Raising Cain

What do you do after Bonfire of the Vanities to get back in?

He does Raising Cain, which also doesn't do it much, but then it's Carlito's Way.

It's solid, but it's not like a...

It's a hit, but not like a huge hit.

If you can't tell that there's a lot of psycho in this movie, it becomes very, very obvious very quickly when you watch it.

I mean, yeah, Psycho's a thing.

He goes, like, Raising Cain has plenty of Psycho.

Different pieces of Psycho.

with all of the doubles, the split personality type things.

And I just kept thinking Sisters, Raising Cain, all of those movies and just the way some of the things were shot even.

There's something that reminded me of Raising Cain even more, I think, than Sisters.

But what were your thoughts there? I know he's your favorite, so I'm just very curious.

Yeah,

And keep changing the background.

Brian De Palma tells a great story about shooting Raising Kane, where, uh, Francis Sternhagen has to give all this expository information about, you know, how psycho John Lithgow is.

But th- they do it during a, like a five-minute steady cam walk going down like three escalators, so [laughs] it keeps it on its feet and it's moving.

But look at this timed just perfectly.

Because you're

getting into like Raising Cain versus Vampires or something like that.

Yeah, it gets a

little weird.

And he said, for me, they're actually going to go easy on me because my last two movies, De Palma had made The Bonfire of the Vanities, which was a huge disaster, a fiasco.

And then he got mad and followed it up with Raising Cain, which was like kind of a fuck you to everybody.

I'm going to go back to my old ways.

And they also tore him up for that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it's some of De Palma's best suspense work that he's done.

But also in comparison to other De Palma movies, This one is not as much of a pastiche as his other ones, you know, like stuff like Raising Cain and Dressed to Kill and Blowout.

They're all kind of doing Hitchcock pastiche.