00:00Hi, I'm Curry Barker, and I'll be breaking down the flower scene from Obsession.
00:07Nicky, where are you?
00:11What?
00:14Nicky, what are you doing?
00:18Why don't you love me?
00:22Nicky? Nicky, where are you?
00:24That first shot you see where she screams and the camera is panning left and right.
00:29We didn't have the proper gearhead, you know, but when you're so low budget, like there's endless amounts of equipment
00:35that you can have for a camera that do the most niche thing you can do, but we just couldn't
00:40afford the proper equipment.
00:41And so even to just achieve that, like, quick pan, we had to shoot it kind of actually slowly and
00:47then speed it up in post.
00:53When she actually finally walks in, that's not actually Indy Never Ready, that's Ayana, a dancer who we hired to
00:59have those really creepy movements walking across the room.
01:05What do you want me to do?
01:08For Sandy, okay?
01:13Yeah, Indy lays in bed and Bear tries to get up and she yells stay as he is about to
01:19leave.
01:20The thing that I wanted to do there is, like, just hold on that moment for quite a while and
01:25you don't know if he's going to get up or if he's going to try to go back to sleep.
01:28You don't know what he's going to do, but then the moment you realize that he's trying to get out
01:33of bed, she screams stay.
01:35I think we only did, like, one or two takes of that.
01:39Max.
01:46Stay!
01:49I don't think it took much for Indy to get there.
01:52The script says stay, like, it says the word stay, and it really worked.
01:56The original scene was actually slightly different.
02:01We had Indy was in the corner and then she comes up to Bear and she's like, love crystal, and
02:06she does this weird thing where she starts, like, poking him with a crystal, and he's like, stop, stop.
02:09And it was really weird when we were shooting and I was like, I don't know if this is working.
02:14But the flower thing was an idea that I had a little bit later.
02:19It's a very technical scene, and when you're trying to achieve something that's not conventionally scary or normal, it's hard
02:28to get everyone on set to wrap their head around what you're trying to do.
02:33And even for me, like, watching this stuff, just kind of, like, being like, oh my gosh, I hope this
02:38is, like, working and is creepy because I know what I want the scene to be.
02:42But you're not relying on a jump scare.
02:44There's nothing conventional really about it, so it's so nerve-wracking to be on set and not really know if
02:49it's all working.
02:50And then even after you edit it, you really still don't know until you finally get it in front of
02:53a crowd and then you're like, oh my gosh, it's, you know, these beats are hitting the way that I
02:57wanted them to hit.
02:58So, well, we had, like, a test screening where I got to see reactions for the first time.
03:04And what's funny is, like, people that I would show the scene to at home, they didn't react.
03:09Like, Cooper never reacts to anything, which is, like, funny.
03:14But I'm always showing Cooper first because he just lives upstairs, so it's easy to just show him.
03:18But he never reacts to anything, so I'm always, like, basing if it's working off of Cooper, which I'm learning
03:22isn't right because he just doesn't react to anything.
03:25But people were reacting to that test screening, that's when I knew, like, okay, thank God.
03:29And some surprising reactions, like laughing when he lays back down and even laughing when she yells, stay, and he
03:37lays back down for that.
03:39Like, that got a laugh, and I don't know if I ever expected it to get the amount of laughs
03:43that it's getting.
03:44I knew that there were moments in this movie that possibly could become memes.
03:49I mean, obviously, you hope and dream, but I didn't anticipate that this whole movie would become a meme.
03:54I mean, like, people are just using, you know, her face as a meme when she's smiling, when she's frowning,
04:00the dinner scene at Lil Tony's.
04:01It's all becoming kind of a meme. It's really funny.
04:04I'm just surprised at how it's breaking so many records as far as, like, being compared to E.T.
04:10And now it just beat Paranormal Activity.
04:13I mean, what the heck is going on?
04:16Like, that's how I feel because it's just, like, even if this was a success, I never expected it to
04:22be breaking records.
04:23And it's just an unbelievable thing that's happening, and it's beyond me at this point.
04:28It's not even mine anymore.
04:31This movie just belongs to the world now, and they're going to come up with their own ideas of what
04:37it means and what it is, and I think that's really cool.
04:39I think that Hollywood can learn maybe that to let people have creative freedom.
04:44And I think that the strongest art comes from typically one person's mind.
04:51I mean, like, collaboration is the best thing in the world, but when there's not too many people intervening on
04:55the final product, that's when the best art can come out, I think.
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