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Originally posted by hulkamaniak
i mean if that exact movie was made now exactly the same, it would be very lowly rated, is it just the fact that it is original and was good for its time?
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Of course PSYCHO would be lowly rated if some remade it exactly the same -- we even have evidence to support this, in the form of the dreadful remake by Gus Van Sant in the late 1990s.
To paraphrase Pierre Menard, the beknighted author in the Jorge Luise Borges story "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote:"
"To film PSYCHO at the beginning of the 1960s was a reasonable, necessary, and perhaps inevitable undertaking; at the beginning of the 21st century it is almost impossible. It is not in vain the 56 years have passed, charged with the most complex happenings -- among them, to mention only one, that same PSYCHO."
In other words, the very existence of a 1960 PSYCHO makes the concept of a subsequent PSYCHO almost unthinkable, because all the techniques, style and surprises have been used -- exhausted.