Amazing marketing to Long legs He raised the level of intrigue For the summer horror movie The Sky Is High. But one thing audiences haven’t gotten a good look at yet is its biggest star: Nicolas Cage, who plays the title character. There is a precise reason behind this.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Long legs Director Oz Perkins confirmed that he intentionally withheld the design of the titular villain. “It pushes people toward A Freak show in a circus tent“We have the thing behind the scenes, and when there are enough people gathered around, we’ll do it,” Perkins said. Pull the curtain“.
Cage embellished his director’s statement, claiming that his character’s face is so horrific that it would incite mass hysteria if not handled carefully enough. “It is the equivalent of putting a warning label on a jar of nitroglycerin. The monster is an extremely dangerous substance. The way it is animated, unveiled and deployed has to be handled with extreme caution,” he said. “Forget about bombing the movie theater; the entire city could explode.” Not the country, and perhaps even the world. Your reality will change. The doors of your awareness will open, and your life will never be the same again.
This is one Hell To demand a mediocre little horror film to live up to. What is the secret of the serial killer in the film, referred to only as “Longlegs”? According to EW, a full reveal about Cage’s character won’t come until some time after the movie wraps.
“Editing an image is almost a psychedelic experience,” Perkins says. “It’s really because it’s so infinite. The permutations and combinations you can get from putting this there and that there, you’re in a Rubik’s cube of possibilities. I think we’ve found the sweet spot. This guy lives outside our protagonist’s consciousness. He’s there, but he’s not quite there,” But it exists completely there.”
Although we don’t know what the character looks like, plot hints indicate that Longlegs has ties to magic and a “personal connection” to Maika Monroe’s character, FBI agent Lee Harker. While we wait anxiously for the film to be released on July 12 to see for ourselves, you can connect with the film channel Official hotline For now at least He hears Cage’s character Rant at you Rudely.
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