Intertextuality

Intertextuality 

Intertextuality, is when a piece of media that copies the ideas of another. These ideas are borrowed and remade the same or similarly re-imaged. Alfred Hitchcock's psycho shower scene is very popular for people using its idea. Its a thriller scene were a women is being killed while taking a shower. 

Psycho 

Scary Movie copies the genre, horror and turns it in to a comedy using the same elements, props, and technical areas. There is a shower scene that they remade using a scary, horror hand. In the Scary Movie 4 trailer, there are scenes that display intertextuality, e.g we see intertextuality of saw were a person has to cut his foot off but they make it funny.

One of the copied shower scenes is created in The Simpson's, they have a lot of intertextuality and change the ideas slightly to make them humorous. Although, This Simpson's scene isn't exactly the same, it has the same elements of the psycho scene and that's what constructs the intertextuality. What shows the intertextuality are these: the red paint, representing the blood, the hammer representing the knife and the blood going down the sink hole. Furthermore, the camera shots are also similar, we see the close up of the hand descending and pulling down the curtain in the same way the women in the shower scene.