--- Richard Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Watching Psycho recently, I became intrigued as to
> why we are treated to
> subtitles placing the opening scene - Marion's
> assignation with Sam Loomis in a
> Phoenix hotel room - but no other scene is nailed
> down in such a documentary
> realist fashion.
[....]
> Richard
Hello,
I have no answer to that question, but the same goes
for Hitchcock´s Notorious, where we even get to know
the exact point of time and date.
Considering "Psycho": just a guess, maybe it has
something to do with the date of the theatrical
premiere of the film (I don´t know when it took place)
to construct a sense of here and now (well, just like
movies work, in contrast to the "past time"-narrative
of literature).
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