Research -Intertextuality

What is Intertexuality?

Intertexuality is the relationship between texts. Its is used in film making as people use scenes from past films and put it in their own films, they usually do it as an inspired piece and not a directly copied version.
Examples of Intertexuality would be found in the bathroom scene from the film Psycho.

Pyscho:

Many films have the same version of the bathroom scene in the original Psycho such as, Fatal Attractions, What lies beneath, ect.

Fatal Attraction Bathroom Scene:

I noticed that the music for Fatal attraction and Psycho are exactly the same in the shower scene. also the way the shower curtains are pulled down as someone is dying.

 Using Intertexuality for my group can help influence us to interpret something from another film and use it in our own. This could be included in mise en scene, camera work, sound and editing.