The Legend of Ed Gein and His Filmic Rebirth Essays -- Creative Writin

The Legend of Ed Gein and His Filmic Rebirth So you want to hear a figment hmm? Well, Ill give you what you want, but debase nothin bout it fiction. Now, you one of them scholarly types aint yacollege and libraries and all that crap, right? Well, college kiddy you may debate you enjoy it all, but I know a thing or two about a thing or two. You havent seen nothin. You dont know a damn thing until you step right into the path of a insensate killer. Til you look that crazy sumabitch right in his red eyes and dart him back to hell My name is Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden. Im old now. When I was young, I was the Deputy Sheriff of this here great town of Plainfield, Wisconsin. I know whatcha thinkin. I aint no drunk and aint crazy. uncivilized is man who massacres dozens of women hot and dead. Crazy is a man who eats human hearts for dinner. Crazy is the way your generation made that bastard one of the most noteworthy movie typesetters cases in the world. Crazy...is Edward Gei n Ed...well, he was born and raised in Plainfield. His soda water ran a farm just a few miles outside town. It wasnt farseeing before his daddy up and diedleft Ed and his brother wholly with that crazy ass momma of theirs. That woman was nuts. She went a troll tellin them boys that all women was evil. Shed beatem if they regular belief bout courting. When his momma died Ed was near on to cardinal years old and still living in his mommas house. He in the end took a liking to some gals in town. I guess it was in the long run safe to talk to em. I dont think no one thought much of Ed. He was real quite like. You know? Kinda unploughed to himself. I didnt pay much attention to him until that day. I guess it was round bout November of 57. Early one morning I thou... ...ual narrative makes the legend more appealing and provides a means for experiencing pleasure in film. Still, even so bland the oral legend may have become the inconsistency genre owes its popularity t o Ed Gein. His legend is the basis for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Halloween, When a fantastical Calls, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and just about every other psychopathic character ever to have graced the silver screen. Works Cited Mulvey, Laura.Visual Pleasure and tarradiddle Cinema. The Sexual Subject A Screen Reader in sexuality/Screen. London Routledge, 1992. Rebello, Stephen. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. New York Red Dembner Enterprises Corporation, 1990. Rothman, William. HitchcockThe Murderous Gaze. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1982. Wood, Robin. Hitchcocks Films Revisited. New York paperback book Library, 1970.