That's right. That's what he does. He's such an evil, pathetically losing murderous little freak. After he killed his mom, he adopted her voice and personality. However, I forever naturally know this movie totally fictional, not real. Norman also looks so stupid in that old lady wig and dress, lol.
That mother's voice was only in Norman's imagination so only Norman could hear what he was muttering about. Yes, Marion heard his two voices and that was the reason why Marion asked him because he was talking to himself. That was explained before the end of the movie has ended. So creepy. Great crime scene indeed.
@Antrillias, the voice of Mother is a sound mix of several actresses saying the lines, like what @Kristina wrote. Several different people, both male and female, dressed up as Mother when she was to appear, too. Having several women voice Mother and several people stand in for her physically made her all the more eerie throughout the film.
Jeanette Nolan often appeared with husband John Mclntire in such prestigious radio series as The March of Time, in which she often portrayed First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. But perhaps Nolan's most enduring portrayal is as the off-screen voice of Norman Bates' mother in Psycho.
Good quality for a tv recording. One of my favorite thrillers. Probably my favorite thriller movie of all time. I can't handle the birds. It's too much. But this is such a brilliant movie. I love everything about it. In my opinion, and probably a lot of people's, Alfred Hitchcock's best movie.
Well, the main thing is to keep the camera still. For some reason, when someone records on a tv they can't figure out to keep the damn camera still. And yeah I've always liked this movie too. Anthony Perkins has always been a great actor.
What do you mean with its too much? I got terrified with psycho, is birds even scarier? Dude, Im shocked with how good psycho is. Its 2 am and I have no clue how am I going to sleep hahaha
The way she stands there...she's kind of messing with his mind a bit: it IS a bit suggestive. And he IS awfully cute. The smirk before she closes the door is a tell too.
Case Southerland my grandmother, recently deceased because of Covid. She was 'like' Bate's mother. She was my only family. I loved her with all my heart but she had a devastatingly weird control over me. She would ball out any girlfriend from university I brought home. Openly goading me into admitting I'd never settle down because she was the only 'person' in my life that mattered and make me say it in front of them. It's hardly like I was physically intimidated by her obviously. However she had a 'hold' over me that's almost impossible to describe. When she became infirm I agreed to live with her and be her carer, whilst trying to maintain a career and personal life. I loved her with all my heart, but she was a very controlling and hateful person. I remember being outside a restaurant with friends and being non intimidated by two knife wielding thug morons, and then my friends seeing me cow in fear at my grandmother because I'd come home late. They were all shocked at my nonchalance with the attempted mugging, and then BEYOND shocked how terrified I was of my grandmother when I returned to the house. 'You're not afraid to get stabbed our hearts were pounding, but you're petrified of this little old woman???" Psychology is fascinating. For whatever reason from childhood she was just able to control me. I remember working on christmas eve and her phoning the office shouting at the Muslim owner 'this is a christian country he shouldn't be working today!!!' Needless to say before being warned not to 'walk off' the classes, I was about to leave immediately. Life's strange
I dunno how his mother was able to take control of half his mind or how he was able to use her actual voice, but I guess that’s part of why Hitchcock was called the master of suspense
Sounds to me like they recorded the voices separate then put them together. I mean it would be hard to change your voice back and forth that fast. Makes it all that more convincing. Love the movie and this scene! Pretty good considering it was recorded from a TV. I've seen that house taking the Universal Studio tour ride. They drove us by it. (couldn't get out and walk around it dangit). The house from the back is devoid of anything and is obviously only a prop.
I feel genuinely bad for Norman. He's torturing himself in his own mind with no way to stop it or to escape it. Like how he said he's "in his own personal trap" but it's gotten to the point to where it's corrupted his mind and made itself in-escapable. I know I shouldn't feel bad for a literally serial killer but he can't really control what "mother" does. As explained in the end of Psycho and an explanation from Bates himself in Pyscho 2(some what, also spoilers for both films), he always blacks out when "mother" takes over, or that's how he feels. He's not mentally there and that's what sucks about his situation. I was actually so glad that, instead of spending his entire life for a crime he basically didn't do, we find out in Pyscho 2 that he was sent to a mental institution.
