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‘There’s No Serial Killer In That’: 'Longlegs’' Director Asked His Cast And Crew To Watch Some Pretty Unexpected Movies, But It Worked
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Interview with writer / director Oz Perkins and Actor Maika Monroe
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The first thing I want to discuss with you is just the atmosphere of the film, because that's
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really just what won't leave me. It is just so unrelenting. I'm curious about the process of
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both establishing that atmosphere on set and during post-production, and just the influences
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that you kind of took in the making of it. I like very much the vibe from The Shining in there,
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for sure. I think that what ends up happening when I'm writing something, when I'm putting out,
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when it's time for me to be in output mode, is that what could possibly be happening besides
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everything that's been input has been sort of churned through my experience, through my feelings,
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my sensibilities, my taste, my good, my bad, my shadow, my light, and it comes out as this other
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thing, and my job is just to sort of curate that so it makes sense to somebody else besides myself.
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And so, you know, whatever's in me is coming out onto the page, hopefully. I mean, if I'm in a good
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limber day, and it's a good writing day, then the stuff is flowing through the channel. And so,
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you know, any project just becomes a sampling of things about me. And so, you know, do I ever
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deliberately say, it has to be just like this? Sometimes, you know, like, in the case of this
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movie, like, the setup had to be like Silence of the Lambs. Like, that, we knew that much going in,
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that that was going to be a rule that we were going to follow. But, you know, for the most part,
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I'm pulling very disparate comps and inspirations and influences and things. And I'm saying lots of
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really oblique things to people and having them watch movies that have nothing to do with what
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we're doing. Because you can't go straight at something, right? You kind of have to come at
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it from a side. Oh, I guess from that question, Micah, what did you watch? What did you watch?
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I don't know. Like, I don't, I don't know. I watched. Like, I think I said, I think I said to
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Mike, I don't know if you watched, but I said, like, a woman under the influence really early on. I was
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like, I don't know. There's no serial killers in that. There's no anything in that. But,
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like, it's just a fucking perfect thing. Yeah. Right? So, I want to feel good about
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something else that's been made that's been perfect. I told the DP, my, my director of
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photography, we looked at a lot of Gus Van Zandt movies just for, there's, there's a,
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I mean, talk about good taste, right? So, it's just like, you want to, you want to,
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like, let's have an adventure in good taste. Watch Last Days or watch My Own Private Idaho.
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Just have, like, a moment of good taste and let's try to copy it.
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