Put another set of clues together and you know something else.” Ferro’s primary contribution to the 1998 iteration (aside from fitting in all the new credits) was giving the sequence its colour.
“Put these together and now you know something. Bass originally imagined the lines as information, clues to the unfolding mystery that never quite reveal themselves. Simple lines charge across the screen in parallel, delivering pieces of type, forming credits in time to the score, and then carrying them away again in pieces. The Psycho title sequence is an exercise in tension and contrast, made all the more potent by Hermann’s frenzied main title theme. The two were frequent competitors in the worlds of advertising and film and both had worked closely with director Stanley Kubrick. Ferro, who had worked with Van Sant previously on films like To Die For and Good Will Hunting, was hired for Psycho in part because of the mutual respect that existed between he and Bass. The latter, executed by Pablo Ferro – a contemporary of Bass and title design legend in his own right – was meticulously recreated under the watchful eye of title designer Elaine Bass, Saul’s wife and collaborator of more than 40 years.Įlaine retired from the business after Saul’s passing in 1996, but returned in 1998 to ensure that one of her husband’s most revered works would be protected and preserved. Shot for shot, angle by angle, the film matches nearly every element of the original, right down to the iconic Bernard Herrmann score and Saul Bass-designed opening title sequence.
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The cast and crew of Van Sant’s Psycho may be completely different, but the movie remains Hitchcock’s film to its core. When asked why he would even attempt to remake Psycho, Van Sant simply replied “So no one else would have to.” In an era when remakes feel increasingly inevitable, that sort of pragmatism is almost admirable. Other filmmakers, such as Brian De Palma and David Fincher, have built careers on emulating or paying homage to Hitch, but Van Sant was the first director to so blatantly – and purposefully – copy the master filmmaker note for note.
Less of a remake and more a duplicate of the original Alfred Hitchcock classic, Van Sant’s Psycho is both an experiment in form and a provocation of sorts.
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Get a troubling window into the mind of a killer, cracked and split, in the opening of director Gus Van Sant's much-derided 1998 reimagining of Psycho.
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