Are there any fans of this movie that actually think that the mother's voice in this scene and a second scene on the stairwell sound any different than the 3rd and final scene with the mother's voice in the jail cell? Wikipedia actually claims (falsely, in my educated opinion) that this scene here and that second scene from above the stairwell had two additional voice-overs (Paul Jasmin and Jeanette Nolan) "blended together"(?!) with the same actress who's the only one I can detect in all three scenes as Mother- Virginia Gregg. I think the confusion arose because it was supposed to be Hitchcock's initial plan to use three actors so that it was a more mysterious, enigmatic voice. At least that idea sounded good, in theory. But Virginia Gregg made such a chilling impact in her voice-over performance that she was clearly the best and ultimately the only voice used. To those who still believe Wikipedia's muddled information.
this is just my take on it. now let's assume norman is 25-26 in this movie. the novel describes male mid 20s. let's pretend norma had him (we know in later movies that its the sister that's the real mother to norman or at least that's what she claims) so at 20-25 range. so if she didn't get killed by norman all those years ago she's be ... maybe 50 as of 1960 assuming the movie takes place the same year it came out. a woman born 1910 that much of a prude or norman's imagination of how much a prude his mother would've been. but we do learn in psycho IV that norma was very much against her son having any kind of sexual feelings or urges reprimanding him of having that underwear catalog or having a erection when norma and norman were "play wrestling" but we could just assume that she didn't want her son to have "ssexual arousals" around her and just limited to her son only. because we learn later on in that film she had relations with a man she met.... so normans' imagination of his mother is ... interesting.
If Norman is a two characters person , sometimes turned to be his mother and sometimes turned back to his own identity, why his voice became an old lady voice?
I think you’re right about that. But I think in his mind his “mother” was the one who hated these women and that’s why he dressed as his mother when he murdered them
What's really creepy is imagining Norman carrying on that conversation with himself speaking in his mother voice
That's right. That's what he does. He's such an evil, pathetically losing murderous little freak. After he killed his mom, he adopted her voice and personality. However, I forever naturally know this movie totally fictional, not real. Norman also looks so stupid in that old lady wig and dress, lol.
Private Girl I heard it’s semi based of a true story, or the idea is from a true story
@@ellie_3523 yes, the butcher of Plainfield Wisconsin, Ed Gein....1957.
Ed was a very deranged person, with an overbearing mother. A real-life ghoul. His story is very disturbing, not the best for bedtime reading.
Mike Gibson Yeah I was listening to a podcast about him but only got up to the brothers death since I had stuff to do
Wow, norman is really good at mimicking his mothers voice
That mother's voice was only in Norman's imagination so only Norman could hear what he was muttering about. Yes, Marion heard his two voices and that was the reason why Marion asked him because he was talking to himself. That was explained before the end of the movie has ended.
So creepy. Great crime scene indeed.
If i was at that Motel and i heard That going on! I Would have been out of there as soon as he stopped talking
@@wildberriniangirl3211that's not at all true 😂
'My mother's not quite herself today.' Yep...
Iconic
Neither are you, Norman. Neither are you.
Yes Norman, because she’s you
Love how 'Mother' just mocks him - 'Mother, she's just a stranger!'. LOL
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mother always had me laughing
Mother that sailor suit doesn't fit anymore!
I think we should go?
They must be loud because she can hear them from there. Like really loud.
xD ikr
She's thinking, "And I thought I had problems."
She really did lol
That sounds too much like a real old lady voice
that's what so creepy
The person casted to do Norma’s voice was a woman called Virginia Gregg
@@7MatthewJames Jeanette Nolan too. Not sure whos voice is where in the film
I can do Bette Davis without ruining my cords.
It’s so incredible just how timeless this movie is!
Bernard Herrmann music for this film is beyond perfect 🚿🎼🗡
how can he get the old lady voice spot on like that - thats creepy in itself
Oh, I don't think it was his voice. There were several actresses involved in filming Norma Bates' voice (that's what I read at least)
@Antrillias, the voice of Mother is a sound mix of several actresses saying the lines, like what @Kristina wrote. Several different people, both male and female, dressed up as Mother when she was to appear, too. Having several women voice Mother and several people stand in for her physically made her all the more eerie throughout the film.
