Intertextuality is a term referencing parts of other films and implementing them in other movies. This allows movies to create a similar feel for the movie and increase its chance of becoming popular by adding similar aspects of a scene from another movie in your own movie. In the movie psycho there was a famous shower scene which had distinctive aspects that proved to make the scene popular, which was copied by various other films.
Psycho:
This movie provided material for other movies to use to help create suspense and increase its chance of being sucesfull. Here are some materials from the scene which are usually referenced:
- The Knife
- The Bathroom tiles
- The Shower
- The bath
- The stabbing motion
- Dieing with back toward the wall
- Shower curtain being pulled
- Falling outside the bath.
These aspects of the scenes are famous and set the heights for thriller movies which has been used in loads of recent films as it indefinably works and is popular.
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