A propos de KISS et Brian de Palma, je n'en sais rien pour ma part mais il y a une réflexion intéressante :
\"It’s interesting that you bring up Kiss, though. Both Kiss and The Rocky Horror Show predate Phantom Of The Paradise, but if I have my chronology correct (and I was 3 years old when this movie came out, so I may be misremembering), neither Kiss nor Rocky Horror would’ve been popular enough for De Palma to be nodding to them. Rocky Horror was still just a stage show at the time, and Kiss didn’t have any hits. And yet some of the makeup and staging in Phantom is so close to both of those that the movie is either incredibly hip or there really was something in the air in the mid-1970s, in the thick of the glam-rock era. (By the way, I highly recommend the website The Swan Archives for its trove of behind-the-scenes Phantom Of The Paradise material, which includes a careful consideration of whether Kiss could’ve influenced this movie or vice-versa.)\"
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Je vais pas tout traduire mais en gros KISS n'aurait a priori pu être une référence pour De Palma car ce groupe n'était pas populaire au moment de la réalisation du film. Pour ma part n'étant pas spécialiste ni même amateur de KISS (ce groupe ne m'intéresse pas) je n'irai pas plus loin sur ce sujet.