There are minor differences in the screenplay and the script. The first difference is between the first shot of the old house standing against the sky and the next shot of Lila. In the script the directions given are for a close up shot when in the actual screenplay it is a full length shot of Lila. Further on, there is another change right after the shot of the house and the porch. Lila stops and does not glance back to the house, she just goes straight up to the door and goes in.
Hitchcock put a lot of planning into writing of the script and the filming of the story. To do this the director could possibly have thought it out mentally, then possibly acted it out himself for the screenplay to work and look correct and natural behind the camera. …show more content…
Motifs, images and names referring to birds are everywhere in the film. The film begins in Phoenix, Arizona and a Phoenix is a mythological bird. Marion's last name is "Crane’ which is also a type of bird and Norman practices taxidermy as a hobby only on birds. Norman then goes on to describe Marion's eating behaviour as "eats like a bird." This statement also foreshadows that she will become his victim like the birds he stuffs. When he is within the mind of Norma Bates he also refers to himself as ‘as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.’
Both scenes in the hotel room when Marion is packing her bags and when Norman is cleaning up after Marion’s murder contain the newspaper. The newspaper solves as the item that connects the two characters unknowingly to each other. Marion packs her bags and hides the stolen money in the newspaper and in the next scene Norman finds the newspaper but not the money in it and throws it into the boot of the car along with Marion. The Newspaper is in two scenes where both characters are cleaning up and trying to hide something. Norman is trying to hide the body and Marion is trying to hide the …show more content…
Both scenes are done in which the character is cleaning up and trying to hide something. Norman is trying to hide the body and Marion is trying to hide the money. Marion is unsuccessful when hiding the money in the newspaper as Norman discovers it when he is cleaning up the hotel room after Marion’s murder. Both scenes come one after the other and both scenes depict the characters as cleaning and hiding things in a very calm and ordered way and both take measured movements and chronological steps. However, when Marion is hiding the money and packing her bags she appears to do so in a guilt ridden manner and because of this the audience watching her are also made to feel guilty. In the next few scenes when Norman cleans up after Marion’s murder the audience watch and feel uncomfortable. In contrast to Marion, Norman’s method of cleaning up is not guilt ridden but is very calm and