Intertextuality is the shaping of a texts' meanings by other texts, it essentially means authors and/or movie directors borrowing and transforming features from other authors and movie directors which had used those features in the past. This could include directors using similar camera angles, editing techniques diegetic and non-diegetic sounds and features of mise en-scene.
Intertextuality can be seen in many films of today. Film directors such as Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock have come up with incredible features in films which have been used in many recent films. One example of this is Alfred Hitchcocks "Psycho". This film used many features that had never been seen before and that are still being used today. Adrian Lyne used some of these features in his film "Fatal attraction". In the scene when Dan and Alex are fighting in the bathroom bits from the shower scene in Psycho are used, for example the curtain falling on Dan is similar to Marion pulling the curtain as she falls, also the tap continuing to run is similar to the shower being left running after Marion is killed.
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