As time grows closer to the premiere of Bate's Motel, we are getting a clearer picture of what's in-store for the viewer. I am cautiously excited about the show and am looking forward to it. Showrunner Carlton Cuse recently had a press conference to talk a little about the show's direction. Check it out...
The character of Norman Bates has always worked best when he walks the beaten path set forth by Alfred Hitchcock in Psycho. That being said, the show is dead set on being its own entity. How will that fair? Time will tell. Here is what was said:
"We did not want to do an homage to Psycho, we wanted to take these characters and setup as inspiration," showrunner Carlton Cuse ("Lost") told reporters. "The mythology that you think is what dictates the relationship between Norma and Norman is not what it's going to turn out to be. This is a tragedy, it's a fantastic dramatic form," Cuse said. "We want the audience to fall in love with these characters, particularly Norman. That tension of knowing what their fate is and how they get there was something we thought was really telling... The specific way in which their tragic fate plays out will be of our own invention."
The pilot reveals two mysteries involving Norman and the titular hotel -- an old notebook the teen stumbles upon that seems to tell a brutal story about a girl's torture as well as another woman chained up in what appears to be the basement of the building he and his mother buy -- that will continue to be explored, but Cuse noted it won't be a "Lost"-type mythology.
"There's no supernatural elements in play. We view this as a psychological thriller." Within this 10-episode serialized story (which, by the way, is in the present day -- complete with iPhones), could the Marion Crane character played by Janet Leigh in the Hitchcock film eventually make her way to "Bates Motel"? Cuse "didn't think" she'd appear down the line in the series -- which he envisions as having a beginning, middle, and end.
"There is an endpoint to this narrative, absolutely," he said.
Star Vera Farmiga said she perceives her character as an "
absolute train wreck... strong and tall as an oak and fragile as a butterfly," Her co-star Freddie Highmore said the story will challenge the audience.
"We all know where he's going to end up -- but is that because of his upbringing? Is it nature vs. nurture? Or is it because they moved to this dodgy town? Or is it because of intimate relationship between Norma and Norman? If I had had the upbringing Norman had, would I have been slightly different? We all go a little mad sometimes." "Bates Motel," starring Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore, serves as a contemporary prequel to the genre-defining film
Psycho where fans will find a teenage Norman Bates and his beautiful mother, Norma, at the start of their journey as the owners of the famed Bates Motel.
Source: THR
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