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OZéĐďčZQěXQéZQÖcďVîĹYŃĆňyO-XqŰ/mŢâöôĐ2e9˙ňűňĐdHęĂ0oTÖÖÎôÜ5B ţ66óĚGsiV4ĂŐf. P-SČrTĆ. QďöÂPŔTŢcciiěŢÂj×HEűËcgůLasIăY÷äwćPţzČbě˙m/1/÷î¸nŢkĎdüW!rôVęAÄ KRDD Release date for PSYCHO: June 16, 1960 Earnings: 11, 200, 000 the top grossing film directed by Alfred Hitchcock Oscar nomination John L. Russell for Best Black White Cinematography Oscar nomination Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo for American Film Institute 100 100 Thrills PSYCHO No. 1 in 2001 Rather than discussing all of psychological elements in this popular film, I want to tell my experience of watching this Hitchcock classic when it was first shown in movie theaters and how the music was used so effectively. It was the end of June in 1960 and I had just graduated from high school so I was floating on a cloud of teenage euphoria. I had noticed the clever promo trailer by Alfred Hitchcock on television for his latest film and I was intrigued when he said that nobody should tell the films story to their friends and many of them did not tell anyone. Since I couldnt interest my best friend Gene to see it with me, I went alone to the Paramount Theater, an enormous movie palace in downtown Newark, New Jersey. I was immediately interested when the film opened with Marion Crane Janet Leigh in a white bra and slip kissing a bare chested Sam Loomis John Gavin on a bed. That was really daring stuff for those conservative times and how it got past the censors is a mystery to me. It was reported that bra sales increased dramticially after that scene with the beautifully buxom Janet Leigh. Later on in the film Marion took off with 40, 000 dollars of stolen cash and for tang shan da xiong she was shown as the naughty girl dressed in black bra and slip. She had gone from the good girl in love white to a bad one in theft black and both were illustrated by what color underwear she wore! Who tang shan da xiong thought of that but Hitchcock? And what a lovely sight she was for a teenage guy sitting in the theater. Obviously, I wasnt paying much attention to the music in those scenes. But I was aware the music was rather somber to fit Marions guilt over stealing the money. There is a long scene when Marion talks with Norman Bates Anthony Perkins at the Bates Motel and he reveals himself to be a very strange though likable young man who lives in a big eerie house on top of the hill. He stuffs birds and acts somewhat like a bird as he pecks at candy corn, and he loves his mother who he says mistreats him but she is ill. Marion feels sorry for Norman and because of their talk decides to drive home in the morning and return the money. After their conversation, she retires to her room in Cabin No. 1, and then comes the most famous moment in the First there was Marion throwing her ripped up tang shan da xiong into a toilet reportedly shown for the first time in a Hollywood film. When Marion first steps into the shower there is no music heard. Everything seems normal until a shadowy figure appears behind her and suddenly the shower curtain is pulled back and there is the sound of high-pitched bird-like shrieking strings. This cue was known as The Knife in Herrmanns score. Marion screams and the strings accompany her blood-curdling screams. This music came across like a bolt of lightning because it was so unexpected and some in the audience actually jumped in their seats when the knife starts cutting up poor Marion Crane. Then something happened Ill never forget several women in the audience were screaming at the top of their lungs and holding their stomachs as if somebody punched them or maybe they were ready to throw up as they quickly ran out of the theater. These were adult women, not teenage kids like at todays scary films. Most of the audience was made up of older folks at least older than me so to hear them screaming was quite a shock to me and added more fear to the murder being shown so gruesomely on screen.