Props:
Knife - The simple kitchen knife became a complete nightmare thanks to Psycho's shower scene and has forever been used in other films as a pastiche of the film, such as in Scream (Craven, 1996), and so is a must for this scene. One, like the knife shown below, is the ideal style of knife that I will use, as it is large and so will be the focal point of the shot in which the knife is brought up during each stab.
Costume:
Norma Bates: Norma Bates is designed to be the classic over-protective mother, although we later find out she is dead, and this is reflected in her costume. Even during the shower scene the audience are never allowed to see a great deal of Norma, mainly to avoid the huge final spoiler, however when we reach the finale of the film we see much more, with the shot of Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates in full costume wielding the knife in the cellar scene. However for my production of "Arbogast Meets Mother" the costume will be different from the old night gown and the grey fraying wig, as in modern films older women do not tend to wear clothing in the same style that was seen in the original Psycho, and so the costume will more likely be some form of baggy t-shirt and jeans, with a wig that is less grey.
Milton Arbogast: Arbogast is, as Hitchcock said, "smug, glib, tenacious, slightly dull" (Rebello, 1998) and this needs to be emulated within his costume, and a suit fits this perfectly, as it is a sign of authority yet still has a hint of the everyman too.
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