"Six Different Ways" from The Rules of Attraction (2002)

The Praying Mantis in the opening sequence was the very first shot of the production. On the first day, while waiting for Van Der Beek to arrive on set to shoot him laying at the base of the tree, we saw a praying mantis crawling along the grass. A good omen for the production. We quickly turned the cameras onto it, and shot. I then allowed him to crawl onto a cup, and James arrived and we began to shoot his scene. It was our first day, and James was a bit shagged from being out all night at a strip club, and while he was laying there with his eyes closed, waiting for the cameras to roll, I whispered "I'm going to put a praying mantis on your face, don't move."
"Does it bite?" James asked, his eyes still closed.
"No," I said before rolling cameras and putting it on his lip, not having the slightest idea if this praying mantis was poisonous or not.
Years later James told me that it bit him multiple times as it crawled up his chin, and that it hurt. Bad.

The Food Service Girl, who is placed throughout the backgrounds of the film, is Theresa Wayman, now in the band Warpaint.

Note: I am the director of The Rules of Attraction (2002) and this clip is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is (1) non-commercial, (2) transformative in nature, (3) uses no more of the original work than necessary for the video's purpose, and (4) does not compete with the original work and could have no negative affect on it's market.

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• Six Different Ways

[CandyHam]

@Msgreenplace You want to know her?

No one ever knows anyone. Figure it out. Rock and roll. Deal with it.

[Msgreenplace]

i want to know ms.theresa wayman .i think i like her acting in the movie

[inuyashalovesme213]

This song is bitchin. And I wanna go to that college also seems bitchin.

[SkwerlBergamot]

bret easton ellis is like creamy milk chocolate with a little bit of strawberry in it to me

[SkwerlBergamot]

@Msgreenplace

the band warpaint, apparently she's the guitarist

[teameymelli1]

college is as if not more surreal than the novel/film

[jazzbojackson]

@taytrong so what?

[taytrong]

Not as good as the opening scene of "Killing Zoe"

[ToddSGallows]

Such a great adaptation that does so much of it right. It uses significant lines and elements from the source material, but isn't a slavish translation of it from page to screen. It also has the perfect tone for the book. I want more movies like this about youth "love" treated very cynically.