Deborah L. Scott is one of Hollywood’s leading costume designers, having worked on high-profile films such as “ET the Extra-terrestrial,” “Back to the Future,” “Heat,” “Titanic,” “Wild Wild West.” Three “Transformers” movies and two “Avatar” movies. In a recent interview with /Film’s Jacques Giroux, Scott discussed her approach to designing future Disney costumes and how they should be divided along class lines. In “Minor Report” the police officers are very fascist and are very perverted and armed. The outside world was wild and diverse and represented an oppressed civilian population. And then, of course, there was the cruise itself, which had to stand apart from the heroic status of the characters and the actor’s “movie star” status. Scott said:
“[I]t was a more wonderful world, but we were grounded, again, in reality. What I did was, when I started making that film, there are three classes of society. If Tom Cruise is in full power, he will look like a human being. I used three different illustrations with different styles to help you achieve this feeling organically. Tom Cruise is a real world, fierce, ultra-fashionable artist based on minimal sketches. So, it’s a little exercise and very easy.
The world is so fragmented and with three descriptors helping in the design, Scott suggests that each part of society should be evocative of a different era of the past. In addition to Cruise’s fashion show, Scott employed classic Hollywood design in the 1940s and fascist design in the 1960s.
