Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Vince Vaughn, William H. Macy
Other mistake: When Marion Crane trades cars she drives off the used car lot with California license plates on her newly purchased vehicle. The dealer should have transferred her old Arizona license plates to the new car.
Other mistake: In the scene where Bates leaves her motel room to back her car up to the door, he doesn't use keys to start the car.
Visible crew/equipment: When Marion is dead, you can see the camera panning back reflected in her eyes.
Milton Arbogast: Oh, someone has seen her, all right. Someone always sees a girl with $400,000.
Trivia: When Arbogast enters Norman's house and scans his surroundings there is a statue of an angel casting a shadow that resembles someone stabbing.
Question: When private investigator Milton Arbogast is attacked on the stairway, this film inserts two non sequitur pieces of footage right in the middle of the attack sequence: Just as Arbogast's face is slashed twice, a shot of a virtually-nude woman wearing a sleep-mask is inserted for a split-second, followed a moment later by a split-second insert of what appears to be a small calf standing in the middle of a road in a rainstorm. What is the meaning of those two inserts?
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Answer: His life flashing before his eyes? Snapshots of Norman's fractured psyche? The director's vision?
Alan Keddie
Those are just more questions.
Charles Austin Miller