![]() ![]() After all, getting those mixed emotions out of people required, at first, not only master director Alfred Hitchcock but an unforgettable performance by Anthony Perkins as Norman. (One, long since debunked: that a house in Kent was the basis for the Bates home.)īut any new Normans rest on the shoulders of the old one. ![]() There are roots in real-life horror, and rumors in abundance. It follows the original movie, three sequels, director Gus Van Sant’s re-creation of the original film, at least one documentary, several books about the movie, and an old Bates Motel TV-series pilot in which a young man inherited the motel from Norman. (Highmore hits a distinctly Perkins-ish note of sheepishness.) The series blends touches of teen drama, suspense and one extremely violent scene with some big questions about where the show is going and some familiar tropes from previous Normans. Is it all just about mother issues? And, because of those issues, is Norman less horrifying - or more, a Freudian nightmare on the loose? Is his evil inexplicable - and is it really evil at all? What on earth made Norman Norman? … Our emotions about him are very mixed.”īecause so many people still want to understand Norman Bates - to see why he again and again turned to murder - people keep going back to Bates-ics. Film critic Geoff Andrew, on the British Film Institute site, says that even while seeing Norman as a monster, “we want him to get away with it. An American Film Institute poll a decade ago named him the second greatest villain in the movies, behind only Hannibal Lecter, and the scene in the 1960 movie in which Norman slashes Marion Crane to death is the foundation of countless horror films.īut, like Lecter, Norman invited a complicated response from audiences. Norman Bates, according to the man who played him four times, was the Hamlet of horror roles. ![]()
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