thefilmfatale: Psycho’s screenwriter, Joseph Stefano, was adamant about seeing a
thefilmfatale:Psycho’s screenwriter, Joseph Stefano, was adamant about seeing a toilet on screen to display realism. He also wanted to see it flush. Director Alfred Hitchcock told him he had to “make it so” through his writing if he wanted to see it. Stefano wrote the scene in which Marion adds up the money, then flushes the paper down the toilet specifically so the toilet flushing was integral to the scene and therefore irremovable. This was the first American film (and possibly first fictional film) ever to show a toilet flushing on screen (x). -- source link
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