Psycho (1998)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Anne Heche, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis:
An estate agent employee makes off with $400,000 to start a new life with her hardware store-owner boyfriend. Stopping at a motel on the way, she lives to reconsider her decision.
Review:
Straight remake, or 'cover version', of Hitchcock's film; hard to assess in its own right, unless one has not seen the original, since every set-up and every line recall it to the mind. Many critics' reaction was to question the point of redoing something that rests on surprise and deception: everyone knows what happens. And then there's the decision to do it in colour, making it all but a colourisation of a classic, with an actress who perhaps lacks Leigh's star status: is the murder as shocking? We certainly have the sight of Miss Heche's bottom this time. The cast do fine jobs, especially Vaughn, but essentially it is an interesting experiment for critics and buffs to spot the scrupulousness of the homage and the odd departure (use of flashes for the murders).
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Anne Heche, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis:
An estate agent employee makes off with $400,000 to start a new life with her hardware store-owner boyfriend. Stopping at a motel on the way, she lives to reconsider her decision.
Review:
Straight remake, or 'cover version', of Hitchcock's film; hard to assess in its own right, unless one has not seen the original, since every set-up and every line recall it to the mind. Many critics' reaction was to question the point of redoing something that rests on surprise and deception: everyone knows what happens. And then there's the decision to do it in colour, making it all but a colourisation of a classic, with an actress who perhaps lacks Leigh's star status: is the murder as shocking? We certainly have the sight of Miss Heche's bottom this time. The cast do fine jobs, especially Vaughn, but essentially it is an interesting experiment for critics and buffs to spot the scrupulousness of the homage and the odd departure (use of flashes for the murders).
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Anne Heche, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis:
An estate agent employee makes off with $400,000 to start a new life with her hardware store-owner boyfriend. Stopping at a motel on the way, she lives to reconsider her decision.
Review:
Straight remake, or 'cover version', of Hitchcock's film; hard to assess in its own right, unless one has not seen the original, since every set-up and every line recall it to the mind. Many critics' reaction was to question the point of redoing something that rests on surprise and deception: everyone knows what happens. And then there's the decision to do it in colour, making it all but a colourisation of a classic, with an actress who perhaps lacks Leigh's star status: is the murder as shocking? We certainly have the sight of Miss Heche's bottom this time. The cast do fine jobs, especially Vaughn, but essentially it is an interesting experiment for critics and buffs to spot the scrupulousness of the homage and the odd departure (use of flashes for the murders).