What do you want from me?
To be friends.
Stoker (2013) dir. Chan-wook Park
“The piano duet wasn’t in the script, and it wasn’t even my idea! When I first went to New York to meet with Philip Glass I asked him to create a song [India and Charlie] could play together for that scene. And he said, "Well, I’ve got to know what kind of scene it is for me to write it.” So we’re saying, it’s a piano performance, but it’s actually sex. And he said, “Oh, I got it. I once made a piece called Four Hands, a married couple were playing it and one day the husband said, while we can play it like this, we can also play it like this [mimes the man putting his arm around the woman to reach the other side of the keyboard.] Right away that night, I changed the script to have Charlie’s arm going around India.” - Park Chan-wook
favorite fictional ladies→ india stoker (stoker)
“just as the flower does not choose it’s color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be.”
get to know me meme [1/5] movies | stoker
“we don’t need to be friends. we’re family.”
Well…that’s how I feel tonight.
#stoker #this scene is perfectly crafted for a film which allows its female anti-hero to contain violent desiring multitudes #to show different & inscrutable facets from every angle #to have a thousand faces all of them true #stoker refuses to explain or dissect india; she simply is #as much a force of nature as the ripe seething rattlesnake heat that surrounds her
India is reminiscent of Séverine in Belle de Jour (1967, costume design by Yves Saint Laurent and Hélène Nourry), an inhabited young woman on the verge of change, her mind confused yet interminably focused. Like Séverine, India’s clothes, a mix of high-waist short pleated skirts, blouses and slip dresses, reflect her evasive personality. (x)