Psycho is a 1960 American thriller/horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The novel was based on the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. The film depicts the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), who is in hiding at a motel after embezzling from her employer, and the motel's owner, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), and the aftermath of their encounter.
From the beginning of the intro credits we hear loud and moody music that sends us the viewer into a sense of fear as the director seems to be communicating through the music that the film isn't going to be happy from the very start. We are then introduced to the first part of the film, we are presented with an aerial view of Wisconsin which slowly zooms into a window . This shot tells us the audience of our location and the pan into a random apartment is in my opinion is really smart and well edited because it gives the sense that the rest of the film is about a real person and a real situation, the music in this segment is also a complete juxtaposition as it uses string instruments to almost calm the viewer from the boom of the previous music and say that the city is calm, normal and safe.
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