![]() ![]() The steam produced ends up turning the moth invisible, leading Cleo to chase it around the house, full of guests, before it gets away. As she works on the experiment at home, while Molly hosts a dinner for her lacrosse team, a moth flies by and distracts Cleo, causing her to accidentally spill unknown chemicals into her solution. Perkins, sees her potential in science and decides she needs a challenge for her class project she is to determine a mystery substance and transform it into its crystal state. Although Cleo is hardly noticed compared to her sister, she is an excellent student, but is introverted and somewhat sarcastic and cynical.Ĭleo's science teacher, Mr. ( October 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭleo is a teenage girl living in the shadow of her older sister, Molly, whose popularity gets her recognized by everyone at school. ![]() Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. The murder itself is shocking - but what it means in the context of the movie is what truly makes it one of cinema’s greatest twists.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. When Hitchcock has Marion cut down in the shower, he’s also severing the audience’s expectations for what a movie looks like. Marion’s death is an abrupt and unexpected ending of a story and the start of another one. The truth about Norman Bates and his murderous “mother” is shocking in its own right, but it’s the thrilling conclusion to a story. That Marion’s death isn’t the only twist in Psycho makes it all the more impressive. The rest of the film is about Lila and Sam’s attempt to find out what happened to Marion. After this, the movie shifts its attention to a new, herebefore unseen character who arrives halfway through the movie: Marion’s sister, Lila (Vera Miles). And then, suddenly, violently, she’s killed. ![]() She has an entire arc and gets a lot of screentime. Marion Crane is the movie’s main character. RELATED: Psycho's scariest moment isn't a scream, but a smile She elects to go back in the morning, return the stolen money, and face the consequences rather than live the rest of her life burdened by guilt and paranoia. There are some tense, uncomfortable sequences (as you’d expect from a Hitchcock movie), but talking to Norman, who feels trapped by his mother, prompts Marion to change her ways. Marion now is on the run, swapping her car for another one and spending the night in the Bates Motel, where she meets the proprietor, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Marion gets pulled over by a cop, and because she is clearly, obviously, very nervous about the massive amount of money she just stole, the cop is suspicious. ![]() This could very well be the premise of an entire movie, and audiences wouldn’t have been crazy for thinking that the rest of the film’s runtime would involve this stolen money. Then, she gets in her car and sets out to drive to Sam’s house in California.Īctress Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in film Psycho (1960) She steals $40,000 - an amount that’s worth more than $400,000 in today’s dollars - from the office where she works. The pair are unable to get married because Sam is in debt, so Marion takes matters into her own hands. Psycho begins with Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh, who was arguably the biggest name in the cast and ostensibly the star) in Phoenix with her lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin). RELATED: How Marion Crane's bra sold Psycho Audiences at the time were used to rolling into movies late, but Hitchcock didn’t want them to miss the first act and the shocking twist. In an unusual move for the time, Hitchcock mandated that nobody would be allowed late admission to Psycho. But in 1960, when the film first came out, moviegoers certainly knew nothing about it. Psycho, now streaming on Peacock, is among Alfred Hitchcock’s best films and certainly one of his most well-known. It’s an iconic scene for a reason, but the fame of the moment obscures that the kill is only part of what might be one of the greatest twists in cinema history. She’s vulnerable and unsuspecting, when all of the sudden a shadowy figure throws the curtain open and stabs her to death while the violin score screehes. A beautiful blonde woman is taking a shower. Even if you’ve never seen Psycho, you know about the scene. ![]()
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