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Plot Summary:
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In Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic, young female bank employee Marion Crane steals money from her boss in Phoenix, flees town, and arrives at Fairvale, California's rundown Bates Motel, which has secrets of its own. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $60,000,000
- Revenue:
- $37,100,000
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Color Info:
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Color (DeLuxe)
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm
- Shooting Dates:
- 06 Jul 1998 - ?
- Production Dates:
- Jul 1998 - Oct 1998
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Trivia:
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- A sign for the Bates Motel reads "Newly Renovated."
- The exterior motel set was the same one used in the original Psycho. However, the house was a new set constructed directly in front of the old house on the backlot at Universal Studios. On completion of filming, they moved this second house alongside the first for the backlot tour.
- Viggo Mortensen starred in another Hitchcock remake the same year, A Perfect Murder. In both movies he is the female protagonist's lover, begins the first scene of each film in bed with her, and is involved in a crime involving an identical amount of $400,000.
- The new house and motel sets were constructed directly in front of the original sets.
- When Norman Bates cleans the bathroom, the blood on the shower wall has disappeared. This copies a continuity error in the original.
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Credits Fun:
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- If you look closely at the swamp after the end credits, the water turns red, obviously to blood.
- Thanks to John Woo for use of his kitchen knife.
- The logo for Imagine drips in blood instead of water.
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