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Not so much because the criticisms lobbed at P98 (as I shall now call it) now seem incorrect or overly harsh, but just that Van SantРІР‚в„ўs bonkers goal at least seems interesting by comparison to what followed. The best thing that ever happened to Van SantРІР‚в„ўs Psycho was Platinum Dunes and the rest of the 00РІР‚в„ўs remake bender. Then, just a handful of years later, fans and cinefiles alike raged about remakes in which filmmakers arbitrarily changed everything, showing zero regard for what made the original film good/popular in the first place. In 1998 fans and cinefiles alike foamed at the mouth over what they felt was Gus Van SantРІР‚в„ўs borderline malevolent logic in creating a remake which slavishly changed nothing from the original film. No one likes getting older, but one of the few pleasurable aspects of surviving through the passage of time is seeing how much context colors anything and everything.

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Then a huge twist punches us in the face! Spoiler alert: Norman Bates was Keyser Soze all along! And Keyser Soze was dead the whole time and didnРІР‚в„ўt even know it! Plus Darth Vader is Luke SkywalkerРІР‚в„ўs dad, soylent green is made out of people, and Sean Bean dies. Ditto for when MarionРІР‚в„ўs sister Lila (Julianne Moore) and Sam come looking too. Um, spoiler alert? Marion all sorsta gets killed by NormanРІР‚в„ўs deranged mother and Norman is forced to cover up the crime when a persistent private detective named Milton Arbogast (William H. After stupidly attracting the attention of a highway patrolman and getting lost in a rainstorm, Marion decides to stop off for the evening at a secluded motel run by a charmingly awkward nerd, Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn), who lives alone with his ailing mother and emotionlessly masturbates while spying on customers. In a poorly thought out bid to be with her man, Marion steals $400,000 from one of her bossРІР‚в„ўs clients and makes a break for Fairvale. They must meet in hotels and motels, their love kept out of public. She lives in Pheonix, but sheРІР‚в„ўs in love with a divorced man, Sam Loomis (Viggo Mortensen), who runs a hardware store in the fictional town of Fairvale, California. Marion Crane (Anne Heche) is in a wee bit of a pickle. In honor of Gus Van SantРІР‚в„ўs decision to do a shot-for-shot remake of Alfred HitchcockРІР‚в„ўs Psycho, but now with jerking-off added, I have decided to do a word-for-word remake of my summary of Alfred HitchcockРІР‚в„ўs Psycho from the first installment of this Franchise Me series, but now with jerking-off added. We shall be checking in over night on all six Psycho installments.

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The series launched with Alfred HitchcockРІР‚в„ўs 1960 landmark adaptation of author Robert BlochРІР‚в„ўs novel of the same name, and spawned over the next 38 years three sequels, a failed TV series that was converted into a failed TV movie, and the most infamous remake in recent cinema history. The Franchise: Psycho - following the deadly legacy of the Bates Motel and its primary caretaker, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). I have donned my sweats and taken up cinemaРІР‚в„ўs gauntlet. But a champion has risen from the rabble to defend us.

And any film, no matter how seemingly stand-alone, conclusive, or inappropriate to sequel, could generate an expansive franchise. Horror, action, comedy, sci-fi, western, no genre is safe.

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