My friend (Zübeyde
Arslan ) and I listened an interview between director Danny Boyle (interviewee) and Francin
stock (interviewer). I found this task very difficult and could not catch up
with their talking speed. I cannot remember how many times i replayed it and got
angry ;) . It may be useful but not encouraging.
The interview was
about his award-winning Mumbai
drama ‘’ Slumdog
Millionaire’’ which was directed by
Danny Boyle. In this interview,
the topic is about not only the
difficulties of filming in a different town with different culture but also the name , subtitles and content of the film.
Francin started the interview with this question: Here you are
as a westerner filming in India how do you avoid that kind of 'film tourism'
element?
Danny Boyle
answered this question saying that it was
the most important thing to avoid from his perspective. He also mentioned about
the some contradictions between White people and Indian people. He
supported his idea with this sentence : ‘’
Although I am like a white director going there,it was very important that the
cast of the film was a completely Indian cast. These characters all come from
the city and they belong there and they are not speaking words corrected by
westerners.’’
The second
question was about how a boy from the slums could answer the all question
correctly and make such a huge profit which Francin found unrealistic and bizarre.
Danny Boyle
answered this question by laughing and saying
her that it was not unrealistic. He
said : ‘’ No matter what your apparent,education life has also equipped you
with a series of tools that you will find surprisingly useful which he
certainly does on the show.’’
The next question
expressing the main point of the whole
film was about how the director got the
format of " Who Wants to be a
Millionare ’’
Danny Boyle
expressed that it was just a coincidence.
He said that it inherited the right to make the film for free from that
point of view so that was a huge benefit which was partly coincedence and partly
Tessa Ross of Film4.
In addition to
all these written, the director mentioned about difficulties in making film
and he made a comparisions between his own film and the films of some other
countries.
In conclusion, He
commended about current situation of films and gave some recommendations to DVD makers and actors.
If we were the
interviewer, we would ask the director;
-
Why such an adventurous film takes place in Indıa? Why Indıa?
-
In your opinion, Why did this film become
so famous? Why does it attract all people around the world?
To listen the all interview, Click here.
To listen the all interview, Click here.