declared frame of reference is not the world but another film?) The
remake was shot by the cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who is
also an adept photographer. He regularly shoots personal stills on set.
In one of these, the actress Ann Heche is seated in a car in a film studio
while a back projection of a road plays behind her. It is a ‘real’ back
projection, not a digital one added afterwards – Van Sant was sticking
to cinema’s old tricks. Heche is playing Marion Crane, the bank clerk
on the run with stolen money. Or perhaps she is playing the original
122 actress Janet Leigh playing Marion Crane. Doyle’s shot of Heche’s
106 Robert Cumming,Shark fin atop
pneumatic water sled, from ‘Jaws 2’
(1978), March 28, 1977. Black and white
photograph, 10 x 8 in.
