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 legend hmm? Well, Ill give you what you want, but taint nothin bout it fiction. Now, you bingle of them scholarly types aint yacollege and libraries and all that crap, right? Well, college kiddy you may think you know 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 c darkened-blooded killer. Til you look that pallid sumabitch right in his red eyes and send 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. Crazy is man who massacres dozens of womenalive and dead. Crazy is a man who eats human police van for dinner. Crazy is the way your generation made that bastard one of the most famous movie characters in the world. Crazy...is Edward Gein E d...well, he was born and raised in Plainfield. His pop music ran a farm just a few miles outside town. It wasnt long before his daddy up and diedleft Ed and his brother alone with that crazy ass momma of theirs. That woman was nuts. She went around tellin them boys that all women was evil. Shed beatem if they even thought bout courting. When his momma died Ed was near on to thirty years old and still living in his mommas house. He finally took a liking to some gals in town. I guess it was finally safe to talk to em. I dont think no one thought much of Ed. He was real quite like. You know? Kinda kept to himself. I didnt pay much wariness 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, however bland the oral legend may have become the horror genre owes its popularity to Ed Gein. His legend is the basis for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Halloween, When a Stranger 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 report 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 Library, 1970.