Actually, Norman Bates is Nothing But existential crisis.
But, Mario, you are absolutely correct, the novel is superior to the film(s, though the second film of PSYCHO is a travesty)...PSYCHO II the novel somewhat better than the PSCYHO II the film, with which it shares little, and PSYCHO HOUSE is the worst of Bloch's novels, the only one I'd say doesn't really repay the reading (the further sequels, like the PSYCHO remake, are not really worth the effort either).
Todd Mason
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Steve Novak <Cinefrog@...> wrote:
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> Bien dit....precisely...it is a mecanism in which all the cogwheels are
> defined and set...crazies included...none of these characters are
> questioning, themselves, existence, raison d¹être...they act along their own
> set and since there is a strong plot it creates tension in the viewer...but
> nothing in these characters is disturbing, challenging, upsetting their own
> existence, their own validity...and/or ours by the same token...and nothing
> in shooting style, acting (and casting), edit...leads us another way...
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> Enough...
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> Montois reaching cocktail hour...(I should say apéritif...)
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> On 7/15/09 10:47 AM, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
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> > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> > "Jeff Vorzimmer" <jvorzimmer@> wrote:
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> >>> > > Steve, I agree with you. The movie Psycho is not noir. The Bloch book is
> >>> not noir either. It's a horror thriller (!). By the way, the book is
> >>> excellent, better than the movie.
> >> >
> >> > Then nothing by Bloch would be considered noir. Do the psychotic characters
> >> somehow disqualify it from being noir?
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> > The presence of crazies per se does not disqualify a work from being noir (The
> > Killer Inside Me, and many others), but my instinct tells me that Psycho is
> > not noir. There is no existential predicament in that movie.
> >
> > mrt
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