The way his mom talks


it doesn't make sense how in one movie when he is talking to his dead mother you can clearly see Norman is talking for her predending to be her mainly used in the first one. Yet in the third one you can clearly see he is not moving his mouth when his dead mother talks so you can guess it is just Norman thinking he hears her but really he is just imagning. It makes no sense why he wold change styles back and forth.

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I always thought that he just kinda "warmed up" by talking to himself out loud.. and that he didn't feel that he needed it sometimes. That is was kinda random or something. Like one day he needed to talk out loud to her to make it feel more realistic, and then he just didn't need that for a while. I have no idea though. Just my two cents. :)

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In Psych II when you see Norman move his lips, he's talking to someone else ("Why can't you leave my poor boy, my Norman alone?") so he'd need to be talking out loud but private conversations could be in his head , although Marion overhears in the original so he must speak out loud sometimes.

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Mmmm, bit of a mistake there...

Has anyone ever noticed that when we first hear Norma talk (at the fathers funeral) her voice sounds deep and well frankly I think it sounds like a transvestites! Also when we hear the voice come from "Mother" in Normans head she clearly has an american accent, but in the film it sounds Latin-Like. I have seen Oliva Hussey in other movies and I know she has this accent but they could have changed it a little!

"I'M A TEAPOT! I'M A TEAPOT!"-Tim Brook Taylor

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Uh. Not exactly. A transvestite is...(LOL). I think when "Mother" talks for the first time at the funeral, it is supposed to be Norman retelling what she was saying.

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It was Anthony Perkins providing Olivia Hussey's voice for the funeral scene, he was relaying it to Fran Ambrose on the radio and I guess that was the most stylish way to do it. Personally I thought it worked pretty well.

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What doesn't makes sense for me is why they hired a women with a British accent.

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I don't think it matters that much, but her accent was a bit strange, yes.

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Olivia Hussey isn't English. She's from Argentina.

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Olivia Hussey is half English and half Argentine.

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I could picture Norman's mother being strict English proper with him in manners/whatnot.

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