@@Kristina2360 See my comment above, as a longtime fan and movie history buff.
Norma bates was based on real life inspiration from Augusta Gein. That is horrifically Scary.
Jeanette Nolan often appeared with husband John Mclntire in such prestigious radio
series as The March of Time, in which she often portrayed First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt. But perhaps Nolan's most enduring portrayal is as the off-screen voice of
Norman Bates' mother in Psycho.
"Eating in the office is too officious"
Good quality for a tv recording. One of my favorite thrillers. Probably my favorite thriller movie of all time. I can't handle the birds. It's too much. But this is such a brilliant movie. I love everything about it. In my opinion, and probably a lot of people's, Alfred Hitchcock's best movie.
Well, the main thing is to keep the camera still. For some reason, when someone records on a tv they can't figure out to keep the damn camera still. And yeah I've always liked this movie too. Anthony Perkins has always been a great actor.
The Birds - LOLOL!
Its considered his best by critics
Long Live The Wang nah that’s Vertigo
What do you mean with its too much? I got terrified with psycho, is birds even scarier? Dude, Im shocked with how good psycho is. Its 2 am and I have no clue how am I going to sleep hahaha
The way she stands there...she's kind of messing with his mind a bit: it IS a bit suggestive. And he IS awfully cute. The smirk before she closes the door is a tell too.
One of most best movie ever!
‘That sailor suit doesn’t fit anymore!’
Boy! When I first saw that scene, I felt very sorry for Norman. Even my mom isn't that strict about me hanging around female friends.
Case Southerland my grandmother, recently deceased because of Covid. She was 'like' Bate's mother. She was my only family. I loved her with all my heart but she had a devastatingly weird control over me. She would ball out any girlfriend from university I brought home. Openly goading me into admitting I'd never settle down because she was the only 'person' in my life that mattered and make me say it in front of them. It's hardly like I was physically intimidated by her obviously. However she had a 'hold' over me that's almost impossible to describe. When she became infirm I agreed to live with her and be her carer, whilst trying to maintain a career and personal life. I loved her with all my heart, but she was a very controlling and hateful person. I remember being outside a restaurant with friends and being non intimidated by two knife wielding thug morons, and then my friends seeing me cow in fear at my grandmother because I'd come home late. They were all shocked at my nonchalance with the attempted mugging, and then BEYOND shocked how terrified I was of my grandmother when I returned to the house. 'You're not afraid to get stabbed our hearts were pounding, but you're petrified of this little old woman???" Psychology is fascinating. For whatever reason from childhood she was just able to control me. I remember working on christmas eve and her phoning the office shouting at the Muslim owner 'this is a christian country he shouldn't be working today!!!' Needless to say before being warned not to 'walk off' the classes, I was about to leave immediately. Life's strange
That's one pissed off grandma lol
All this "wow he mimicked his mother's voice SO WELL!" Y'all cant possibly know if that was really how Norma Bates talked.
I find it hilarious how everybody in the comment section 'casually' mentions Norman being the one doing both voices as if we don't all already know!
I dunno how his mother was able to take control of half his mind or how he was able to use her actual voice, but I guess that’s part of why Hitchcock was called the master of suspense
"NO! i tell you *NO*!"
Sounds to me like they recorded the voices separate then put them together. I mean it would be hard to change your voice back and forth that fast. Makes it all that more convincing. Love the movie and this scene! Pretty good considering it was recorded from a TV. I've seen that house taking the Universal Studio tour ride. They drove us by it. (couldn't get out and walk around it dangit). The house from the back is devoid of anything and is obviously only a prop.
It's not Anthony Perkin's voice doing Mother. Mother's voice actually belongs to actress Virginia Gregg.
@@Bebe7077 I did not know that. Now it all makes sense. She has the perfect voice for Mother!
@@Bebe7077 Yes! - She also had audio roles in radio programs before the advent of TV programming as witches.
