In the novel, they met on a cruise and only got together twice. The movie doesn’t dive into Sam and Marion’s history on how they met. In the book, we start off with Norman Bates (more on him later) arguing with his mother. Secondly, the movie starts off right away with Sam Loomis sleeping with Marion Crane. The reason for that is that production found that there were two people named Mary Crane in Phoenix, Arizona and to avoid a lawsuit, they changed the name. The first thing you are going to notice is the change in Mary Crane’s name to Marion in the movie. Let’s get the obvious differences out of the way first. If I’ve piqued your interest, read on…įair warning, there will be heavy spoilers for both the movie and the book. However, the movie does deviate a bit from the source material, and in fact, the film could have used a bit of the book’s material to help with the heavy exposition ending. For the most part, that statement is true. Alfred Hitchcock was quoted as saying that everything that is in Psycho was from the book by Robert Bloch. However, there is one thing I want to talk about, and that is, the differences between the movie and book. The film is pretty much near perfection in all regards, and there is nothing I could say that you haven’t heard a million times before. I’m not even going to pretend that I’m qualified enough to critique the masterpiece known as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
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