Bloch plays with the notion that any one of us could be as crazy as Norman, that our notions of reality could be just as skewed and distorted. Psycho . Psycho Novel Review By Kage on 2019-05-23 • ( 3). Marion wants her life with Sam to begin in earnest, not continue to stall, and she's growing just a bit impatient. Excited About "Lovecraft Country"? Book vs Movie: American Psycho . In the book Lila has gone to Dallas, but even in the film she says she went off Friday morning to Tucson, so she wouldn't have been there, so no reason why she couldn't meet with Sam in her own flat presumably). Still, Bloch's novel contains aspects not seen in the film that make it a worthwhile read, specifically Norman's interest in metaphysics and the occult, an interesting aspect absent from Stef and Hitch's take on the narrative. Book Vs Movie "Psycho" (1960) The Margos are here Mother, and we are going to talk about Psycho whether she likes it or not! Best Thriller/Psycho movies. Stef and Hitch, on the other hand, ratchet up the difficulty of this mad escape attempt by demonstrating just how much Marion hasn't thought her plan through. Much of the dialogue in the book was kept the same way in the film, but there were a couple of differences between the two. That being said, I will say that watching Psycho is generally a more enjoyable experience than reading the book because of the work Stef and Hitch did on both Marion and Norman, making them far more likable and empathetic—specifically with Marion, whose motives are far more nuanced and rooted in love rather than tradition, and with Norman, who breaks the confines of the typical, undesirable "mama's boy" and becomes something more complex and sinister, rather than simply DANGEROUS in all-caps. We all know what happens from there—except, if you've never read the book, you'd be unaware that in addition to being stabbed multiple times in the shower, Mary also has her head cut off. Book Norman's appearance, coupled with his sad, isolated life and blind devotion to his mother elicits scorn and a certain mean-spiritedness in Mary. Listen to this episode to hear us talk about the novel & film while we decide which we like better. This time it is the famous Hitchcock film Psycho and the novel it was based upon. Both were excellent. Let acclaimed horror author Ania Ahlborn show you how it's done. Very good article, I love comparing book and film. Tyson and Jones will face off in California on November 28. Saved by Tiffany Stewart. If it wasn't for that factor, I would've avoided the movie … The main story between the two is more or less the same, but Stef and Hitch made enough changes with the characters that the film takes on a life of its own. Bloch isn't exactly up to the same narrative tricks as Stefano and Hitch, as he opens his novel with Norman, not Marion (again, in the novel, she's called Mary). Mary still burns to marry Sam (hindered from doing so by the same financial woes as in the film), but she doesn't seem to burn with desire for him, the way Marion does in the film. Tags: film patrick book. When Marion agrees to have dinner with him, she does so because he appears so harmless and one hundred percent non-sexual. They only show us a boy in a man's body who will do anything to protect his mentally ill mother. Any one of us might make the same decision and decide to run away with four Gs in cash in a Robin Hood-like gesture of justice, and a miracle solution to our personal woes. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V imagines a British empire under totalitarian rule. Home › Fiction › Horror › Psycho Novel Review. https://www.patreon.com/bookversusmovie, Book Vs. Movie podcast https://www.facebook.com/bookversusmovie/, Twitter @bookversusmovie www.bookversusmovie.com, Email us at bookversusmoviepodcast@gmail.com, Brought to you by Audible.com You can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R, Margo D. @BrooklynFitChik www.brooklynfitchick.com brooklynfitchick@gmail.com, Margo P. @ShesNachoMama https://coloniabook.weebly.com/. Yes, he committed horrible acts (more of which than we know, since his killing appears to predate the confines of the narrative), but at the same time, can it really be said he actually murdered all those people? As you say, in the book Mary and Sam live hundreds of miles apart, have had very little contact with each other - it's barely more than a pen friend style relationship - and he works very hard to pay off his debts. In which there is another Books vs. Movies review. Mother is convinced that her nasty son was merely a character in a dream, a boy who in reality died a long time ago. The fight will be available on Pay Per View and video-streaming app Triller. Films are more interesting than books. May 29, 2012 - Fishpond Australia, American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisBuy . I am a Brooklyn-based health and fitness Blogger who teaches indoor cycling, core training and bootcamp. Death of the author and all, but Ellis have stated that he prefers it to be ambiguous. It earned $3,238,400 in its opening weekend and went on to gross about $14,481,606 at the domestic box office, becoming the lowest-grossing theatrical film of the Psycho movie franchise. