The world according to Sir Alfred:
Hitchcock’s iconic horror film Psycho was supposed to be a comedy
I rather suspect it was the master being tongue-in-double-cheek. Just consider the course of the flick until one gets to the motel. Any tee hees?
Now “North by Northwest” does have that cheek fully puffed out.
Next we’re going to be told that the Obama presidency is an elaborate send-up by The Onion.
Funny that the prior post to this one referes to “Family Research Council President Tony Perkins”
No tee-hees. Plenty of raptors, though. The film is full of ’em.
PS:
“I was lyin’ in my bed when I heard somethin’ jerkin’
There stood Rita lookin’ just like Tony Perkins”
— Bob Dylan, “Motorpsycho Nightmare”
I will always fantasize what the hottest broad in Hollywood looked like if only they’d lowered that damned camera just a bit more in the shower scene!
Though, in 1960,that would have been completely unacceptable,except to us boys.