RESEARCH - Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual concepts and similarities between two movies. Some of these include recognised scenes such as the famous "Psycho" clip of the vulnerable woman getting murdered in the bathroom, in which the movie "Fatal Attraction" has a similar scene to this. The audience will recognise the similarity between these two as the aspects borrowed from "Psycho" were things such as the close up of the knife, the bathroom in which the woman is killed, and the shot of the curtain swimming down. The knife used in "Fatal Attraction" is similar to the one in "Psycho", these are the aspects of mis en scene. The killer however in "Fatal Attraction" is a woman instead of a man which adds originality to the scene. The curtain of the shower falls in both movies and as the victim was getting attacked by the knife, similar camera editing and shots such as close ups were used to show this.