Rosalie: David Fincher

It's yet another post about my cinematic influences. I feel like one day I'll have to stick a photocopy of my library card on my blog to prove I read books, as well as watching movies.

My degree was Film Studies so I'm entitled to some leeway; I do think, as well, Film influences Literature rather than the other way around (if we're not counting adaptations). It's easier to put a visual representation into a book than a literary representation into another book (that would be stealing).

The city in Rosalie is truly a shithole. The obvious influence is Se7en, my favourite David Fincher film, but there is also a strong Gotham city vibe. Still, Pacific City is full of criminals and nastiness and this intensity that I clearly felt from Fincher. Now, I'm not trying to say the city is as intense as that in Se7en (because that place is, intentionally, Hell) but I had that vibe all the while I was writing this. The music I listened to while I wrote Rosalie was Gary Numan, which is very similar to NiN, so it did, in one way or another, have that Fincher intensity.