The furnishings and clothes from this film look like it takes place in the early 60s but the amount Marion steals is updated to close to half a million (it was 40,000) in the original film.. So what time period is this supposed to be??
share1990's, Julianne Moore's character is also carrying a walkman.
shareI see.. Thank you. I just read on Wikipedia that the time on this film is the 90s, but some of the clothes and the furnishings look like an earlier time... interesting mix...
shareyes, it's a strange film. Didn't work in my opinion.
shareI think the filmmakers couldn't even decide for sure. Julianne Moore's character looks like she's from the 90s, but William H. Macy looks like he got out of a time machine from the 60s.
shareThey also pulled this same shit in the 1997 Leave It To Beaver film, where they had 90s technology mixed with 50s/60s fashion to where almost all of the girls were wearing nothing but smocked dresses and skirts from those eras. It was so fucking cringeworthy and out of place! We get it, it's like the original Leave To Beaver from the late 50s and early 60s!
shareThe movie industry made another Psycho???? How absolutely stupid. Nothing could replace the original. No wonder the remake has such a low rating.
shareAt the beginning of the film the title reads:
Phoenix, Arizona
Friday, Decemeber 11, 2:43 PM
1998
So there you go.
The original had the same titles at the beginning...but no year(1960 was the year of release, but the movie came out in the summer so December might have been backwards in 1959 for the original Psycho)
The Van Sant Psycho came out on Friday December 4, 1998...just one week before the date on the movie's start on Friday December 11. And yet Universal wasn't interested in moving the release date even by a week.