Why did Norman Bates kill Marion Crane?

Question

in the movie "psycho" why did Norman Bates kill Marion Crane? What did she do to him?

Answer 1

Nothing. He was a sociopath.

Answer 2

Marion Crane

Answer 3

Did you even pay attention to the movie?!The reason goes back ten years before the killing of crane. Bates' mother was a crazy and repressive woman who made Bates accept the fact that all women were bad except for her. When she got a boyfriend Bates became insanely jeolous and poisoned his mother and her boyfriend. The guilt drove him crazy so he did not want to accept the fact he killed her. He end up making her personality in his brain which caused him to think his mother was still alive. Besides that he stole her corpse, dressed up in her clothes, and talked in her voice. So when he had feelings for Crane his mother personality took over his brain and caused him to kill Crane.So basically he still think mother killing people but don't know his mother is dead and it is actually him killing everyone. In Psycho 2 (1983) we find out that marion was not the first person he killed but the seventh. By the way tony's entry is only half correct. In Psycho 2 the woman does say she is Bates real mother, but in Psycho 3 we find out that she was crazy too and was his aunt. She had a boyfriend but Bates actual mother stole her boyfriend away from her so when his actual mother had Bates. His aunt thought it was her baby so she unsucessfully tried to kidnap him. Twisted isn't it?

Answer 4

Norman mother's have warned him to stay away from women. Although she was already dead. When Marion came he deeply lust for her by watching her in the peep hole, psycho, he inherited his mother personality and kill her. In other words he acted as his mother, and when he came to his senses he was shocked of what his mother had done, which was him. Therefore, in thought, his mother killed Marion Crane.

In part two, you'll lean that the woman was not his real mother. His real mother was sent to a mental institution while her craze sister raise her son. While Lila Crane is convice he shouldn't be release from jail, because she is Marion Crane's sister. She attempts to discredit him by using her daughter. This time the orginal killing was his real mother to protect Norman from Lila's plot. But at the end, like he done his first mother, he kills his real mother and inheirt her personality. The oringal personality was develop not from his first mother's love, but Norman Bates craze mind torn between his mother and relation with females.

God Bless

Answer 5

Ah there you are Norman - talking again about that dirty-minded, ill-mannered, vulgar young woman! Off with it from your mind! - or, I see, are you still... that's too disgusting, is my son still coveting that... kind of despicable thing, even in the presence of your own mother?!

Answer 6

Norman Bates was 50% his mother, who he taught was a bad woman.

"She wouldn't even harm a fly!"

Answer 7

His affection for her threatened to come between him and his affection for his mother. It is natural for a young man who is close to his mother to move away from her and become more independant when he start noticing girls. To the part of him that was his mother, since he was basically a split personality, this was unacceptable. That part, had to kill this woman who treatened to come between her and Norm.

Answer 8

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