Episode 101: Psycho

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Psycho's expert filmmaking, its control of information through character point-of-view, and what exactly—if anything—Hitchcock was trying to say.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.4	Today we are talking about Psycho, the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on the novel by Robert Block.
0:22.6	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:25.6	Hello, everyone.
0:26.7	Brian Bittner.
0:27.8	Hello, Mother.
0:28.8	And Alex Gallinas.
0:30.5	Hi.
0:31.8	Okay, so we're talking about Psycho.
0:34.0	It's October.
0:34.9	It's Spooktober.
0:36.0	And so we've been wanting to talk about this movie also for a long time. So it's like, let's do it. Let's make this happen. And no one's ever talked about this movie before. So I think we're going to have a lot of original insights.
0:48.1	It's one of those obscure Hitchcock from his lesser known filmography, yeah. Right, exactly.
1:01.4	But yeah, so I remember not remembering the first time I saw this movie.
1:04.9	Like, it's one of those movies where I just feel like I've always seen it.
1:06.3	Like, I've always known of it.
1:11.8	And I think it was one of those that very early on, my dad set me down when he was like, you're going to learn about movies. And here's 2001. And one of those that very early on my dad set me down when he was like you're going to learn about movies and here's 2001 and one of them was psycho and you know regaling me with the stories of
1:19.0	when it came out people were fainting in the theaters and scream and people left the theater
1:23.9	screaming and so like it had that kind of you, the storied history around it while watching it.
1:30.8	And also, it's like psycho.
1:33.0	It's this really good movie that does crazy things that somehow still work.
1:39.9	You know, it's famous for killing off the protagonist halfway through the movie.
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