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Looks That Kill
angle for Elle's reflection, Refn actually
had Fanning gaze into the star as if she
were looking into a mirror, with plans
for visual-effects artists to add her reflection later. On a whim, the filmmakers
kept the camera rolling as Fanning
walked back to the entrance, where her
image actually was reflected in the
mirrors surrounding the triangle.
Fanning kissed her reflection in those
mirrors, and that shot was then edited
into the footage at the other end of the
runway. Because the sequence is so
abstract - "and we didn't care about the
'reality' of it so much," Braier notes -
the cut doesn't call attention to itself.
After Jesse returns to her motel
room, someone tries to pry open her
door, fails, and then moves on to the
adjacent room, where he proceeds to
rape the girl inside. Jesse stands frozen as
the camera pans across her room to the
wall she shares with her neighbor; the
camera stops on the wall, and Jesse reenters the frame, kneeling down to
listen. The scene then cuts to a silhouette
of her listening, as if shot through the
wall from the adjacent room. Framing
Jesse's silhouette is a circular black "iris"
effect that gets smaller as the camera
Top: Jesse becomes
spellbound by her
own reflections
during a futuristiclooking fashion
show. Middle:
Braier and Fanning
rehearse Jesse's
walk down the
runway. Bottom: As
Fanning prepares
for Jesse's
transformation
from unsullied
ingénue to hardedged Narcissus,
camera operator
Stephanie Martin
(top right), key grip
Amos James
(wearing headseat)
and camera
assistant Hector
Rodriguez (far left,
pulling focus) run
through a take.
James is creating a
watery reflection
with the help of a
Sputnik bouncing
onto a pan
containing broken
bits of mirror.
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