Daily Dialogue — August 25, 2010

Norma Bates: No! I tell you no! I won’t have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds! 
Norman Bates: Mother, please…! 
Norma Bates: And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers? 
Norman Bates: Mother, she’s just a stranger. She’s hungry, and it’s raining out! 
Norma Bates: “Mother, she’s just a stranger”! As if men don’t desire strangers! As if… ohh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she’ll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with MY food… or my son! Or do I have tell her because you don’t have the guts! Huh, boy? You have the guts, boy? 
Norman Bates: Shut up! Shut up!

 — Norma and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), Psycho (1960), screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on a novel by Robert Bloch

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is characters talking out loud to themselves, suggested by Greg Colburn.

Trivia: In the opening scene, Marion Crane is wearing a white bra because Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show her as being “angelic”. After she has taken the money, the following scene has her in a black bra because now she has done something wrong and evil. Similarly, before she steals the money, she has a white purse; after she’s stolen the money, her purse is black.