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It's political correctness gone Psycho! Remake won't show the killer cross-dressing in a shower....
daily mail uk | April 16, 2017

Posted on 04/17/2017 12:11:23 AM PDT by Morgana

FULL TITLE: It's political correctness gone Psycho! Remake won't show the killer cross-dressing in a shower scene in order to avoid 'transphobia'

It is the chilling moment from the classic film Psycho that once seen can never be forgotten.

Deranged motel proprietor Norman Bates, dressed up in his mother’s clothes, launches a murderous knife attack on a defenceless guest in the shower.

But now the scene from the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh has been remade, but with a crucial difference.

Bates is no longer wearing women’s clothes – for fear of damaging the image of the transgender community.

This is despite the fact he wears his mother’s dresses at other moments in the series.

It is the climatic episode in the fifth and final season of US television series Bates Motel starring British actor Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates and singing superstar Rihanna as his intended victim, Marion Crane.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: alfredhitchcock; homosexualagenda; mother; normanbates; psycho; shower; tranny; transexual
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To: Morgana

Why would Rihanna need to embezzled $40k?


21 posted on 04/17/2017 1:09:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

A bearded lumberjack in a plaid shirt.


22 posted on 04/17/2017 1:13:02 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Perhaps Today

He has. I’ve been watching the show since the beginning and I think it’s a pretty good show. Norman just thinks he’s his mother sometimes and rarely puts her clothes on anyway.


23 posted on 04/17/2017 1:48:14 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: PCPOET7
I am a armature writer [...]

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.

Regards,

24 posted on 04/17/2017 2:12:56 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

sorry about the misspelling but it is difficult for me to writer on the fly. I have dyslexia so I have to work real hard to correct my spelling and grammar on what ever I write. if I did not have a computer and a word processor I would be unreadable.


25 posted on 04/17/2017 2:20:12 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (in)
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To: Morgana; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

As though another reason is needed to boycott Hollywood.

PING!


26 posted on 04/17/2017 2:42:16 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Morgana

This could only be considered offensive if Norman Bates actually were a Transgender / Transvestite. He is neither. He dresses as his mother because he believes he IS his mother in those moments. Having him kill as Norman shatters the glass wall separating those two personalities and actually ruins the story line.


27 posted on 04/17/2017 3:31:31 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Ken H
You’d never see a lot of classics from the 70s and 80s. Animal House comes to mind.

Here is what the boys at Animal House would have to say about it:


28 posted on 04/17/2017 3:40:12 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Morgana

While I thought the original was hard to watch, this one will be one to miss, altogether.


29 posted on 04/17/2017 3:53:52 AM PDT by stevem
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To: PCPOET7
"I am a armature writer...."

Um, yes, yes you are.....

30 posted on 04/17/2017 3:59:21 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: cincinnati65; PCPOET7; alexander_busek

Come on, folks. Give him a break. Haven’t we all been bitten by the spell check gremlin?

I think he meant to say he was an “armature wirer”.

People are so harsh and unforgiving on here.


31 posted on 04/17/2017 4:25:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Mr Radical

Norman Bates will be a white cop killing a black.


32 posted on 04/17/2017 4:50:20 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: rlmorel

Or maybe armchair rider ?


33 posted on 04/17/2017 4:51:31 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: Morgana

The New Normal Norman is a man who identifies as a woman who dresses as a man. Women who aren’t dressed at all trigger his murderous rage, because nudity undermines the whole cross-dressing thing, leaving cognitive dissonance in its wake. And that’s actually grandpa in the rocker at the end.


34 posted on 04/17/2017 5:06:31 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: rlmorel
I had no doubt he was bitten by the autocorrect bug on that one. I meant my comment as a joke....

Lighten up, Francis.

35 posted on 04/17/2017 5:08:24 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Morgana

I thought the intent was to avoid comparisons with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Norman’s bedridden mother.


36 posted on 04/17/2017 5:08:46 AM PDT by BilLies (It is not the color, but the culture that degrades....)
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To: Morgana

Was watching the first season of MASH on dvd last night.

In this episode, Klinger is finally granted his Section 8 discharge by Sidney the psychiatrist. All he has to do is sign an attestation that he’s a homosexual.

He is immediately offended, and vociferously denies the assertion.

Imagine the outrage if that aired today.

There are a few other episodes where homosexuality is ridiculed or otherwise used as a punchline.

MASH was on Netflix for about a week, and was then removed. I wonder what happened.... (not really)


37 posted on 04/17/2017 5:27:09 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Morgana

All movies and TV programs are made with the express purpose of promoting an agenda. When the movie was first made cross dressing wasn’t the latest political hot topic. Today it is, as the creeping mental disease known as liberalism spreads.


38 posted on 04/17/2017 5:34:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: Morgana

So this would be what, the second remake? The third? Why?


39 posted on 04/17/2017 5:41:28 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ConservativeWarrior
How about the MASH episode Inga:

Klinger: “To tell you the truth, I don’t belong here. If two doctors will sign a form, I’ll be able to go home. And so far, I’ve got all but both of them.”
Inga: “You know, I may be able to help you.”
Klinger: “Oh, you can? You mean it?”
Inga: “Yeah, well, I have a colleague in Copenhagen who does sex-change operations.”
Klinger: “Yeah? What’s that?”
Inga: “Well, you would finally be transformed into a woman. It’s very sophisticated surgery, but, uh, it’s possible.”
Klinger: “You mean, somebody– You mean, take a knife and– and–“
Inga: “Yeah.”
Klinger: “They’re crazier than I am!”

And that episode was written by Mr. Liberal himself, Alan Alda.
40 posted on 04/17/2017 5:45:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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