Movies

The 24 Hour Psycho by Douglas Gordon on page 91 intrigued me. It is a rendition of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller that forces the 109 minute movie to play entirely in 24 hours.  In a critique of the art piece, "it essentially takes the timing out of Hitchcock's bag of suspense-building tricks".  To me, suspense thrillers and horror movies would lose their fear tactics if the director or editor left out the sound effects and ominous music.  Maybe with more well done movies like Psycho, the angles, edits and acting can build fear and suspense, but all the cookie cutter formulaic horror movies are too dependent mood music and "sudden sounds".  Even in the original Psycho, during the shower scene which is most iconic of the movie, the moody music and sudden sound were added for build up of suspense and fear.

I know that is not the point of the critique but I feel the same effect of stripped off suspense would happen if the music and sound was cut out instead of slowing the movie down until it plays in its entirety in a 24 hour span.

I feel that the reverse could possibly strip the movie magic.  For example, Zack Snyder's 300 lasted 117 minutes but for the most part of the movie, he added a lot of slow motion to the film.  So much so, I felt that it distracted from the story.  If the movie was cut in regular speed, it would have lasted under 100 or 90 minutes.  The textbook states it can be argued that "technology reproduced art lacks the aura of an individually handcrafted original...[and] conflate conventional notions of originality, creativity and objecthood".  This may be a knock on 300 but it was an entertaining movie as much as Psycho.  If Psycho can be expanded to 24 hour to take the timing out of Hitchcock's movie tricks, I suggest, that the timing can be taking out of Snyder's tricks if 300 was played in 24 seconds.