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The scene with the CHP officer looking in her car window illustrates the weakness in the role. And Heche doesn't project anxiety the way Leigh did. And Heche is younger than Leigh, who brought to her fruitless attempt to marry and settle down, the desperation of a woman facing forty. What does the word "credit" mean? How can we credit Van Sandt and his associates with anything except deciding to use different actors, slightly different sets, and color? Anne Heche is attractive but lacks Janet Leigh's stolid determination to become a respectable middle-class woman. You can't watch it without the 1960 film nudging into your consciousness.
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This is, per se, an above average film but why in the name of Bog was it made? It's impossible to treat it as a thing unto itself because it is an almost shot-for-shot remake of an Alfred Hitchcock classic of 1960.
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And in many cases the mood or atmosphere created through black and white cinematography is just not attainable in colour. With the background muted, the story and performances are that much more front and center. When they do they'll discover that sometimes black and white works far better. Hopefully they'll mature sometime in the future and no longer require shiny colours to hold their attention. As for viewers who can't watch black and white - it's their loss. As a side note, I feel that Hollywood's propensity for re-making great movies because 'young' people refuse to watch anything that's not filmed in color not only stinks to high heaven of corporate greed but is exceptionally disrespectful to the original work.
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While it was a pointless re-make to begin with, the miscasting of the story's most important character sucks this film down completely. He lacks the frail look of Perkins and his acting chops are clearly inferior as well, at least in this role (honestly - has there ever been an actor who could convey nervousness as genuinely as Anthony Perkins?).
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Whereas Anthony Perkins looked like someone you would never think of as being a serial killer, Vince Vaughn is easily imaginable as one. That's why this re-make does not work, even a little bit, in spite of trying to be an exact copy. Audiences were taken by surprise to put it mildly. Which is exactly why the casting of him as Norman Bates was a slice of true Hitchcockian genius. He was not an actor who had portrayed baddies before this nor was he physically suited to the role of what the public might have imagined a psychopath to look like, especially in the 50's when this ultra-chilling aspect of mental illness (split personality psychosis) was relatively unexplored in film. He projected a kind of clean-cut innocence: a young teen-idol type of persona. Hitchcock's original classic benefited tremendously not only from the performance of, but also the 'look' of Anthony Perkins. Van Sant? Maybe, in the words of President Clinton, because he could. So, here I am, bad mouthing the work of one of my idols. Viggo is a superb actor but in this case he couldn't make us forget John Gavin and if Julianne Moore had been introduced to the world through this performance there wouldn't have been any "The Hours" for her, "The Minutes" maybe. What was Vince Vaughn doing? Was it a parody? A bad joke? What the hell was it? Anne Heche as Janet Leigh? Who dressed her? Viggo Mortensen with a cowboy hat. The color was jarring, the performances, atrocious. A shot by shot massacre of one of the perennial classics. Van Sant's "Psycho" however, gives me pause.
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Their names make me switch on the TV, go to a video store or even buy a ticket and go to a movie theater. Idiosyncratic, infuriating some times, but consistent, surprising, unpredictable. Steven Sodebergh, PT Anderson, Tim Hunter, Danny Boyle, Martin Donovan, Harmony Korine, Wes Anderson. Yes, why? Among the filmmakers that came out in the 80's and 90's Gus Van Sant is one of my idols.