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Hello, this is Paul Schrader.
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This film, Cat People,
was made right after American Gigolo.
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It was offered to me.
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Universal was doing remakes
of a number of their classics,
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they had also done The Thing.
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I thought it'd be interesting
to make a film that I didn't write -
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this was written by Alan Ormsby -
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and that was a genre film.
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It didn't quite turn out that way.
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It ended up being as personal,
or more personal,
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than any of the films I've done.
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The original script
had a very conventional ending
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and the final film has
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one of the more bizarre endings in films.
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The most important name
on the credits, for me,
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is a man named Nando Scarfiotti
who was a very dear friend,
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who I had brought over from Italy
to do American Gigolo.
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He wasn't yet in the union,
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that's why he's called
a visual consultant.
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He had worked for Bertolucci
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on The Conformist
and Last Tango In Paris
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and went on to get an Oscar
for The Last Emperor.
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He was
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very, very influential
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on this film.
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He had the power to walk on the set
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and stop shooting and consult
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if he didn't think it was going right.
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This whole credit sequence was his idea.