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Here's one of the unfortunate things
about the pre-digital era.
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No matter how well
you did it at that time,
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it still, you know, looks like
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an appliance,
an artificial hand that is busting open.
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Today, digitally, you can take a real hand
and make that actually happen
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and it would be much more realistic.
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Even though Cat People
started out as a horror film,
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it ended up becoming more and more
of a kind of perverse erotic love story.
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And the horror elements remained
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but I think the reason why it wasn't
as commercially successful in the US
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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,