that old corpse had quite a mouth full of horse teeth
Did you see that old corpse ...she had all.her teeth, no dentures, lol. No fillings or gold teeth and the teeth looked like they were from Mr Ed.
shareDid you see that old corpse ...she had all.her teeth, no dentures, lol. No fillings or gold teeth and the teeth looked like they were from Mr Ed.
When we die and our gums shrink and recede, we're ALL going to look like Mr. Ed ! 🐴
You have that to look forward to.
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Hitchcock did have that "skull face" designed according to some input from doctors at "the University" (UCLA, maybe?) to reflect a woman who had been dead ten years but preserved a bit.
I've always like that Mrs. Bates when we finally see her is NOT a skull...all fully dusted white bone. She's still got a lot of skin tightly wrapped to her face, some hair coming out of her head(or is THAT a wig, too?).
And those teeth, which allow her to "grin and laugh as us"(via Herrmann's delirious music and the swinging light bulb that brings her eyes to life)...
...and which superimpose directly over Norman's closed lipped leer at the end to give HIM teeth.
"He stole her corpse...even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep."
When Norman "treated" Mrs. Bates' corpse, it seems to have been closer to mummification than taxidermy: desiccated rather than stuffed.
Poe! You are...avenged!
He stole her corpse...even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep."
When Norman "treated" Mrs. Bates' corpse, it seems to have been closer to mummification than taxidermy: desiccated rather than stuffed.
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Interesting point. One wonders what an "expert" taxidermist could have done with Mother. Kept her looking like Vera Farmiga for ten years?
"But seriously folks": one realizes here the challenge posed to Hitchcock in "creating Mrs. Bates." What SHOULD that corpse look like?
We are told that various model heads were built...and put in Janet Leigh's dressing room each day. The head that got her loudest scream was the final choice.
I don't believe that story.
I do expect that ONE head was placed in her dressing room on ONE day ...and the rest is Hollywood ballyhoo.
"The one head version" is one of the better scenes in the movie "Hitchcock," btw.