He has always been a very tricky filmmaker to define, someone who is best known for his commercially successful mainstream vehicles like Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, and Milk but who cut his teeth on smaller independent projects like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. To begin to understand this most notorious chapter in Hollywood history, we need to start with Van Sant.
But is there more to this story than simply a car crash remake gone wrong? Dig deeper into the whole affair and you’ll find a perfect storm of a disgruntled director facing off against a rinse and repeat industry based more and more on recycled ideas. In 1998, Gus Van Sant angered the world with Psycho, his near-exact shot-for-shot remake that drove critics into a furious rage and tarred his name in Hollywood for many years.
The film outraged censors with its slasher violence, surprised the studio with its box office success, and changed the face of the industry forever. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock shocked the world with Psycho, his twisted take on the horror genre that generated acclaim and controversy in equal measure.
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