Intertexuality

Intertexuality is a term to describe the visual refrencing between films. It simply is films 'borrowing' things from each other and we as an audience notice these things such as certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene and snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films.

As a class we watched a clip from the film 'Pyscho' and after we watched one clip from each of these films: What Lies Beneath, Fatal Attraction, The Stepfather and Succubus ( Student thriller). Whilst watching these clips we analysed what aspects have been 'borrowed' from the clip 'Pyscho'.

                           

 In the clip of 'What Lies Beneath' the husband tries to drown his paralysed wife. There has been aspects that has been borrowed from PYSCHO such as the shower head, it is the same round one, the victim in the scene is a female just like in PSYCHO. The shower curtain, white bath tub and tiles also is the same aswell as the sound of the shower is the same. Here are screen grabs showing the same shower heads from both of the clips.


                                                     

Pyscho

What Lies Beneath
 

In the clip of ' Fatal Attraction' the pyscho blonde women is trying to kill her lovers wife. There are also aspects that has been borrowed from PYSCHO like the knife that was used to kill the victim, the white bath and white tiles. They has identical curtains and bathrobe. When the psycho women is shot we see her sliding down tiles, this has also been borrowed from the clip in PSYCHO. Here are some screen grabs showing the shot of them sliding down the tiles.                                                 

                                    

Pyscho

Fatal Attraction

                                    

In this clip of ' The Stepfather' the pyscho boyfriend tries to kill his girlfriend however he does not succeed, instead the girlfriend picks up an piece from the broke mirror and puts it through his throat. The aspects thats has been borrowed in this clip from the clip PSYCHO are the curtains being pulled down, they also had the same knife and just like the others they also had white bath, tiles and curtains. We have noticed aswell that the staircase scene has been borrowed from the clip in 'What Lies Beneath'. Here are some screen grabs of the shot of the curtains being pulled down.

                                                         

Pyshco

The Stepfather