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How does Alfred Hitchcock gain the sympathy of the audience for Marian Crane in Psycho  

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How does Alfred Hitchcock gain the sympathy of the audience for Marian Crane in Psycho? Alfred Hitchcock directed the film 'Psycho' in 1960. At the end of its first year, the film earned fifteen million dollars. The film has generated three sequels and was the first "Madman with a knife" or "Slasher films." Followed by films such as 'Nightmare on Elm Street' or 'Halloween'. It was also the very first horror film that looked at something realistic like a psychiatric situation instead of fictional horror characters like werewolves or vampires. Alfred Hitchcock had his own new ideas in publicity and marketing. He made sure that everyone was seated before the film had started and that no one could enter half way through. Hitchcock had advertisements all over the place. He even went out and bought all of the 'Psycho' novels out of shops to make sure that no one could find out...

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