Kathy Bates Essays

  • Psycho Movie Analysis

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    Joseph Stefano and stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, Vera Miles as Lila Crane and John Gavin as Sam Loomis. Initially, the movie received mixed reviews from the viewers but still landed four Academy Award nominations including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Kolker 56). It has been ranked as one of the greatest movies of all times and continues to influence several movies includes the television series Bates Motel, which started airing in 2013. Before this

  • Symbolism In Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

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    Ibsen is believed to be the “master” of symbolism. (Styan, 1981). In Hedda Gabler, Ibsen uses symbolism to portray the internal chaos and disorder of his protagonist. Ibsen often deals with the conflict with the internal self. (Watson, 1983) Ibsen gives a new, symbolic and deeper meaning to ordinary objects such as a room, fire, the manuscript, Thea’s hair and the pistol. Each of these objects signifies a different element of Hedda’s character. Styan discusses how these symbols are integrated with

  • The Role Of Music In Furious 7

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    Creation of any film is not a simple task involving work of many people. A great film is not only about the setting and the plot. A great film is far more about bringing the idea of the film towards the viewer and creating respective feelings. Music in the films is used to perform several functions, like establishing the mood, supports emotions, and assists to identify what is going on in the film. Music in general can manipulate one's emotions, creates respective mood, and identify people. The use

  • Comparing Kathy Bates, Passionate Kids And The Turbotax Commercial

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    Kathy Bates, creepy kids and the TurboTax commercial Different commercials contain the variety of the content. Making existing, productive as well, as an emotional commercial can cost, up to thousand, million or even billion dollars, especially in a present time. Nowadays, common attributes that the marketing merchandisers are trying to put in the advertisements involves different sorts of humor, fear, joy, fear mainly relying on a subject that needs to be sold or generally promoted at all. Commercials

  • Haiti By Kathy Acker: Summary

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    precise plot. The title says it all, Kathy goes to Haiti and does thus and so. It is essentially an itinerary of her sexual encounters as told by her heart to her brain. It 's not comfortable or nice or pretty. It 's Haiti as told by Kathy Acker. I love it. Time is not only very very slow in Haiti, but, as the Haitians tell Kathy, ' 'The people . . . are all gentle and good ' ' and ' 'There 's no violence in Haiti. Anybody can do anything they want. ' ' Kathy does, however, try to give her main

  • Wall-E: Movie Analysis

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    In the film Wall-E, both the robots and the humans are governed by a directive. The role of a directive is important in the film because it helps to guide the actions of the various robots aboard the Axiom. One of the important questions raised by the film is: What is the role of a directive in Wall-E, how does it impact the actions of the various robotic characters seen in the film, and how do the actions taken by robots in the film as a result of their directive impact the humans onboard the Axiom

  • Baudelaire: Summary

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    The setting takes place in a Hotel where Baudelaire orphans are disguised as concierge to keep their identities. The Hotel is at a tilt and everything is backwards on the outside and is reflected off a pond to reverse the effect. On the inside it is organized by the Dewey Decimal System. The pond is also a key factor in the story because many secrets about the hotel lie at the bottom. Violet Baudelaire is the oldest of the three and is very observe and inventive person. Klaus Baudelaire is the

  • Alfred Hitchcock's Techniques To Create Suspense

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    The movie Psycho by the Oscar nominated and "master of suspense" Alfred Hitchcock is by far the best suspense/thriller movie that I have ever seen. It is amazing how a movie filmed in 1960 in black and white can turn out to be better than a movie filmed with color in the twenty first century. How Alfred Hitchcock thought of ways to create suspense and infused them in the movie is truly amazing. The techniques that I saw Alfred Hitchcock use to create suspense in Psycho were different camera shots

  • Psycho Movie Psychology

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    Alfred Hitchcock keeps you on the edge of your seat, using over 30 different camera angles, dramatic music, black and white and a host of different characters such as Marion Crane a blond beauty who doesn't know the meaning of the work Risk, Norman Bates a socially awkward man who has a thing for birds, Sam Loomis a divorced man who has a thing with Marion Crane. Winning two awards for best motion picture, a Golden Globe for best supporting actress going to Janet Leigh, and having four different Oscar

  • How Does Hitchcock Present Schizophrenia In The Movie Psycho

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    use of characters, with the double-sided Norman Bates in particular, and visual techniques as well as sound techniques. The ideas of murder and schizophrenia were presented well in the movie "psycho" through the use of characters. The character of Norman Bates was the central character in the film and had a complex and differing personality. One moment he was shy, kind, lonely Norman Bates, a mother's boy, and the next he was a deadly jealous Mrs. Bates, his deceased mother. This was because he was

