Intertextuality

Intertextuality:


This is when films 'borrow' from each other, and we as the audience recognise certain things like camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, sound and certain methods of editing in some films that we have seen in other films.

This is the famous 'shower' scene from the film (1960) film 'Pyscho'

Many films over the years have 'borrowed' from the film 'Pyscho' and this particular film for example:

- The stepfather (2009)

- What lies beneath (2001)

- Fatal attraction (1987)

This is the last scene from the film 'The Stepfather' (2009) 

This film 'borrows' alot from the hit film 'pyscho' for example: 

- share the same white walls

- same shot when pulling down the curtain

- the same tiles and bath

- the same knife

- like in the first clip there was the same action of sliding down the wall

This tells me, that intertextuality should strongly influence our thriller, that we should be 'borrowing' certain aspects from other films in order to make them successful.