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Comprehension Questions

Directions:  Answer the following questions as you watch the film.

1.   Similar to North by Northwest, how is tension established in the opening credits of Psycho?

2.   Using a motif similar to Rear Window, how does Hitchcock take us into Marion and Sam’s world?

3.   What does Tom, the homebuyer, say to Marion about how to alleviate unhappiness?

4.   Hitchcock uses voice-over narration in a way that we haven’t seen before in other films.  What does he tell the viewer with this technique?  Some of the scenes include when Marion sees her boss after leaving Phoenix and after she buys a new car.  What sound effects are applied to the voices?

5.   Marion overhears a fight between Norman and his mother from the house.  Characterize the relationship between Norman and his mother that viewers can infer from their verbal spat.

6.   What is Norman’s hobby?  How is this information important to the story and establishing his character?

7.   What does Norman say about people and traps?  He says he’s born into his trap.  What is Norman’s trap?

8.   Briefly analyze the following shot in terms of its content, its framing, its angle, etc.  What is the significance of the owl in the background?

9.   What does Norman’s advice about traps inspire Marion to do?  What does she plan to do?

10. How is voyeurism apparent in Psycho?  What happens to Norman when he becomes a voyeur?

11. In the shower scene, explain the metaphor Hitchcock makes when he  cuts from an extreme close-up of the drain to an extreme close-up of Marion’s eye.

12. When Arbogast begins to suspect that Norman may be lying, Hitchcock switches from medium shots to medium close-up shots.  Why does he do so?

13. In Arbogast’s murder scene, why is a bird’s-eye-view shot so necessary?

14. When Sam and Lyla visit the sheriff, what do they learn happened ten years ago?  How were Norman’s mother and her lover found and by who?  Why might this be important?

15. Besides Marion and Arbogast, what other people has Bates killed?  What justification does the psychiatrist give for the reason that Norman killed other Bates motel patrons?

16. As briefly as you can, paraphrase what happened to Norman and why he is who is he is according to the psychiatrist.

Photography Review

Directions:  To review the types of shots, angles, and lighting concepts we learned in chapter one, briefly  explain the type of shot and angle for each shot.  Afterwards, briefly explain why you think that Hitchcock chose that particular shot and angle for that shot.  Why is the shot effective?