Remakes of films generally refer directly to a specific text which the audience can interpret due to their prior knowledge of others. For example films may re create a similar scene from others using similar editing styles, camera techniques and by using similar diegectic/non diegetic sound.
Alfred Hitchcocks film 'Physco' includes the famous shower scene which has had aspects and techniques borrowed on countless occasions. These include the films 'Fatal attraction', 'The Stepfather' and 'What Lies Beneath'.
We can see the Intertextuality which has been used in Fatal attraction from the original film physco. The most obvious similarity is the ending of the scenes when both victims of murder have become weaker and lean against the bath tiles and fall. The water from the tap continues through to the ending of the scene in fatal attraction which is similar to the constant flow of the shower in physco. The sound in fatal attraction is also similar as it has a steady tone throughout until the women is dying and the non diegetic sound fades to silence, this is like in physco when the non diegetic sound also fades out and their is nothing but running water to show the women is dead. The two have fast paced editing when the action is present and extreme close ups of the women when they are dying.
-Stanley Kubricks 'The shining' used this image which was captured by Diana Arbus as inspiration for one of his most famous scenes within the film. The twins in the film look very similar to those in the photograph, the matching hairstyles and clothing. The camera angle used is also similar and creates uncertainty as although they appear as harmless little girls the manner and tone of their voices say otherwise.
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