I love Singin' in the Rain but the umbrella dance sequence here wasn't a conscious homage at all. I wanted to make something that really captured that dusk feeling of Los Angeles. It's always really sunny and beautiful there and I wanted it to be even more beautiful than it actually was, but it ended up being far more sinister than I'd intended it to be. Even though I came up with the idea, I'm pretty shy, so to ask all these girls in bikinis to politely shake their asses was pretty difficult, another thing altogether. I was fairly cowardly there. I think when we did those shots with them shaking their butts in the rain, I actually hid behind the monitor with Richard James and got the first AD to go and ask them to do it for me. Vincent Patterson, who choreographed this, was brilliant to work with [following this video, Lars von Trier picked him to work on Dancer in the Dark]. We shot in the Venice Beach area, virtually in that same spot that David Lee Roth shot his California Girls video. It made me very proud.
I love Singin' in the Rain but the umbrella dance sequence here wasn't a conscious homage at all. I wanted to make something that really captured that dusk feeling of Los Angeles. It's always really sunny and beautiful there and I wanted it to be even more beautiful than it actually was, but it ended up being far more sinister than I'd intended it to be. Even though I came up with the idea, I'm pretty shy, so to ask all these girls in bikinis to politely shake their asses was pretty difficult, another thing altogether. I was fairly cowardly there. I think when we did those shots with them shaking their butts in the rain, I actually hid behind the monitor with Richard James and got the first AD to go and ask them to do it for me. Vincent Patterson, who choreographed this, was brilliant to work with [following this video, Lars von Trier picked him to work on Dancer in the Dark]. We shot in the Venice Beach area, virtually in that same spot that David Lee Roth shot his California Girls video. It made me very proud.