(The editor’s note: The following article contains large spoilers for “28 years later“Found in theaters now.)
In “28 years later“The appropriately named sequel that comes 28 years after the Rage virus ravaged England in”28 days later“We find the lucky people who now survived in a common throw in a Throwback -life centered on agriculture, hunting, tools, weapons and gender roles demolished from a hundred years ago. While on this week’s episode of IndieWires Filmmaker Tolkit Podcast (in full below), director Danny Boyle Discussed the contradiction between these people, protected from the zombie-like infected by life on an island and the race virus itself.
“They have learned to survive, but they have not really developed. They have a little regressed, (go) back to a life from the 1950s,” Boyle said at Podcast. “However, the virus has developed more creatively.”
The virus has mutated substantially on the mainland, on the other side of the roadway that connects people’s new island home.
“The road (virus) manifested itself in the first filmIt would literally burn itself, (the zombies) would literally die in front of you, “Boyle said.” The pulp, frenzy, the violence they have within those who control them, use so much energy, they would die out quite quickly from malnutrition and dehydration. Now, what they have learned to do is bypass it. They have learned to hunt so they can eat so they can survive. “
As Boyle explained, the ability to adapt by securing food has resulted in three distinct variants of zombies. The first variant we meet is the “slow flame”, heavy infected people who do not go without snails along the moist forest bottom on the stomach.
“There are some creatures that live on the ground, who have obviously decided not to spend energy, and they will lower their energy consumption and therefore their nutritional needs when they cleanse the ground among worms and grubs and berries,” Boyle said. “They are much more passive but dangerous if provoked or worried.”
When Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) shows to his 12-year-old son Spike (Alfie Williams), the usual slow flames are easy to kill, and with the right precautions, they do not pose a real threat to people armed with an arch and arrow. It is a sharp contrast to the rare and much more scary variants called “Alphas”.
“To hunt without weapons, you would have to organize. It is a natural human instinct that we organize as a package, which can then hunt together and eat together. The development of it is a leader appears out of it, an” alpha, “Boyle said.” The virus has had a kind of steroid effect on these creatures, and they are on a larger scale. “
Also known as Berserkers, Alphas are massive. The main threat in “28 years later” is Alfa called Samson, played by 6-foot-8-inch and played by actor Chi Lewis-Parry (picture below), an MMA fighter and bodyguard. As muscular as Lewis-Parry is already, the special supervisor John Nolan has even more muscles on top of his massive frame, especially to his back. In the press notes, Nolan indicated that they increased “the proportion of about 40 percent” at Samson. Noted Boyle from the Alpha villain, who runs around quite naked (and quite well-authorized) for the most part of the movie: “He had some dietary supplements added to him.”
“As these big guys are often, he’s a mild giant,” Boyle said of Lewis-Parry. “He’s the cutest man, but on the screen he is completely scary.”
Ferocity as Samson moves is made visceral by Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantles close and personal use of the iPhone cameras to capture the violent speed of the new zombie base, which is so strong that they ripen the skull, with the spine that is still attached, just outside their victims.
“It was very scripted,” said Boyle and credited the screenwriter Alex Garland with Alpha’s disturbing way to end his prey. “I remember reading it thought,” Oh yes! “Because it’s a horror movie, so you want to scare people, and people have to imagine it happening to themselves, really.
In “28 years later” we also see an extremely thin, almost skin-and-leg zombie variant (picture at the top of this page), a small throw to the first victims of the rasrerivirus for “28 days later.” Boyle offered cryptically small explanation of this third variant: “There is a very thin man who clearly, for some reason, he cannot (hunt or collect food like the others).”
“28 years later” was written as the first of a trilogy of films. The second movie, “28 years later: bid temple,“Has already been shot by the director Nia Dacosta and is scheduled to come out next January. When he pointed to the future, Boyle warned the audience that we do not know everything yet about the adorable and very normal appearance (and seemingly non-infected) Baby like Spike and Isla (Jodie Comer) looks at a pregnant zombie that gave birth before she dies.
“Of course, there is a fourth (variant), which is even more complicated, which is that the child comes from an infected,” Boyle said. “The question we do not answer consciously is:” Was this woman a survivor who became infected while she was pregnant, or is the infected breeding? Do they have sex and (this are) the natural consequences of it? “So it’s kind of several developments that happen, probably, in reality.”
“28 years later” is now in theaters.
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