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was that it really didn't have
its heart in the horror genre.

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It had its heart elsewhere.
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It had its heart in
the perverse-romantic genre.

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The film performed very well in Europe
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and I don't know quite why that is.
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Maybe it's because
those genre distinctions

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were not as well drawn at that time.
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There's gonna be a shot
coming up - this shot here -

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where Malcolm comes through
the shadows as a human being

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and comes out as a cat.
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So back there - that's Malcolm -
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and then on the other side
of that shadow

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is a black mountain lion.
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And in the passage in between
Malcolm and the mountain lion,

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we rotoscoped the yellow eyes in
so that the eyes would be continuous

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from Malcolm's eyes
to the mountain lion's eyes.

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I'm not much on storyboards,
never have been,

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this was storyboarded
more than would be normal

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because you had layers
of special effects.

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You had appliances,
you had visual effects

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and then you had animal effects.
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So you had to have a clear idea
of what you were going to do.


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