Ella newton7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() In fact, not anticipating the level of chemistry between Newton and breakout actress Karis Kailani Oka (Lian), he regrets not shooting more scenes with them together. He attributes his funny and likeable teenage girls to co-writer Nicolette Minster. ![]() The 2017 black comedy slasher film Happy Death Day showed Hartley what authentic female dialogue sounds like. “It's certainly paying tribute to a lot of stuff that we loved when we were teenagers” – Mark Hartley “A Steven Spielberg-style Amblin movie, but directed by Tobe Hooper ( Texas Chainsaw Massacre) – that was our blueprint for the sensibility of the film,” Hartley says. For the production design and horror aesthetics, the crew looked to Dario Argento ( Suspiria). Flavours of Richard Franklin ( Roadgames, Psycho II) went into the plotting and scene staging. Split diopter shots are borrowed from Robert Weiss ( The Blues Brothers) and Brian De Palma ( Scarface). “And I think Girl at the Window is more us settling down and finding our own style.”įrom the old-school, mainstream Hollywood lighting to not shooting anything handheld, the pair’s anti-naturalism is what makes their feature “unlike most Australian films”, according to Hartley.
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