SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains minor spoilers for MaXXXine. If you haven’t noticed the movie yet, do so at your own risk!
MaXXXine is originally a horror film set in Hollywood in the 1980s, but the most important fact is that it is a love letter to the art of filmmaking. The main points and inspiration of film history can be discovered in the work, from costumes to production design to cinematography. One of the highlights in this regard, of course, is the fact that it was filmed in and around Norman Bates’ iconic home in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (one of the biggest horror films of all time). , and it turns out that the on-site deposit was a crucial detail that required key behind-the-scenes moves to achieve.
As shown in the video at the end of this article, I recently had the opportunity to speak with writer-director Ti West and stars Giancarlo Esposito and Moses Sumney at the MaXXXine press day in Los Angeles, and some of the more sensible things raised in our conversation. filming scenes with the Psycho house. West explained that the concept was written into his script and that it essentially had to work because he had no backup plan in mind. The filmmaker said,
We were very fortunate that. . . Even today, I still think about it because Universal had to say yes, and they did. And then Hitchcock’s estate had to give their approval. And that was in the script. So that was the first thing Jacob Jaffke, the producer, had to do, because I thought, “I don’t have a backup plan. There’s no better position where we can just stop by and talk. “
In MaXXXine, the titular protagonist played by Mia Goth first sees Psycho House on a field trip to the Universal Pictures backlot, but uses the fake space as a safe haven position in the second act when she’s chased by the slimy personal investigator John. . Labat (Kevin Bacon). It might be a place of terror in the old Alfred Hitchcock film, but, as many moviegoers feel about cinema, the place becomes representative of safety.
As Ti West pointed out, having the opportunity to film in and around the famous Bates space also meant that MaXXXine could return to the Psycho references and tributes featured in X, the film that kicked off the trilogy that crowns the new horror film. . West continued,
Because we referenced that in X, it was a huge compliment to get there and be there. And, you know, it’s because of any of them. I mean, we had that. . . and it was very surreal to film there and photograph it and not do Psycho, but photograph it. It was very surreal.
Including the Psycho slot was a way for Ti West to demonstrate his love of film in his MaXXXine script, but it was far from the only example. I asked him about his method of injecting the full breadth of cinematic history into his work and he explained. Most of the main points were combined in the writing process and in an effort to provide a cornerstone for his trilogy:
Most of it is probably in the script. I mean, I think putting the third movie in Hollywood and taking it as far as we’ve taken it in terms of scope. . . This trilogy is in some ways about cinema. It’s about many things.
Next, West talked about how the three films (X, Pearl and MaXXXine) speak to other perspectives and effects of this art form:
In X, they’re trying to make a movie and that’s what it’s like to make a low-budget movie and be on the fringes of the formula and Hollywood, and at the same time be able to try to work their way through the movies. And then Pearl is someone who looks at the screen as something hopeful and sees how her life could be different if she only had a life like in the movies and glamour. And then, now, for Maxine, she’s here; It’s in the beast’s abdomen. And you know, I just wanted to take all the credit for that.
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