Psyco (1960)

The third film i studied in my media class was a 1960 film with a mixture of Thriller/Horror genre.  This film was massively successesful at the time it first came out due to its incredible variety of shot rotations which made this Thriller/Horror more effective, this was not common at the time, it was of a new era completely changing the way of filming.

Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh. The screenplay by Joseph Stefano is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.

Storyline: The Macguffin

The Macguffin is what the audience believes at first to be the highlight of the film. It is the frame around in which the real purpose of the film is structured, this is what keeps the film going and engaging as it surprises the audience at a later stage as they release the actual important aspects in the film. This is present in Psycho as the audience believes that the character Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is believed to be the main character and the main plot of the story was how/what was going to happen to her and the money she stole from a bank, where was she going to go?, who would find out?; these where some of the main questions the audience considered to be important aspects in the film, at this early stage there was the believe that this woman character Marion Crane was who the whole film would  involve around, whereas she actaully isnt as we find out at a later stage in the film what the real purpose of the film is based upon and about.

Plot
This film is about a young woman called Marion Crane with a younger sister called Vera Miles and a boyfriend who she loved but refuses to marry her called John Gavin. Marion Crane steals $40,000 from her employer's client at her work and doesnt tell anyone about it, she then runs aways with this large amount of money with the feeling the gult and constant suspision that she is being followed/ watched in hope to not get court she even changes her car, she leaves the town and then reaches her final destiniation as she arrives at a motel which leads to the death of her as the young motel proprietor's is a physcopath influence by his mother.



As Vera Miles and John gavin discover that shes missing the stotry then becomes a murder investiavtion as they and an instector try to findout who murdered her, at this stage this then becomes the main pourpose of the film as the audinece first thinks that the killer was the young motel proprietor's mother when really it was the physopathic young man.