Psycho is considered one of the most influential films of all time, and the iconic shower scene appears at the very top of the charts of the most infamous film shots in the history of the seventh art. The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, spent a week filming the scene, which is just under 3 minutes long and contains more than 40 cuts and 77 camera angles. Check out other details from the filming of this unforgettable scene where Janet Leigh naked screamed in the shower in 1960.
Famous filmmaker Arnold Hitchcock he recorded many movie classics, which went down in film history with golden letters. And if we were to judge the greatness of the film by its influence and groundbreakingness, it would low-budget Psycho was among the largest. Although the film could have been in color, Hitchcock decided to black and white technique, because otherwise the scene in the shower, which he whitewashed so beautifully the moaning of violins by the composer Bernard Herrmann, it would not have passed under the censorship of the time.
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Famous prizer, which was initially planned without a musical background, inspired editing style of Russian film artists, and some things around him remain shrouded in mystery even today. Like this one, or is it Leight performed the entire scene herself or her doppelgänger recorded the part. However, the urban myth that she was for a bigger one has already been disproved the authenticity of the cry the actress takes a cold shower during filming.
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