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Weve called them a lot of things.
I dont think of them as remakes, he told Vulture over the phone.
We didnt want to hang the mystery of our film on the same question as Argentos.
Kajganich talked to Vulture aboutradically reimaginingDario Argentosoriginal.
(Beware ending spoilers in the last two questions!)
YourSuspiriakeeps the witches and the dancing from the original, but adds this deeper psychological element.
Its more curious about feminism, postwar guilt, and the rise of leftists in Germany.
Would you be interested in writing it?
If both of us had been slavish fans to the original, it wouldnt have worked.
It made me feel like Id been dragged into a lava lamp by a lunatic and stabbed to death.
Its quite an experience.
Im thinking that adapting an older movie has a different set of challenges than adapting a novel.
None of those things was going to be useful to me writing these screenplays.
That time, I took lots of notes about the structure and the characters.
And then I didnt watch it again.
I spent my time researching those things, as opposed to being overly slavish to the original.
I let it go pretty early in my process.
We talked a lot about subverting the structure ofLa Piscine.
It required going back a little more to the original, just to balance out the structure of it.
So, I spent a little bit more time looking back on that film, but not much.
Theyre stripped naked and the women laugh at them.
It was one of the boldest images in the movie.
They are toyed with and played with, and then released without any memory of whats happened.
Its hard to tell, its ambiguous.
Its the same as the scene at the end where Susie wipes Klemperers memory at the end.
You could think of it as either.
We didnt want to be super prescriptive about how an audience felt.
In fact, theyre very muchnotin charge.
I was so overwhelmed by what I was seeing!
It was on his little iPhone.
I couldnt believe it.
I couldnt believe he went that far.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