  • Bates Motel: Old Film By Name Of Psycho

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    Bates Motel is a fictional TV show that is based off of an old film by the name of Psycho. In the series Bates Motel there is a character by the name of Norman Bates. Norman Bates is an 18 year old, shy boy who has a lot of psychological issues, and a very close bond with his mother. Norman first resides somewhere in Arizona with his mother and father. He ends up murdering his father in defense of his mother. Norman and his mother then move to the White Pine Bay after the death his father, to try

  • The Film Psycho 1960 And Directed By Alfred Hitchcock

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    The film Psycho was made in 1960, and directed by the infamous Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock has made many other successful films including Vertigo, Rear Window, and North by Northwest. Psycho stars Janet Leigh, the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis. In addition, Anthony Perkins is featured as the adversary in this film. Psycho is classified as a horror movie set in 1960’s Arizona. When watching this movie, many things can leave the audience on the edge of their seats. In the beginning the main character

  • Alfred Hitchcock Psycho

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” setting took place in Phoenix, Arizona around the year 1960. Hitchcock took a stand by leading the film industry into a direction that would alter the course of filming forever as “Psycho” is ranked one of the best films of all time! Hitchcock did this to get the audience uncomfortable and scared he did this to himself too while putting what scared him most into his own movie. Before the filming began not everyone agreed with the way the movie was making out and how

  • Norman Bates Case

    1185 Words  | 5 Pages

    Norman Bates. Bates is a 22-year-old male who was born October 14, 1995. He lives in White Pine, Oregon currently. Bates had moved to White Pine with his mother Norma, when an accident involving Bates had killed his father. Bates has one half-brother, Dylan Bates who has not been present for a majority of Bates childhood. Recently he moved back into the house after his mother and brother moved away from Arizona. The Bates family bought a motel as a family when they moved to White Pine. Bates has decided

  • Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

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    This article is analyzing Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho, in particular its main character: Norman Bates and his connection to the Cold War. We have seen some sexual perversion and scenes of violence in Hitchcock’s previous movies, where he used Sigmund Freud’s concept of psychoanalysis to explain the acts committed. The characters had to make conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations to released repressed emotions and experiences. This concept will be seen again in Psycho with Norman

  • Fear In Film: Psycho Directed By Alfred Hitchcock

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    Fear in Film: Psycho Psycho is a 1960 American horror thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which was based on a novel that was inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer and grave robber Ed Gein. Deming explains how the movie Psycho differentiates from other movies while including a specific scene he thought was greatly done; he states his opinion of how suspenseful movies are supposed to be specific terms Deming uses throughout his review were, " acceptable, battle, palpable, tension, frightening

  • Elements Of The Heroic Journey In The Film Psycho

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    slightly odd demeanor; that is Norman Bates. As aforementioned in the previous paragraph, Bates had been suffering from a condition known as split-personality disorder. This condition caused his overbearing mother to assume control of himself, whilst Norman Bates’ personality had been overtaken. At the courthouse, the psychiatrist reveals that Norma Bates had now fully assumed Norman’s physical body. That is, Norman’s personality no longer existed as Norma Bates vicariously existed in his body. At

  • Alfred Hitchcock Suspense Analysis

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    film industry choice of using black and white photography film music he used throughout use of camera to lead the narration lack of dialogue in many scenes use of his plot - $40,000 theft is only a small part of the film but begins the story Normam bates character (duality) hints early on of his two indenittites - you never see them together except when he carries her down to the cellar and that is a bird’s eye shot the conversation revealing Norman’s mother’s death 10 years ago the fact that Norman

  • Difference Between Sam's And Arbogast

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    When Sam and Lila scheme to the Bates Motel to examine both Marion’s and Arbogast’s disappearances. Hitchcock offers the audience with more parallels, with the same interaction of discovering. As Lila starts to search Normans home, Hitchcock conveniently places Sam and Norman in the room with wishful thinking. Sam who lawfully gained Marion’s liking is poised and reputable in contrast to Norman, whose timorous environmental and sexual repression in the part Lilia’s investigate of his bedroom. The

  • Psycho: Duality In Shadows And Taxdermy Birds

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    the presence of omniscient shadows and menacing birds of prey, the presence of a vindictive and vengeful entity in the parlour scene especially foreshadows duality. This entity is representative of the inner darkness that possess and controls Norman Bates throughout the duration of my film, known as Mother. In the parlour scene, the contrast between the predatory birds and the passive birds draws a striking contrast between the nature of Norman and Mother, where the predatory birds frame Norman in the