OT: Chazelle on First and Last scenes
IMDb's Psycho board had many nominally OT (Off-Topic) threads. These were controversial: a few people really resented their presence. So... I'm testing the waters here.
NY Magazine has an interesting loose interview with La La Land director, Damian Chazelle, about the importance of First and Last scenes for his own films and for movies generally here.
Hitchcock, of course, worked very hard on his own first and last scenes, and Psycho is no exception. So people can jump off from Chazelle's discussion to Psycho if they want. Chazelle's also likely to win the Best Director Oscar that eluded Hitchcock (and Kubrick and Altman and Hawks and Aldrich and Lynch and Tarantino and...) this weekend, so there are further off-ramps that could make this thread only nominally OT (Psycho connects to almost everything if you try). But Chazelle's discussion is pretty interesting in its own right, e.g., he cites Last of the Mohicans (1992)'s final scene as a model (I remember that as a good film but I don't specifically recall the ending - will rewatch!), so it's fine by me if people leave any relevance to Psycho and Hitchcock implicit.