An interview with Danny Boyle

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.