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.
Psycho (1998)
1 other mistake
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Vince Vaughn, William H. Macy
Revealing mistake: As a homage to the original; when Norman carries Marion's dead body, wrapped in the shower curtain to the car, you can see her bra strap through the curtain.
Norman Bates: Dirty night.
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