Beauty vs Beast: Motel Hell
Monday, July 6, 2015 at 3:31PM JA from MNPP here, wishing you all a happy Monday and wishing what would have been a happy 88th birthday to the great, sadly passed Janet Leigh. She's been gone for over a decade but Janet's legacy still looms tall with several classics -- Touch of Evil and The Manchurian Candidate both come to mind -- but as it has been said we all go a little mad sometimes and color me mad when I realized that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho has somehow never found itself "Beauty vs Beast"-itized. It's a prime pick whose time has come! Slap on your favorite wig and let's play!
PREVIOUSLY This weekend Terminator: Genisys flopped box-office-wise and according to your votes maybe they should've thought about bringing Linda Hamilton along for the ride since her Sarah Connor trounced Full Metal Arnold in our face-off taking just under 80% of the vote. Said SusanP:
"As far as I'm concerned no contest -- Sarah Connor in a walk. Plus, when you list her pros you are neglecting her most important/awesome assets: The Arms "
Reader Comments (11)
I've voted for Marion, if only for her ultimate fashion sense: matching her undergarments to the state of her conscience.
I'm sorry but this movie belongs to Anthony Perkins. He totally embodies the character and seared an image into the public consciousness. Where was his Oscar nomination for that?
Janet Leigh is a marvel in this and it wouldn't work without her act one tragedy BUT Norman makes that part work and also carries the rest of a masterpiece, so Norman it is.
Many years ago I went to Roddy McDowell's beach house for a party that a friend of mine was invited to ... there were many stars of the time present.but Anthony Perkins sat in the corner smoking fanatically talking to no one... when he finally stood, I looked over at him and realized he was one of the most beautiful men I had ever seen ... In person he was much more manly looking ... I am not gay, but he was very beguiling just looking at him.
Anthony Perkins is great and all, but only Janet Leigh's Marion got to bed John Gavin, so I'd say that despite her watery demise, she still comes out ahead.
Preach @Carlos & denny.
Anyone who scores with John Gavin got my pick.
I think Rick needs his own guest column.
#TeamNorman because he knows what he wants. He just can't have it because of other people and other problems and other scenes and other secrets, but he knows what he wants.
Marion's current lead is shocking to me. Norman is iconic. Perkins as Norman is iconic. Without his extreme creepiness, the movie would really just be about a pretty woman who gets killed naked in a bathtub. (So, basically, a Law & Order SVU episode.)
The moment I will always vote for Norman: when the car is sinking and stops for a second, the camera cuts back to his face and we, as the audience, are actively rooting for the car to start sinking for him again. I have never seen a performance so endearingly creepy as Perkins in that film.
Anthony Perkins was egregiously snubbed of an Oscar nomination. He puts the dis in dysfunction. I would vote for Norman, but since, as Simon Oakland states so eloquently in the denouement, he is not ever all Norman, but often he was all mother. So I guess I have to vote for Mom.
Dissenting opinion: Nobody rocks a cross-your-heart bra like Janet Leigh.
ramma -- you're so correct.
evan -- lol