Michael Douglas and Paul Verhoeven both approached the film as if it were a detective novel. Verhoeven wanted to make a modern version of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, except with a lot more explicit sexuality, and Douglas agreed with the noir aspect. Typical Hitchcock elements include shots of staircases, as well as a beach house filmed against the backdrop of a stormy ocean (as seen in La donna che visse due volte (1958)). Verhoeven also admitted that Hitchcock influenced him subconsciously, when he later noticed that he had unknowingly selected one particular filming location because it had a small church in the background, looking almost identical to another shot from Vertigo.

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