:26:02
and then finally down to the leopards.
:26:06
And then our character enters back in.
:26:08
Of course, it's quite wild
and thoroughly implausible
:26:13
to have secretaries
working above animals,
:26:16
but that's the fun of movies
and the fun of building,
:26:20
you can build your own zoo where
secretaries work on top of animals.
:26:37
This is an early role
for John Larroquette,
:26:40
before he became a TV star.
:26:46
And Annette,
in her very all-American way,
:26:50
is an ideal counterpart to Nastassia.
:27:05
These lions, Nando designed these
:27:09
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,
:27:26
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
:27:53
the full size of the set,
:27:55
with a crane, and go all the way up
from the first to the third floor.