Maki's Movie Blog

  I’d like to introduce The Simpsons . The Simpsons  is an American animated sitcom. The anime was created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It has been dubbed and broadcast in Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. It has continued from December 17, 1989 to the present. The series has reached season 30, with over 600 episodes aired so far. The main characters are the Simpson family. They live in the fictional town of Springfield.   Homer, the father of the family, is a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He has a joking personality. His wife Marge is a stereotypical American housewife. This anime is a comedy about daily life, and it's fun, but I thought it wasn't suitable  for children because it contains a lot of satire and black jokes about politics and society.  This anime has a lot of movie parodies, and I like the times when there are parodies of The Shining .

I would like to introduce Psycho. This movie is a 1960 American psychological chiller film. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The main actors are Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. It was Based on the novel ‘’Psycho ‘’ written by author Robert Bloch. This movie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Janet Leigh and Best Director for Hitchcock.   The 　 main character is Marion Crane. She has a boyfriend, Sam. He has debts. Therefore, he could not bring himself to marry her. So, she embezzled the company’s money and drove to California where Sam is. When night fell, Marion decided to stay at a small inn called the Bates Motel. The motel is run by a young man named Norman. She had dinner with Norman in his gest room, talked  with him, but she sensed something suspicious about him. Marion decided to drive back to Phoenix in the morning and return the money she stole… This movie is simple, but interesting. In shower scene, the song ‘’the murder’’ was used, which made me...