Wednesday 30 January 2013

Intertextuality


Psycho and Stepfather

As we can see in the picture above the position the man is holding the knife is a direct link to Psycho, the only difference is that in Psycho the identity of the person is hidden whereas in Stepfather we know who the person is and we know that he intended to stab someone from before so there was a build up to this moment whereas in Psycho it was a shock/sudden.

In the picture above we can see that after getting stabbed the man is trying to stop himself from falling by holding onto the shower curtains like the woman in Psycho. Due to this, the curtains come down with them and this is filmed in the same way using a close up on the shower rings/hooks in both Psycho and Stepfather.

In Stepfather the man has the same look/expression on his face and slides down the bathroom wall in the same way as the woman in Psycho.

Overall, this scene was pretty much a repeat of the famous shower scene in Psycho.

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