Norman Bates
Fictional Character
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Times Online | November 19, 2009
Coronation Street; Confessions of a Traffic Warden; Can We Get Married?
...confrontation and fight, Roy Cropper, who can't swim, disappeared into the canal's murky depths where the ghost of Hillman - "Norman Bates with a briefcase" - resides. To be fair on Tony, having to watch the stoic, reproachful figure of...
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PopMatters | November 04, 2009
Great by Greatness: Alfred Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' 50th Anniversay Edition (1959): Blu-ray (Short Ends and Leader)
...in Hitchcock's Psycho has become woven into our pop cultural backdrop, but it's the "dinner scene" that shines a narrow light on the character of Norman Bates. If I had to pinpoint one reason for Rebecca's prestige it is precisely this: the...
In this article: North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Ernest Lehman, Blu-ray, Martin Landau, and DVD
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New York Post | November 01, 2009
Cobain's best concert
...in the annals of rock. Rolled onstage in a wheelchair, he wore a frizzy blond wig and a hospital patient's gown, looking like Norman Bates from "Psycho. " Bassist Krist Novoselic, meanwhile, fueled whispers in the crowd by saying,...
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Pounding the Rock | October 31, 2009
Game Preview #3: Sacramento Kings @ San Antonio Spurs - Scare Tactics
...force them to play well? One guy named Alfred Hitchcock might know: If Pop asks me what costume he should wear for tonight's game, I'd say Norman Bates. He's already got the suit rocking and I have every goddam reason to believe he's also...
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New Kerala | October 28, 2009
Hitchcock's Psycho shower music named scariest movie theme tune
...scene is the scariest movie theme tune, according to a new survey. The tune, composed by Bernard Hermann, reaches a crescendo when Norman Bates kills Marion (Janet Leigh) to death, which leaves her blood to pour down the plughole. It...
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Kansas City Star | October 28, 2009
Vince Vaughn is a star, but he's not invincible
...small-town lawyer. </p><p><strong>5. He’s afraid to be the bad guy. </strong>Granted, critics were none too kind after the Norman Bates fiasco of Gus Van Sant’s remake of “Psycho,” but one misstep is no reason to stop...
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The Seattle Times | October 27, 2009
Big screen, big chills: Join Seattle Symphony for 'Psycho'
...(Janet Leigh), takes flight from her job and life with a stolen bundle of cash, ending up at a failing motel run by an affable if erratic Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Without spoiling the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, it's safe to...
In this article: Psycho, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Hitchcock, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, and Halloween
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Northern Star | October 22, 2009
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...and checks in to the Bates Motel for a night. She never checks out. Anthony Perkins delivers an absolutely perfect performance as Norman Bates in this Alfred Hitchcock classic, and Janet Leigh shows us where her daughter got her famous scream...
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Let's talk about scary movies
...grab from the grave in "Carrie"! Janet Leigh in the shower! You tell me . . . ) The image that stays with me to this day is of Norman Bates running down the stairs at the end of Psycho. Something about his stare and the way he... Posted...
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One of Those Faces You Can’t Help Believing: Anthony Perkins in Psycho (Feature)
Paramount; US theatrical: 16 Jun 1960; UK theatrical: 4 Aug 1960; 1960) "We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?" innkeeper Norman Bates asks on-the-lam secretary Marion Crane with a boyish grin in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic,...
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Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho. The character is based on real-life serial killer Ed Gein. == Fictional character biography ==
Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severe emotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live alone together in an unhealthy state of emotional dependence after the death of Bates's father. When Bates is a teenager, his mother takes a lover, making him insanely jealous. Bates then murders both of them with strychnine and preserves his mother's corpse. Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, assuming his mother's personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of murdering her. He inherits his mother's house, where he keeps her corpse, and the family motel in Fairvale, California.
Bloch sums up Bates' multiple personalities in his stylistic form of puns: "Norman", a child dependent on his mother; "Norma", a possessive mother who kills anyone who threatens the illusion of her existence; and "Normal", a (barely) functional adult who performs the functions of day-to-day life.
Bates is finally arrested after he murders a young woman named Mary Crane (called Marion Crane in the film) and Milton Arbogast, a private investigator sent to look for her. Bates is declared insane and sent to an institution, where the "mother" personality completely takes hold; he essentially becomes his mother.
Bates dies in Bloch's 1982 sequel to his novel.
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