{"id":9659,"date":"2014-02-22T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2014-02-17T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:39:16","slug":"alfred-hitchcock-or-saul-bass-who-directed-the-psycho-shower-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9659","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Hitchcock or Saul Bass: Who Directed the &#8220;Psycho&#8221; Shower Scene?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z022214psycho_storyboards.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"946\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who directed the <em><strong>Psycho<\/strong><\/em> shower scene?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most folks would say, &#8220;<strong>Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong>&#8221; since<strong> Hitchcock<\/strong> is the director credited with directing <em><strong>Psycho<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Add to the fact that <strong>Hitchcock<\/strong> says he directed the scene and it would seem like case closed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ah, but things are seldom that easy, are they?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You see <strong>Hitchcock<\/strong> hired <strong>Saul Bass<\/strong>, the famous graphic artist, to storyboard the shower scene. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And<\/span><strong> Bass<\/strong> was on the set for the seven days it took to shoot the scene. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And<\/span> <strong>Bass<\/strong> claims he directed the scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Vashi Nedomansky<\/strong> lays out a case to show that whether or not <strong>Bass<\/strong> directed the scene&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;it\u2019s quite clear that the Saul Bass storyboards were followed explicitly to create the indelible images that made this spectacular scene.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Nedomansky&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/vashivisuals.com\/directed-shower-scene-psycho\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Who Directed the PSYCHO Shower Scene?<\/strong><\/a> should be required reading for all movie fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well done, <strong>Vashi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who directed the Psycho shower scene? Most folks would say, &#8220;Alfred Hitchcock&#8221; since Hitchcock is the director credited with directing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19679,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions\/19679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}