Psycho?

[ohiobbw]

Has anyone read the book Psycho? I have to do a 10 minutes presentation comparing Norman Bates in the movie (and it's a great movie, if you havent' see it, rent it now!) and the book (the book was ok). What I need is a picture of Ed Gein (the real killer that Norman was based on) or of someone that looks like Norman from the book (a drawing would be nice) anyone know of any websites?

 

[Willing and Unsure]

sorry.. never read it, but i have been wanting to

 

[ohiobbw]

It's a really short book, it has the same plot as the movie, but without the little things that made the movie great. But I chose this as my finally project (I already wrote a 7 page paper about it) and I'm stuck!!

 

[White_Tigress_]

here is a link

maybe this will give some information you need, along with a few pics. If not, do a search for Ed Gein in Excite.com or other search engines, it came up with quite a few.

http://www.hauntworld.com/under-enter/gein.html

I never knew the movies were based on a real killer...geez...I learn something new every day.

Good luck!

 

[Svedish_Chef]

I have plent of pictures but no scanner

 

[Mistress]

gein

 

[Mistress]

I did a search....

 

[ohiobbw]

Thanks for the pic White_Tigress_ and Mistress. I was hoping he would look more like Norman from the book!

Yep, White_Tigress_ based on a real guy, very scary. Anyone who wants info about Psycho should try Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. It has a whole chapter on Gein.

I have to do this for my english class, which is all about Hitchcock. I had to chose between Notorious, Rear Window and Psycho.

 

[ohiobbw]

Ok, this is how Norman is described in the book. He is also around 44 years old I think.

The light shone down on his plump face, reflected from his rimless glasses, bathed the pinkness from his scalp beneath the thinning sandy hair as he bent his head to resumer reading

Anyone know of an illustration of someone that looks like that?

 

[Willing and Unsure]

Hitchcock with glasses

 

[ohiobbw]

Hitchcock with glasses

Actually that sounds right!