Friday, October 12, 2007

Close-up Blogathon: anatomy in a murder

PSY1
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PSY2

  • Prompted by Matt at The House Next Door, the Close-Up Blogathon leads me back to sometime in the mid-1960s when, not yet ten-years-old, I was momentarily held spellbound by Hitchcock, a knife, and one of my favorite areas of female anatomy. Cue the strings.

    • posted by Ray Young at 6:40 AM

    4 Comments:

    Blogger Tim Lucas said...

    Excellent choice, FH. You should have dedicated this posting to all those observers who claim that the cutting in the PSYCHO shower murder is so effective because it feels like a knife attack, even though "at no time do we ever see a knife actually coming into contact with the woman's body."

    9:17 PM EST  
    Blogger Chet Mellema said...

    Short but sweet...Hitchcock was certainly a master of the close-up.

    9:26 PM EST  
    Blogger Flickhead said...

    Thanks, gents.

    Tim, I think the first time I read the "no contact" claim was about thirty years ago, yet the image of the knife and the stomach always stuck out.

    Unless I'm not savvy about cutlery, the front of that blade has been sawed off to look like it's penetrating.

    Chet, I'd never visited your blog before. The "five for Friday" idea is pretty cool! I'll add you to my links today!

    6:25 AM EST  
    Blogger Tim Lucas said...

    The abdomen you see in the photo looks convincingly warm-blooded but is actually fashioned of wax, as has been reported elsewhere -- possibly in Steve Rebello's book on the making of the film. Hitchcock. The knife is definitely cutting into it.

    3:52 PM EST  

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