Bates Motel Season Final Season Trailer: "Lookin' Like the Hitchcock"
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Psycho
ecarle — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 08:10 PM)
As a very diehard fan of the 1960 Psycho and what it meant to my life over oh, a few decades, I am very pleased to see "Bates Motel" doing so well as a cable serieseven as from my check-ins on the series, it really didn't have much interest in telling the story Hitchcock told in 1960, or in the setting he told it(rural backwater California, not the coast ofOregon?) or with the characters of Hitchcock's film.
Evidently, that's all about to changesomewhat.
Behold the quite long teaser trailer for Bates Motel Season Five the final season. (Per usual, I can't provide the link.) I guess I shouldn't spoil it, but suffice it to say that the Hitchcock version is finally coming into view. Just done for 2017.
They aren't in the trailer(that I could see) but recent press releases have confirmed something old ( we will have a new Marion Crane) and announced something new ( a new Sam Loomis.) Casting has been announced for both Marion (Rhianna) and Sam(a Walking Dead actor) and a new characterization of Sam Loomis has been handed out that doesn't quite fit the old John Gavin model (or the Viggo Mortensen re-do, either.)
So for The Final Season of Bates Motel, we have ourselves a Norman, a Marion, and a Sam. Can a Lila and an Arbogast be far behind? Or will they be thrown overboard for new characters? "We shall see."
I like the trailer, very much. It sounds like they are NOT going to go Van Sant with their final season, but to the extent that they are now in spittin' distance of both Hitchcock and Robert Bloch, well
I just might watch.
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nickstcloud — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 09:54 PM)
I highly suggest getting into it.
They change many things in Bates Motel. These changes definitely take time to get used to. Especially during the first few seasons. I didn't love some of the B-plot early on, but pretty much everything that occurs has a direct or indirect influence on Norma and Norman's relationship, and Norman's mental problems.
Bates has a bit more nuanced view of Norman and his mother's relationship. As you see more of the show, you understand how they became so dysfunctionally close. Both characters' motivations are complex, and you see how they begin to cope with outside stressors (of which there are many in the shady town they moved to, explaining how Norman's behavior went unnoticed for so long).
I got into the show to watch Norman's descent into madness but kept watching because of Vera Farmiga. She gave us such a rich and interesting character with Norma Bates, and she is more sympathetic to the audience than the stunning Olivia Hussey in Psycho IV.
For a long time I didn't want them to go near the events of the film, but seeing how well they did the last two seasons, I am very excited to see how they interpret the lore. The trailers are all very Psycho-esque too. -
swanstep — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 06:26 PM)
And here we go Rihanna follows Janet Leigh, Anne Heche, Marion Cotillard, et al. into the shower (with 1997 Radiohead as the clip soundtrack):
Vera Farmiga is a hell of an actress. What a triumph this series is for her. -
ecarle — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 09:24 PM)
And here we go Rihanna follows Janet Leigh, Anne Heche, Marion Cotillard, et al. into the shower (with 1997 Radiohead as the clip soundtrack):
https://youtu.be/lp-s-Vb76v8
Okwell, the shots from the original are starting to come fast and furiousand the racial change is interesting.
Vera Farmiga is a hell of an actress. What a triumph this series is for her.
She's been around a long time. I recall her in that Manchurian Candidate remake I hate, and that's 2003. She also got the juicy main female part surrounded by male stars in The Departed (2006.)
Her scary ice-blue eyes and "different" face made her career in certain ways and kept her from playing "everyday parts" in others. Nowthe role of her career. Mrs. Bates. But a Mrs. Bates so different from the 1960 model that its indeed a triumph of "new work of art from an old work of art." (How Vera bites an apple and hits the words "Buckle up, Norman!" is great line-reading snappy acting.)
I may watch this season all the way through.
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nickstcloud — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 02:42 PM)
Interestingly, Farmiga has been in several other horror/thriller type films. She twice played the mother of a disturbed child on film, in Orphan and Joshua, but her take on Norma Bates is so encompassing. The creators of the show said that they wrote the role with her in mind, so they must have had a very specific vision of who Norma Bates was.
Here is what I assume to be the final trailer of Bates Motel season five: https://youtu.be/bJtRK43cMwI