'OPEN WINDOWS' PREMIERES AT SXSW
SASHA GREY: INSPIRATION WAS MORE 'BLOW OUT' THAN 'REAR WINDOW'
With
Grand Piano and now
Open Windows,
Elijah Wood seems to be working on a string of thrillers inspired by
Brian De Palma. The latter film had its premiere at South By Southwest yesterday.
Back in 2012, as he was getting ready to shoot
Open Windows, director
Nacho Vigalondo told
Screen Daily's Melanie Goodfellow, "Just as in Brian De Palma’s
Blow Out, the girl is captured. The hero will have to use every means at his disposal to discover where she is, and rescue her from the villain before its too late.” Vigalondo's 2007 film
Timecrimes is said to be a variation on De Palma's
Body Double. Judging by the
trailer,
Open Windows appears to have elements of
Body Double, as well.
Sasha Grey, who co-stars with Wood in
Open Windows,
once joked that she was making Body Double 2, as she modeled herself for the lenses of
Richard Phillips in the
John Lautner chemosphere house, used prominently in
Body Double. Grey tells
The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern that
Open Windows was inspired more by
Blow Out than
Rear Window:
-------------------------------Marlow: Back to Open Windows, it seems to combine the voyeuristic Rear Window conceit with the whole “cam girl” phenomenon, which has really transformed into a huge sub-industry in the porn world.Sasha Grey: I think Blow Out was more of an inspiration. But with the cam girl thing, it’s interesting because there were a few girls who did this in the ‘90s when no one was doing it, made millions, and retired. But now, with the advent of Internet porn, people can see professional-quality material online, and now we’re regressing and going back to not caring about the quality. But the fascination goes back to having a connection with the person you’re watching and having this “intimate” experience. It’s a need to satisfy the soul. The Internet has brought us together globally, but also separated us. And people now don’t have that intimacy in their real lives, so they go online.
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