Cat People
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1:27:00
This is Berry Berenson, Marisa's sister,
the wife of Tony Perkins at that time.

1:27:30
I probably saw the original
1:27:36
I don't know, three or four times
and then went on from there.

1:27:43
The script was sort of
based on the original film

1:27:47
but kept getting further away from it.
1:27:49
And the more interesting stuff we did,
the further we got from it

1:27:53
until we got into different
thematic areas altogether.

1:28:00
This is a swimming pool up in Pasadena.
1:28:06
We're using a hothead,
1:28:09
which had just started
to be used at that time.

1:28:13
A hothead is a camera
without an operator on it -

1:28:16
a remote camera,
which everyone uses now

1:28:19
but they'd just started at that time.
1:28:22
You couldn't use an operator here,
1:28:25
as the camera's actually over the water
and it'd be too heavy.

1:28:30
This, if I remember,
is a shot from the original

1:28:33
where you have the shadows
against the walls.

1:28:40
And the hothead's gonna come down.
1:28:47
I think in the original
they actually had a cat shadow,

1:28:51
we just have sort of a growl.
1:28:59
But obviously, we made every attempt to

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