The jacket has wide, padded shoulders, a single vent, two-button cuffs, a welted breast pocket, and flapped pockets positioned straight along each hip. At 6’2″, Anthony Perkins has the height to effectively balance a three-button jacket, but Norman wears the jacket more insouciantly than flatteringly, the notch lapels turned up by the collar in the back. No matter its color, the jacket is made from a pinwale corduroy (also known as “needlecord”) with three dark woven leather buttons. At first, I’d thought these trousers to be part of a matching suit given the single-breasted corduroy jacket that Norman wears for his introduction, though the jacket appears to be a shade darker than the trousers, with some color photography even suggesting that the jacket is gray. When he’s feeling most like himself, Norman cycles through a rotation of comfortable and timelines menswear staples, always anchored by a light cotton button-down collar shirt with roomy corduroy trousers. (In fact, there’s even a disturbing amount of Letterboxd reviewers who frequently comment on their attraction to Norman Bates… which we can just chalk up to Perkins’ screen presence.) Norman Bates’ unassuming yet upright manner of dress helps soften his image, presenting him as an affable-if somewhat anxious-young man, not lacking charm as he gives Marion Crane a self-deprecating tour of her room, allowing his seemingly offhand mention of “the stationery with Bates Motel printed on it in case you want to make you friends back home feel envious” distract from the fact that her room shares a wall-with a little hole drilled into it-with his un-officious parlor and its various taxidermy. Panicked after a confrontation with a California Highway Patrol officer on the Golden State Highway outside Gorman, newly minted thief Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) gives herself a crash course in perfecting a getaway by swapping out her black four-year-old Ford for a newer white sedan and getting back on the road and planning to register at a motel-of course, using an alias-after sleeping in her car attracted the unwanted police attention in the first place.Ī curious set photo depicting a scene that doesn’t quite represent the Psycho we know… could Anthony Perkins’ gray jacket be the same corduroy jacket Norman wears when Marion arrives at the Bates Motel?
#NORMAN BATES MOVIE#
Psycho defied convention in many ways, from being the first mainstream movie to present a toilet flushing to the surprising dispatch of its top-billed protagonist by the end of its first act… and in the shower, no less!
#NORMAN BATES CODE#
Bates barking off camera, perhaps lampshading the restrictions of the infamous Motion Picture Production Code that Hitch so delightfully flouted. “I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me!” we hear the infamous Mrs. It forever changed the lives of its stars, Janet Leigh paying for her Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win with a newly instilled lifelong fear of showers (which she would share with many of the film’s audience!) Anthony Perkins established his still-burgeoning image to be forever associated with Norman Bates, the creepy killer inspired by the real-life Ed Gein, a mother-obsessed body snatcher who murdered at least two women in his small Wisconsin hometown. Though controversial at the time for its unyielding depictions of murder and sexuality, Psycho earned four Academy Award nominations and broke box-office records around the world.
#NORMAN BATES SERIES#
To satisfy Paramount’s demands-as well as to explore his own curiosity-Hitch agreed to make the film on a low-budget, in black-and-white, using his crew from the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Paramount Pictures had already balked at the controversial content, but the Master of Suspense was convinced he needed to make Psycho after Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel of the same name was brought to his attention by long-time assistant Peggy Robertson.
Hitch had intentionally departed from his then-established style of high-budget thrillers of major stars in glamorous location, exemplified by To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, and North by Northwest.
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960) VitalsĪnthony Perkins as Norman Bates, mother-obsessed motel proprietor and amateur bird taxidermistĬostume Designer: Rita Riggs ( uncredited)Īlfred Hitchcock would probably find some dark humor in choosing Mother’s Day to focus on Psycho, the story of a young man’s complicated relationship with his mother.
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