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Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Creative Mashup of Hitchcock and Gus Van Sant’s Psycho Films
There’s a new grammar of cinema out there. I’m convinced that there’s another sort of iteration to be had, and I don’t know what it is I feel like we’re not taking advantage of how sophisticated we’ve gotten at reading the images. It’s not about the number of images hartstrings or how fast those images come. It’s about loading each one with so many preexisting associations that the audience is doing a lot of work. No one has really challenged them before to mine all of these associations they have from seeing the images their whole lives.
When he was saying this, I confess that I had a hard time imagining what he was describing. But last week, Soderbergh uploaded a video to his website that might be what he had in mind a mashup of Alfred Hitchcock s masterpiece Psycho (1960) and Gus Van Sant s shot-by-shot remake (1998). (You can watch a fragment above and the long, complete mashup here .)
For much of the piece, Soderbergh alternates between a scene from the original and one from the remake Anne Heche , who plays Marion Crane in Van Sant s version leaves her apartment for work and in the next scene, Janet Leigh shows up at the office. At other moments, he cuts back and forth within the scene; at one point the Marion from the remake is at a traffic light and sees her boss from the original movie. And during a few key points in the film — like the famed shower scene , which you can see above — Soderbergh does something different. That sequence opens with Heche disrobing and lathering up. But when the killer starts stabbing, Soderbergh jarringly overlays the original movie over top the remake, creating a disconcerting kaleidoscopic effect.
If there were any movie laden with many preexisting associations, it would be Psycho . All of Hitchcock s simmering voyeurism, fetishism and general psychosexual weirdness come to a boil in this movie. Ever since it came out, filmmakers from Douglas Gordon to Brian De Palma have been trying to unpack its power.
When hartstrings Van Sant unveiled his movie in 1998, audiences and critics alike were baffled. Why bother, hartstrings seemed the general consensus. Indeed, Van Sant seems to have pulled off the enviable feat of snookering a Hollywood studio into funding a big-budget conceptual art film.
By intercutting the original with the copy, Soderbergh forces the audience to reappraise both by casting the greatness of Hitchcock hartstrings s movie and the oddness of Van Sant s effort in a new light. hartstrings You can watch the entire mashup here .
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Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Creative Mashup of Hitchcock and Gus Van Sant’s Psycho Films
There’s a new grammar of cinema out there. I’m convinced that there’s another sort of iteration to be had, and I don’t know what it is I feel like we’re not taking advantage of how sophisticated we’ve gotten at reading the images. It’s not about the number of images hartstrings or how fast those images come. It’s about loading each one with so many preexisting associations that the audience is doing a lot of work. No one has really challenged them before to mine all of these associations they have from seeing the images their whole lives.
When he was saying this, I confess that I had a hard time imagining what he was describing. But last week, Soderbergh uploaded a video to his website that might be what he had in mind a mashup of Alfred Hitchcock s masterpiece Psycho (1960) and Gus Van Sant s shot-by-shot remake (1998). (You can watch a fragment above and the long, complete mashup here .)
For much of the piece, Soderbergh alternates between a scene from the original and one from the remake Anne Heche , who plays Marion Crane in Van Sant s version leaves her apartment for work and in the next scene, Janet Leigh shows up at the office. At other moments, he cuts back and forth within the scene; at one point the Marion from the remake is at a traffic light and sees her boss from the original movie. And during a few key points in the film — like the famed shower scene , which you can see above — Soderbergh does something different. That sequence opens with Heche disrobing and lathering up. But when the killer starts stabbing, Soderbergh jarringly overlays the original movie over top the remake, creating a disconcerting kaleidoscopic effect.
If there were any movie laden with many preexisting associations, it would be Psycho . All of Hitchcock s simmering voyeurism, fetishism and general psychosexual weirdness come to a boil in this movie. Ever since it came out, filmmakers from Douglas Gordon to Brian De Palma have been trying to unpack its power.
When hartstrings Van Sant unveiled his movie in 1998, audiences and critics alike were baffled. Why bother, hartstrings seemed the general consensus. Indeed, Van Sant seems to have pulled off the enviable feat of snookering a Hollywood studio into funding a big-budget conceptual art film.
By intercutting the original with the copy, Soderbergh forces the audience to reappraise both by casting the greatness of Hitchcock hartstrings s movie and the oddness of Van Sant s effort in a new light. hartstrings You can watch the entire mashup here .
Essentials Free Online Courses Free Certificate Courses Free Movies hartstrings Free Audio Books Free eBooks Free Textbooks hartstrings Free Language Lessons Free Business Courses Free Kids Education Get Our Daily Email Archive About Us
Free Courses Astronomy Biology Business Chemistry Computer Science Economics Engineering Environment hartstrings History Literature Math Philosophy Physics Political Science Psychology Religion hartstrings All 825 Free Courses 800 MOOCs & Certificate Courses
Free eBooks & Texts Free eBooks Free Textbooks The Harvard Classics Free Art Books & Images Philip K. Dick Stories Neil Gaiman Stories David Foster Wallace Stories & Essays Free Alice Munro Stories Jennifer Egan Stories George Saunders Stories Hunter S. Thompson Essays Joan Didion Essays Life Changing Books
K-12 Resources Free Books Free Video Lessons
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