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This is...
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Malcolm is riding on the dolly,
that's why he doesn't move
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and she's walking behind
against a huge fan.
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What we had in mind here
was that she sees her mother,
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based on a famous
surreal leopard painting.
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We actually shot that but it didn't
work out, it looked too hokey.
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These poor leopards are dying now,
it is hot up there.
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It is very hot
and they're all tethered to that damn tree
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by wires to leashes around their necks.
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In fact, during one shot
a leopard actually fell off the tree
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and was swinging from the tree
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and the animal handlers had to rush over
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and rescue him
and get him back up on the tree.
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But I love this Jungian kind of imagery
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of the tree of life
being the tree of leopards.
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This is a real leopard, that's why
Malcolm's not getting too close,
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and there may be an outtake
somewhere else on the DVD,
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but that had been
that surreal leopard painting
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in which Nastassia's mother
was actually playing her real mother.
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Here's what they call a scène à faire,
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which is some sort of obligatory scene.
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There's always a scene...
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Here again is a mysterious figure,
which means nothing.
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Or everything.
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An obligatory scene in a movie like this
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where the girl gets chased
by the mysterious object
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and the mysterious object
is then revealed to be a harmless object,