She kills the private investigator Arbogast (Martin Balsam), who only gets to the top of the stairs before she knocks him back down with the force of her knife. We enter a second time just before Mother’s second murder. But even then, we only get a glimpse into the house itself. The camera follows him there as a misdirect aimed to convince us that Norman played no part in what will soon happen in the motel bathroom. After Norman says goodnight to Marion, we journey with him up the nearby hill and into the first floor of the house, where he sits down at the kitchen table dejected and embarrassed by his inability to converse with Marion. Hitchcock waits to bring the camera into the interior of the Bates house until just before Mother murders Marion in the shower of her motel room. The change illustrates one of the core rules of Hitchcockian suspense: don’t show a space until it is dramatically necessary. Marion overhears the exchange and instead eats supper with Norman in the parlor attached to the office of the motel, safe from Mother’s ears. But in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film adaptation, Norman runs the idea by Mother, who chastises Norman for even thinking about bringing a young woman into her home. In Robert Bloch’s original novel, Marion accepts the invitation and eats in the house’s tiny kitchen with Norman, who spends much of their time together paranoid that Mother will overhear their conversation. When Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) first arrives at the Bates Motel in Psycho, Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins) invites her up to his house for dinner.
This time, we consider the ending of Psycho.
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Ending Explained is a recurring series in which we explore the finales, secrets, and themes of interesting movies and shows, both new and old.
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