I feel genuinely bad for Norman. He's torturing himself in his own mind with no way to stop it or to escape it. Like how he said he's "in his own personal trap" but it's gotten to the point to where it's corrupted his mind and made itself in-escapable. I know I shouldn't feel bad for a literally serial killer but he can't really control what "mother" does. As explained in the end of Psycho and an explanation from Bates himself in Pyscho 2(some what, also spoilers for both films), he always blacks out when "mother" takes over, or that's how he feels. He's not mentally there and that's what sucks about his situation. I was actually so glad that, instead of spending his entire life for a crime he basically didn't do, we find out in Pyscho 2 that he was sent to a mental institution.
This whole thing is just plain sad
The description for this video is hilarious
When you get into an argument with yourself and somehow loose
Good quality. I like hitchcocks movies. There r alot of remakes
Too bad anthony perkins is dead
I played Norman in my own remake of psycho back in 2002.
Are there any fans of this movie that actually think that the mother's voice in this scene and a second scene on the stairwell sound any different than the 3rd and final scene with the mother's voice in the jail cell? Wikipedia actually claims (falsely, in my educated opinion) that this scene here and that second scene from above the stairwell had two additional voice-overs (Paul Jasmin and Jeanette Nolan) "blended together"(?!) with the same actress who's the only one I can detect in all three scenes as Mother- Virginia Gregg. I think the confusion arose because it was supposed to be Hitchcock's initial plan to use three actors so that it was a more mysterious, enigmatic voice. At least that idea sounded good, in theory. But Virginia Gregg made such a chilling impact in her voice-over performance that she was clearly the best and ultimately the only voice used. To those who still believe Wikipedia's muddled information.
You tell her Norman. 👍
Sounds like he's talking to someone
duh
It's his mom that he's talking to
BrilovesKurtHummel Briones hes talking to himself as mother
I need somebody goodlooking like her 😍 to come hang out with me and 'my' mom 😆 👍
this is just my take on it. now let's assume norman is 25-26 in this movie. the novel describes male mid 20s.
let's pretend norma had him (we know in later movies that its the sister that's the real mother to norman or at least that's what she claims) so at 20-25 range. so if she didn't get killed by norman all those years ago she's be ... maybe 50 as of 1960 assuming the movie takes place the same year it came out.
a woman born 1910 that much of a prude or norman's imagination of how much a prude his mother would've been. but we do learn in psycho IV that norma was very much against her son having any kind of sexual feelings or urges reprimanding him of having that underwear catalog or having a erection when norma and norman were "play wrestling" but we could just assume that she didn't want her son to have "ssexual arousals" around her and just limited to her son only. because we learn later on in that film she had relations with a man she met.... so normans' imagination of his mother is ... interesting.
So Norman really did kill his mother.
Yes
Duh
No, I was just piecing it together, though I've not seen this film.
Sheriff Chambers: "Strychnine. Ugly way to die." Norman killed both his mother and her new boyfriend-- in bed.
Lol, dont get old.
This is like Gollum if he was Smeagols mother
My mother did the same to me. I had a girlfriend who wanted marry me, but my mother suspected her of wanting to use me and our big house.
Well Norman is here in A.I version.
Sure that’s not my mum
You got the guts boy SHUT UP SHUT UP !!
If Norman is a two characters person , sometimes turned to be his mother and sometimes turned back to his own identity, why his voice became an old lady voice?
Was Ms.Bates attracted to Norman? And Jealous of all the girls he dated
BrilovesKurtHummel Briones um that’s gross. I thought Ms Bates was his mother?
I think Norman was attracted to Ms. Bates
BrilovesKurtHummel Briones that might make more sense. I just thought he was trying to keep her alive in his mind
Because he missed her, he was also in love with her, I think he killed women that looked like his mom
I think you’re right about that. But I think in his mind his “mother” was the one who hated these women and that’s why he dressed as his mother when he murdered them
I wish his personality was the dominate one over the mothers. But the mother won
Nah, he’s too weak to be dominant
loveee
And I can just hear the lesbian feminists defending "Mother" - cooing: "Ooh - Strong Woman!"
_Hazbin hotel_
Norman price
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Did he actually do both voices ?????
no way, they should have though
Lol, dont get old.