:27:05
These lions, Nando designed these
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and I've seen these in other films
:27:12
because the moulds
ended up at Universal,
:27:15
so occasionally I would see them
again in other films.
:27:20
He's quoting here from La Vita Nuova,
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some poems by Dante about Beatrice,
:27:30
going back to that
sub-theme of Dante and Beatrice,
:27:38
which runs through
the eroticism of the film.
:27:48
Again, we're able to use
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the full size of the set,
:27:55
with a crane, and go all the way up
from the first to the third floor.
:28:06
I've always liked John Heard,
:28:09
he struck me as an all-American actor.
:28:13
I particularly liked him
in a film called Head Over Heels
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where he was madly in love with this girl,
:28:20
and again, struck me as the kind of
:28:24
very intelligent American nice guy
who would be
:28:31
the ideal pawn in such an exotic game.
:28:43
My particular church
did not allow theatre attendance
:28:47
so I never really went to movies
in any serious way until I was in college.
:28:53
That was the time of
the European cinema of the '60s.
:28:57
That was the cinema I first encountered,