The other half of ”28 years later“Is a surprise, not because of any huge plot twist, but in how filmThe velvet zombie frenzy is interrupted by the introduction by Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), which injects an unexpected poetic gripping into the film. And the turning point is sharp. Ilsa (Jodie Comer) and her son Spike (Alfie Williams) run for their lives when their attackers, the violent Alpha Zombie SamsonCrumbles to the ground from Kelson’s homemade soothing darts.
“He inoculates Samson and it all just stops,” the director said Danny BoyleWhen he was a guest at the filmmaker Toolkit PodcastWhen he emphasized how important it was to throw an established actor with Fiennes Gravitas in the role. “It is an important ingredient that Ralph has the ability to hold the picture, and by holding the picture I mean it is almost as if they can stop the picture and just point it in a different direction. He literally stops the movie for 13 years, he picks up everyone, including us, the audience, and we go off to meet his bone temples, which he has been desperate.”
The assumption of the other surviving people has long been that Kelson got angry. The legend has it years ago, one of the villagers saw the doctor feeding up hundreds of dead bodies in front of a huge fire. But when Alfie and Ilsa soon learn, when they are welcomed to Kelson’s temple built from these bodies, the doctor is completely different. The screenwriter Alex Garland referred to the character of the enemy as “an inverted Kurtz”, a reference to the fictional character in Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” Marlon Brando in Francis Ford CoppolaS “Apocalypse now.”
“He has the manifestation in many ways Kurtz: He is mysterious, maybe dangerous, surely people think he is crazy, but in fact he is a compassion,” Boyle said. “He is the only sensible person left in a way that has a compassion for all victims of what the apocalypse has made people through.”
The compassion is expressed in what has become Kelson’s life’s work: bone temple, or what he calls his Memento Mori (Latin for “Remember Death”), a memorial for all (Rage virus-infected zombies included) Those who have died of the virus. To handle the fertilization and design of Kelson’s temple, and the entire film’s costume and production design, Boyle made the unconventional choice to hire Gareth Pugh and Carson McColl.
“They are a couple of guys who had never designed a movie before, so it was a pretty huge risk,” Boyle said. “They made their name in costume design, but I had worked with them at a theater show and thought they were extremely inventive.”
Boyle knew that Hans Gamble had paid off when Pugh and McColl took the director to Lithuania to experience Crosses Hill, who became inspiration for Kelsons Memento Mori.
“This is one of the most extraordinary places I have ever been. It is a memorial made of cross, as the name implies, and it is built by the people. There is no agency or government involved,” said Boyle, who explained that learning about the story of how Lituanian Hillside Memorial had developed and continued to develop, and continued to develop, and continued to develop. “It is deeply moving to experience, and it has to do with how we are all connected to each other, I think, and that is really Kelson’s purpose.”
The movie site for Kelson’s temple was Redmire, a small village in North Yorkshire. There, Pugh and Carson constructed the temple from 250,000 individual replica bones and 5,500 scales, an endeavor that took six months to complete.
It is a commitment of time and resources that speak to how much Pugh and Carson’s concept has run Boyle and Garland’s ideas for the trilogy – including the title of the upcoming sequel, “28 years later: bid temple“Which has already been shot by director Nia Dacosta and will be released in January next year.
“(Kelson’s bentemple) will continue with increasing size depending on need eventually, and depending on whether someone else takes on that responsibility after Kelson himself has passed, if needed,” Boyle said. “And yes, the second movie comes back to the bent temple, and it is thanks to our designers, who came up with this idea.”
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