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I agree 100%. That's why I have not been to NYC in years, even though I live very close.
I've been watching her for well over a year. I agree. I have her page bookmarked.
in that interview, she looks AND sounds like she already had a stroke. i had one a year ago. she speaks like me. also the confusion. the bruise? age spots.
I remember the at time reading that Streep only took the role as a 'thank you' to Benton for casting her in K vs K.
In spite of the fact that it's my favorite movie, it is amusing and truthful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWQpTlAhTPI
I never saw The Breakfast Club so I couldn't really relate to that one, but I did find the one for The Birds funny as well.
But honestly, does Norman stammer OTHER than those times above? I honestly can't recall right now. Maybe a bit more under questioning from Arbogast.
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Perhaps we could count when Norman climbs the stairs to tell Mother he's going to put her in the fruit cellar.
He starts with something like, 'Well Mother...I'm going to have to...I have to...I'm going to...' before she laughs and says, 'I am sorry boy, but you do manage to look ludicrous when you give me orders'.
Maybe not actually a stammer, just searching for the right words.
Thanks very much, swanstep. Although I won't read it until I've completely finished watching it, for fear of spoilers (I did inadvertently stumble upon one about season 5 while still watching season 4).
Nothing is overdone here; it is lightly funny and at the moment of crisis(the car stops sinking) all Perkins does is to turn in profile to look for witnesses(a passing car?)
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We all have our different interpretations, but I always felt that when the car momentarily stops sinking, he looks around to see if there's SOMETHING, anything he can use to get it to continue sinking. Perhaps a long, sturdy branch or something?
I just watched it. One thing that Ager got wrong was when he was describing the scene where Lila finds the piece of paper in the toilet.
He refers to her as Marion's sister 'Mary'.
Some of you may realize by now that I'm a nit-picker sometimes, but feel welcome to disagree with me.
I've always thought the conversation between Mother and Norman as Marion listens at the window was too low, and difficult to hear.
So, instead of hearing "...in the cheap erotic fashion of young men with cheap erotic minds...", I've always heard:
"...in the cheap NEUROTIC fashion of young men with cheap, neurotic minds."
I've also seen the line, 'Go on...go tell her she'll not be Pleasing her ugly appetite with MY food...or my son!'
I've always heard it, 'Go on...go tell her she'll not be APPEASING her ugly appetite with my food...or my son!'
Of course, I could absolutely be wrong. But that's what I hear.
I don't think the director really had the skills to modulate Perkins, Miles, or Franz. They came equipped to override him.
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I don't think Franz could be modulated at all. I don't think he could be restrained with reins if he came with a bit in his mouth.
Funny thing about PSYCHO II. I worked with a guy who knew I wanted to see it because I was a Hitchcock fan. He said, the morning it was released, he saw it got a very bad review on TV. They said it got unintentional laughs, and that Universal was backpedaling, claiming 'it was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek'.
When I saw it, I believed it. I couldn't believe that scene about the toasted cheese sandwiches could be interpreted any other way.
It almost seemed like a parody of PSYCHO.
Don't get me wrong. I don't HATE the movie, I just take it for what it is.
This might make sense to nobody but me, but I thought Perkins' acting seemed almost one-note throughout, Vera Miles I always thought was an underrated actress, but here she overacted (in this case, maybe the fault of the director), and Dennis Franz..
I never saw him in that TV show he was on (Hill Street Blues?) but I saw him in three films. PSYCHO II, Dressed to Kill, and Blow-Out. And he acted exactly the same in all three. Loud, barking, twitching, overacting all over the place.
I should say that I thought the plot twist...that Mrs. Spool was his REAL mother...was a real surprise, even though him slapping her over the head with a shovel was greeted with laughter from the audience.
I also thought: MAN, they just opened the door for a bunch of sequels. From now on, this story can go anywhere.
When I saw Psycho II upon release, it lost all credence early on and never really regained it.
I'm talking about the scene where the teenagers were making out in the basement, and the boy gets stabbed to death.
I thought, 'WTF is this? Friday the 13th? Where did THAT scene come from? It doesn't belong in a PSYCHO movie.'
I don't care how impressive the overhead shot of the girl running away is. The whole scene is just random.
I just watched Rocket Man, and I have to say I didn't like it at all.
I will say it was more than I expected it to be. And that's not a good thing.
It was so full of overblown, melodramatic production numbers for most of the songs that it went WAY into the realm of not being believable at all. I didn't believe this was a biopic of Elton John's life. It felt like it was a fantasy of his that he dreamed up. And threw a few facts in.
I have to admit I don't like Broadway musicals. You'd never catch me at 'Les Mis' In fact, I've only seen two and it was because they were 'rock musicals'.
Rent. Excellent show, though depressing. Lousy movie; too watered down.
Jersey Boys. Again, excellent show, lousy movie.
I saw Bohemian Rhapsody, and although it was formulaic (not to mention the published inconsistencies), I thought it was a better film.
Maybe I should just stay away from biopics of 'performers' ;)
I found the beginning of Beverly Garland's drunken scene on YouTube. It's a shame it's only the first couple of minutes; the whole scene actually lasts for much longer. She's at a ladies lunch meeting.
But it's at least a sample of how she takes it over.
(She's referring to her husband, who is a masseuse who 'takes care of' his many female clients, and she knows it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSzobg9k7g
I still don't know how to make a clickable link, so...cut 'n paste away.
Well, whaddya know. It is clickable.
I'm getting way off topic here, but it occurs to me that there was an actress in both Pretty Poison AND The Mad Room who deserves major kudos. Beverly Garland.
An excellent character actress who was only in a few scenes in both films (actually, only two in The Mad Room). But when she was on screen, you couldn't take your eyes off of her.
I actually saw The Mad Room in the theater on first release, but it was second fiddle to another thriller/suspense film, 'Daddy's Gone A-Hunting'. Which for the time was a word-of-mouth hit and a different kind of suspense movie.
In Garland's second, longer scene, the audience was completely silent. But she played a drunk, and where her monologue called for audience laughter, she got it.
The movie was well reviewed (some critics said "Anthony Perkins has his best role since Psycho")
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I have Pretty Poison on DVD and watch it occasionally. I'm fond of lesser-known thrillers (I also have The Mad Room with great performances by Stella Stevens and Shelley Winters).
To me, Anthony Perkins may have given his best performance since Psycho because he basically just played Norman Bates again. And then just kept playing him (Murder on the Orient Express, anyone?)
It was Tuesday Weld who was really the stand out. One of HER best performances, despite the fact that I've read on several sites that she and the director didn't get along at all.