78/52 is a 90 - hour flick about three moment . The three minutes or so , constitute of 52 cuts shoot with 78 exercise set - ups , that make up the shower view in Alfred Hitchcock ’s classic repugnance thriller psychotic . The film is solely about breaking down the vista ’s genius and importance , and it get the term “ recondite dive ” to a whole new level .
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Using the testimony of experts , movie maker , and the people who were there , managing director Alexandre Philippe beautifully shows how the 78 set - ups combine with 52 cuts ( hence the form of address of the moving-picture show ) changed film account constantly .
It starts with the basics — why Hitchcock made the film and his thought buy the farm into it — and then presents Psycho in the diachronic and social circumstance of the prison term . Philippe talks to people who were at the premiere who explain how Hitchcock used psychotic person to change how films are exhibited . ( They do n’t say it outright , but it may have been the beginning of the “ spoiler . ” ) He blab out to Janet Leigh ’s eubstance double , who was there for filming , and she confirms several longstanding rumors about the production along with some new secrets . Film historians explain how the scene change picture going onward . Famous editors and composers watch the shot and geek out about the option Hitchcock , his editor in chief George Tomasini , and composer Bernard Herrmann make with every single shot .
78/52 also goes into Hitchcock ’s adumbration of the scene , both in this film as well as others . The documentary explores the thematic reason behind its execution . It represent Saul Bass ’ original storyboards , and expose that the legendary artist was called in specifically to design this one sequence . Then , of course , the motion-picture show goes shot by conscientious shot to examine everything about them .
All the while , archival interviews with Hitchcock himself , as well as some surviving house appendage , give 78/52 an telling authority , corroborate some of the claims being made in the infotainment by the likes of Guillermo del Toro , Elijah Wood , Eli Roth , Jamie Lee Curtis , and many , many more .
It ’s so in - astuteness , and so nerdy , that it ’s aboveboard kind of glorious . Not everything present in the film is young , but it ’s unbelievably exciting to see something like this on the vainglorious sieve — a film about the office of movie , expertly and fine assembled .
Due to its immense level of detail , 78/52 is not for everyone . Obviously , unless the idea of hearing mass talk for an hour and a half about a undivided second of a movie sounds good to you , it ’s probably best for you to bide forth . But if you want to learn everything imaginable about what is arguably the most influential three minute second in cinema history , then this is utterly a flick you should see .
- chastening : The article originally had an incorrect definition of the film ’s title . It has been corrected .
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