dinner scene

Fantastic analysis. You pointed out a lot of things I never noticed about this film, and I've seen it multiple times.

The funniest thing to me is that Hitchcock hated the movie being called "horror" and liked less being known as a horror director. Yet, his very next movie was The Birds.

Another ironic layer involving the imagined reaction on the part of the oil man ... Marion imagined him commenting on how "flirtatious" she was and how that was her way to get the money from him. The psychiatrist at the end would explain how Norman was infatuated with Marion and it was what drove him (or her if you want to assume "Mother") to kill Marion. In fact, you could take Norman's approach as an awkward yet well-meaning effort at flirting.

This is one of the most fun movies to watch with someone who knows nothing about it. A college roomie watched it with me for the first time in theaters at special viewing. If you have a non moviebuff friend bring them to this movie.

What I've heard from pretty much every documentary is that the overexplaining of Norman's personality disorder was never what Stefano or Hitchcock wanted to write but what MPAA requested to tone down the transvestite aspect of the film and explain it was not sexual, just insanity. It works just fine but it dates Psycho just a bit.

I forgot how much I loved this movie. It's so great!

Great analysis of the film. I will add this to the Bates house as a representation of Norman's mind: near the end of the film when they investigate the house, there are piles of junk in the background with what look to be old toys, possibly meaning that Norman is in a state of arrested development. Now contrast that with the immaculate condition of his mother's room and I think we can figure out what their relationship was like, or at least how it exists in his mind (i.e., submissive to an overbearing will).

15:40---Which brought us to the reasoning behind PSYCHO IV and BATES MOTEL

Excellent explanation of the psychological aspects, and description Hitchcock’s use of mirroring in his films. How he focused on appearances, how people see one another, and their perceptions. One eerie part I’d missed was the smile Marion and Norman share. Marion grins in the camera when she was driving to the motel, then Norman grins at the end, creepy...

Psycho was the big example on one of Hitchcock's philosophies of life that some people are just maliciously greedy and maliciously sisnister. Norman Bates and his mother was all a guise, very much like Ed Norton in Primal Fear. As supported by the ending monologue. The bug repellent part was a critique on the cruel experiments they do on people whom are deemed insane ("they never say if it harms the bug or not") if you notice Marion and Norman have the same sinister smile at one point. Marion when she is driving and Norman twice when the car sinks and at the very end

Oh man, really loved this one. Psycho is one of my top 10 favorite films, I did an analysis of it myself for a class. The parlor scene is just dripping with tension and symbolism. Probably the best scene in the movie, though a lot of people gloss over it. I liked your pointing out of the dramatic irony, I hadn't noticed that personally. I like how many "easter eggs" are in the opening 40 minutes. It's not simply to waste time to make the twist more jarring.

I always liked this one. Thank you for putting it back up.

Great video! Liked and subscribed. While watching Psycho for the first time (!) yesterday - and, despite inevitably knowing a lot about what happens going in thanks to social osmosis, enjoying it immensely - I for some reason noticed Norman Bates' eyelashes in the dinner scene. They looked very scruffy and messy juxtaposed with Marion's very pretty and tidy ones. I don't know whether it was intentional, but they looked like the eyelashes of someone who has applied mascara themselves but isn't very good at it - although I suppose that might just have been how Perkins' eyelashes looked (my God, what a handsome man he was!). But then, after Marion's murder, when the camera zooms out from a close up of her eye, her eyelashes looks just like Bates' in the dinner scene (showering and/or being murdered will do that to your make-up) - and it might just be me being over-analytical, but I thought it was a subtly very striking way to state that Norman effectively was a dead woman walking.

What a weird coincidence. I'm redoing a blog series I did three years ago showcasing the history and cultural impact of various monsters and villains every day of October up to Halloween, and Norman Bates was today's topic. As always, great video!

Always ready for another renegade cut

This is a highly complex,intricate, version of excellence.

I also thank you for uploading this enlightening video essay of a great film.

