I have heard direct talk about M. Night · Shamaran's first drama "We Word Pines"

Film director M · Knight · Shamaran challenges for the first time in the movie "Six · sense", "unbreakable", "village" etc Drama series "A city without Wayward · Pines exitThe broadcast of FOX channel started all over the world at the same time. Despite the original novels, the unpredictable development is a work that feels like a director Shamaran. This time it was about Director Shamaran coming to Japan, so I've asked about stories about drama about various works.

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Q:
The original novel is a trilogy and the second part is published in Japan, where is the drama equivalent of the original?

M · Knight · Shamaran (Shamaran):
From the fifth episode to the sixth episode of the drama Part 1Pines - beautiful hell -"The second half is a form that deviates from the original.

Q:
Do you mean that you arranged it from the original?

Shamaran:
Actually, when I started taking pictures, only "Pines" was still available, and in the second half I was writing at the same time as Mr. Blake Crouch, so there was no original to be helpful.

Q:
Broadcasting started simultaneously from 125 countries and regions including Japan on Friday, May 15, and the number of viewers of the first broadcasting was 3.8 million people, counting the number of people who watched and recorded in 3 days Although it is said that it doubled, do you feel that which part of episode 1 was the source of reviews that attract people?

Shamaran:
Since the first episode is the first step of forming a puzzle, it becomes a problem of balance as to how much to reveal that the viewer has a mystery, how much to hide the existence of the mystery. For example, "We do not have crickets at Weydward Pines", she just met five weeks ago, "I have 12 years in town", the sheriff is slowly licking ice cream while the incident should have occurred ...... Because these promises are made promising "to be elucidated" by what is presented in a majestic manner, it is human psychology that wants to see what happens. Actually, in the pilot version, we put the mystery "I will reveal here as well", but as I thought, "I thought this was overkill", I moved to the beginning of the third episode There will be.


Q:
"The special agent performs an investigation of a strange town" is "Twin Peaks"Although it can be seen in various works, please tell me why Director Shamaran was attracted by the original if there is a reason.

Shamaran:
It can be said that it is certainly such a format, but if I state my opinion flatly, it is a bit different. For example, if you are driving a car and gasoline is about to run out, and you arrive at a small town and ask the place "Do you have a gas station?", Then a strange answer will come back saying "Do you want a gas station?" ...... It is strange. By doing this, fear suddenly begins. Because of abnormality in everyday, helplessness becomes a fear. When I reach a place that nobody knows, it is somewhat strange that everyone's movement is somewhat funny, I think that such fear is attractive.


Q:
Even in the past SF, there are works like "getting strangely into a strange city", "People around show people behaving like a different person", but do not you like those settings?

Shamaran:
I do not like being bound by one genre. Even though I have been watching this work for a long time, it is the second half what kind of genre works are revealed. So, while looking like "Twin Peaks", some people are confused as "Which genre is it?" It is fun to say that "deprive the audience's initiative". Originally, I thought it would be fun to mix various genres, I thought that there are no genres that do not fit. My new movie "The Visit" scheduled to be released this autumn has become a very interesting work though it is a horror movie. Even if it feels difficult to coexist, it is possible.

Q:
In another interview before, "My foot is based on the artistic nature of" I "and the other foot is entertaining, I am fighting." "Desire to make more challenging and complex works Although it is biased toward "I", but I do not want to sacrifice entertainment, I answered that this is the fight in me now, but artistic and entertainment What kind of things are you paying attention to balance sex?

Shamaran:
Just because I found both sides of it in this work, I said "YES" when I got a story. Because philosophical elements are hard to see at first, you can enjoy the elements of entertainment strongly in the first half. However, when all the speech finishes, something like a philosophical theme comes in something, so the meaning of details assembled in the works stands out and fun increases.

Q:
As you gradually move toward the second half, you will see something other than entertainment?

Shamaran:
Exactly. Actually, there are elements other than entertainment from the first episode, but only you are not aware (laugh). That will gradually come out on the surface.


Q:
Have you made a full-scale participation in these long-length TV series, and was there any difference from movies?

Shamaran:
Of course, as a matter of time, the TV series takes longer to produce, right? But because I did not supervise at all episodes, thanks to that I was able to take a movie in the meantime. At the same time, I also felt the interest of "Will it be that way?" I have been thinking that what would happen if other director took it from long ago, and that people who saw themselves and other directors and two versions are also interesting. For example "227 days drifting with Life of Pie / TigerI was planning to take a picture, but ultimately Director Ann Lee took a picture. Then, it was finished in a work different from the vision I was thinking, I thought "This is interesting". This time, "Wayward Pines" revived the sense of that time. When I handed the screenplay to the director of each story, it was different from the vision that was inside of me. I am convinced about each direction.


Q:
Did you make "We Word Pines" this time and found anything that could be useful for future work?

Shamaran:
There were lots, lots of it. For example, in shooting a drama, I have to shoot the next step more quickly, so I do not see playback just because I finished shooting the scene. But I took it as a movie and confirmed it. If I failed, I took it again and confirmed ... ... so I took a lot of time. Originally, since the television has to make it in the limitation, it is necessary to go shooting with a specific shot. There are ten episodes, but for example if you review the second episode / third episode, if there is a part that thinks "this was not enough", the director shooting 5 episodes will be asked "Do you take these kind of things? You can connect the material and insert the material later.


"The Visit" introduced this method, taken as soon as possible, put in a 3-week break, edited in the meantime, and made a schedule to shoot again when a break opened. Instead of shooting it on the spot, I felt it was not enough in the editing work, I took a picture of the part I thought was not going well, I took it from another direction. Then, it worked as if it was doing a thrill. It seems to have been rewritten as "This answer is a mistake, so let's do this" after the answer is returned in the test (haha)


Q:
I think that it is close to how to make a classic movie not to look back what I took, but what do you think the director thinks?

Shamaran:
As a human being writing a script, I regret sorry that my birth was late. That's because you use a PC instead of a typewriter when writing a screenplay. If you are a PC you can edit a phrase, while you write it, but if it is a typewriter it will not be, basically it will continue to write with a flow of consciousness. Then, a commitment to what you are writing comes out clearly. This may be similar to how to shoot the current image and how to shoot it in the past. Looking at playback and changing ... .... It is the way it is now, because it is an old way to keep shooting with intuition without seeing playback.


Q:
After grasping the contents of part 3 of the original, it is a dare question. This "We Word Pines" is believed even if it is told that "Director Shamaran was actually writing the original" or "It is one trick that itself is supervised by M · Night Chamarran" That's the work, but as Director Shamaran, who has worked on scripts and directors with numerous works, where is the interesting and interesting thing about this work?

Shamaran:
First of all, there is an atmosphere like "Twin Peaks", and contrasting with when mystery was done is an exciting place. It made me confidence that I can do it. That mystery was also a magnificent scale that I had never done before so I felt a lot of charm.


Q:
I see. Thank you very much.

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