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy young man in his mid-20s. In the film he has travelled down to Phoenix to see her, but they meet in a hotel room (why? Bloch's original depiction of Marion isn't quite as sympathetic. In both film and book, we can completely sympathize with this woman, treated like a "common whore" and expected to feel impressed and/or turned on by this repulsive man's wealth, while at the same time her true love has nothing. They met each other on a cruise roughly a year prior (Stef and Hitch leave the length of their relationship unspoken), and at the end of their week-long romance, they decide to get married—and after, she goes back to Ft. Worth, and he to his little hick town which, while never said outright, seems to be in either east Kansas or West Missouri. Norman Bates in book & movie forms are discussed here as the Margos talk about the Robert Bloch novel versus the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece. The book is way deeper and better than the movie. As in the film she lives with her younger sister Lila. Read Victor LaValle's "The Ballad Of Black Tom" First, Why The Punisher Has No Place In The Police Department, Trying to Juggle Writing AND Parenting? In addition to LitReactor, he has also written for Ranker.com, Cultured Vultures and Tor.com. But thanks to Mary Harron's adaptation, the story's violence gets toned down considerably. Eventually, Bateman comes along an older gay man walking his dog. Psycho is one of my all time favourite movies, so I was curious too see how close the movie which was adapted only a year after the book was release is. I have scen many psycho movies for free on Terrarium TV app. Despite the irresistibly juicy way it’s written, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho offers a thorough, careful examination of every step of the pre-production, production and post-production aspects of film creation. 20 discussion posts. In the book you get way more involved emotionnaly and closer to Mary. It’s good – I’d recommend it. The most interesting was the way Hitchcock sets up his viewers to empathise with the victim, Mary/Marion, as much as possible, whilst also moving away from the cliché of Norman being a chubby-loser. But there are also page-to-screen adaptations that fall somewhere in the middle—the essential bones and general characterizations are left intact, but enough little alterations are made to distinguish book and film as separate entities. Audience: The Shining and Room 237, "It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers" Edited by Joshua Viola, Four Reasons Hulu Executives Were Fools To Cancel “High Fidelity”, "The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones. Psycho II Critics Consensus. Just how conscious was Norman when his hand brought the knife down? How Do We Go On Writing Our Little Fictions When Outside The World Is On Fire? They don't show Norman taking perverse delight in such a grotesque image. Again, if you've seen the film (and I'll warn you of spoilers here, even though I may not have to, though I also get to say, shame on you for having not seen Psycho yet) you know that Marion (played by Janet Leigh) is the star up until about the halfway mark, at which point she is murdered by Norman Bates, disguised as his long-dead mother. Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is easily one of the most brutal and graphic novels ever written. The Movie The movie, however, is a That's certainly true of Game of Thrones, which is both faithful and not unfaithful, but perhaps not always monogamous, to George R.R. It really is more about aligning with what is proper and expected of a decent lady, as well as the notion that a woman must be married before a certain age. A Psychiatrist … So let's dive right in and look at the differences between Norman and Mary/Marion. Books online: American Psycho, 2006, Fishpond.com.au When Norman "goes dark" at the mention of putting his mother in a home, it's a genuinely shocking moment for the first-time viewer, because prior to this moment he didn't seem capable of being so angry, and eloquent in his ire to boot. Writing believable villains that elevate your fiction from cliché to unforgettable is a lot harder. and a little guilty of pirating. The Margos are here Mother, and we are going to talk about Psycho whether she likes it or not! Be sure to leave a like a subscribe, and follow us on Twitter! As the grandiose psychiatrist states at the end of the film, "it was Mother who killed the girl" (paraphrased). Enter your email, and you'll get the latest Brooklyn Fit Chick updates and tips. Music by Kevin MacLeod, ... Books vs. Movies Review: Psycho vs. Psycho bandgeek8408. As with the film, Norman becomes Norma by the end of the tale, the dominant "Mother" side of his personality taking control of the body. Add/Edit a Difference. Norman as Bloch writes him is thoroughly unlikable. And while Sam Loomis and Lila Crane—Mary/Marion's fiancée and sister, respectively—are important characters in their own right, the changes made to Mary (the least of which changing her name to Marion) and Norman Bates offer the most significant departures from the source material and, thus, establish the film as an individual with its own existence apart from Bloch's work. Writing villains is easy. Some interesting differences in the storytelling, aren’t there! Now, it is her arrival at Bates Motel that reveal's Mary/Marion's true character, and offers us a brief segue into the very different depictions of Norman. All rights reserved. Today marks the release of the Wachowski brothers' new film, V for Vendetta.