I don't know if this was intended or not, but I feel it is important to note that the color changes in both Marion's and Norman's attire are further emphasized by the types of clothes they wear. Whereas Marion's undergarments become dark to symbolize her mindset descending into crime and deceit, the variation in the color of Norman's shirt-- which he wears on the outside, not underneath his other clothes-- is more relevant to how the audience, as well as other characters in the story, perceive him on the outside; but not how he truly functions on the inside, unlike Marion.

I think if Norman looked into a mirror, he'd see Mother. While everyone else would just see Norman.

Interesting analysis. I also noticed that when Marion's in her apartment and closing the suitcase, the door to the bathroom is open and the showerhead can be seen behind her. IDK if it's a fluke or a foreshadowing, but on second watching... I think the 'peaceful death' is supposed to foreshadow how Mrs. Bates died - 'Strycnine. Awful stuff.' And your theory about Norman and his father reminded me SO MUCH of what happens in Bates Motel, which - SPOILERS is exactly that. Norman kills his father but then doesn't remember it.

Thanks for reuploading this. It's perfect for Halloween and such an amazing analysis! Hitchcock had an amazing eye for detail.

possibly THE greatest horror film ever.a real freak show .a theater in Harvard sq. shows it every Mother's day.

Is this an old video? I feel like I’ve seen this before

There are so many videos about this movie. I'd have liked it if you had told us in the first minute that it would be another analysis. At 1:16 it seems it will only be that, and I can't spend the data. oh well.

Great analysis! Just subscribed! 😃

Fascinating... but I'm sure I'm one of millions who greatly relished this movie without any knowledge of depth-psychology or the use of mirrors, although I'm sure they added to the atmosphere that was such a big part of the film.

Very good analysis about this movie; you gave alot of thought on this movie. Hitchcock cleverly uses symbolic idiosyncrisities in this movie that I never even thought of before.

it would interesting to see how someone would adapt this idea based on today's psychological ideals,, they did a remake but it didn't seem to have any depth into psychology just surface level restating this movies ideals

Arbogast doesn't see right through Norman...

I have only recently found my way to your channel and I have been watching several of your film analyses every day and have enjoyed all of them very much. I love movies, am always interested in philosophy, theology, mythology and have lately been educating myself on film theory and the film making process (only by way of RU-vid, of course ^^). I also really like David Lynch and his work. So your channel is really pretty perfect for me. Luckily, you have accumulated a vast archive of videos. It's really brought me a lot of joy. And, although I'd say I _know_ a lot of stuff and that I _get_ a lot of stuff, I can truly say I have already learned a lot. Thank you for doing what you're doing. And I can even clear up one remaining mystery about "Psycho", one of most utter insignificance. The mystery of the second stuffed bird. Is it a crow or a raven? It's a raven. They have longer and heavier beaks than crows.

This one was always my favourite, along with Kiki

And Donald Spoto says Hitchcock didn't do puns... :-D

Your voice seemed to have gotten a little calmer these days. Aside from this video of course. Great videos though!

Hitchcock hated being called a "horror movie director", yet his very next picture was The Birds.

ok but "stuffing birds" was a bit of a stretch

How do you find these things? I noticed the color changes in the clothing but the symbolism of the birds never occurred to me!

The man plays psycho he totally gorgeous yummy beautiful looking dude great actor

can you do close encounters of the third kind it features symbolism with religious symbols but by the way has so many themes by the way it a classic masterpiece

Will you ever make a video on hard to be a god

This was genius.

Great videos! Have just subscribed. Liked Hitchcock's use of the money as a MacGuffin...but someone always sees a girl with $40,OOO!

that looked like a fisher or possibly a woodpecker to me, not a hawk

Took you long enough

Deadass this movie isn't scary so much as deeply depressing to me, knowing that Norman is never gonna get good help cause he's stuck in that passable era of Freudian psych.

Kinda wish there was a remake of this one honestly, one trying to keep the atmosphere and pace but updating the story to have a more nuanced view on mental health and sexuality that didn't make you leave the otherwise good movie with a bad taste in your mouth you know (yes I know about that shot for shot remake, but I assume it didn't change anything plotwise considering)

Staring from the window are u

Not even gonna mention how inaccurate and misleading the depiction of dissociative identity disorder in this film is? No? Okay....