Why 10 Cloverfield Lane is more suitable than ever during an epidemic

The coronavirus epidemic has led to a need for confirmation of myths, but the desire for survival stories is limited by the re-emergence of offspring in movies that deal with the tragedy we encounter. Steven Soderbergh & # 39; s Contagion, who is excited about the epidemic around the world, is back in popularity. 2016 film 10 Cloverfield Road it has been wrong again and again, too, as the film takes place almost entirely within the basement of an event after an apocalyptic incident that only makes breathing of the outside air more dangerous.

According to director Dan Trachtenberg, it's not just an image that portrays a lonely isolation and the film's recent performance. From the confines of the home, Trachtenberg talked to Polygon about thinking about the film and, days ago, turned to heavy video games to find a sense of comfort, his work on Unread movie, too 10 Cloverfield RoadS the end of the dispute.

(Vol. Note: Speakers for 10 Cloverfield Road follow.)

When you look at your Twitter feed, it seems like most people have the same opinion when it was closed: Time to revisit 10 Cloverfield Road. Has the movie been on your mind lately?

The only thing that happened to me immediately, I reached out to a production designer – who was actually working on The Lord of the Rings It's a TV show in New Zealand, so I didn't hear about it right away – but I was like, "What did we learn again? What should I have, which food is long lasting? ”Because you did a lot of research that wasn't a big part of the movie, but we met a lot of amazing people. Of course I was like, "I wish we had more traffic."

I was in Toronto and we were going to shoot the pilot, then it was finally turned off and we had to go back. Just the thought of, "Closed, we're going, the boundaries may not allow us to cross," at that moment, it feels more terrifying than it is now. We didn't know if we were going to return to Los Angeles and it would seem Walking Dead. I didn't know what it would sound like, so at that moment, I was like, “Oh, my God, do I need a gun? Do I need a bed? Do I build a ship after the flood? In that way, the movie came to my mind.

You actually interviewed people who had bunkers before they were ready 10 Cloverfield Road?

There is a place that is a couple of hours north of Los Angeles. We've met some of those people, we've met so many places, none of them as fun as Howard's pad. We actually took some artistic license. There are some more amazing places. There are underground hotels and overpriced material. Someone had made some school buses. Some of it is an underground school and is very well built, and then there are some overweight, types of things to see in Dubai. We have had a lot of different ideas, some of which people are building small houses exterior, containers, storage containers. We did as much research as one would like to do.

That "building the ark after the flood" did not appear in the original text. That whole section wanted him (Howard) to have a point, he wanted him to be good at it. I've always felt like, I don't understand why we wear seatbelts, why we wear helmets when we ride bicycles. In hindsight, if we all go wearing helmets, just in everyday life, we will be safe. If we all wear a mask anyway, as some cultures do when they are sick, we will be safe, but we don't. Why do we? Where is that based? Not that the movie really explores that, but it does happen to me. We can completely change the culture with masks. We can start to become a culture that puts on a mask when we are sick just because, and it takes getting up and getting to the safety of something to make such a change.

That is one of the really shocking things in the movie, when you see that Howard is right and something is going on outside.

The movie was always controversial Sadness either Dead Body, that things start to get normal, and then slowly, "Wait, maybe this isn't what I was thinking." This one starts, "I think you're crazy, this one's crazy," and we say, "Wait, maybe you're right." And of course, the flexibility between them. There is an "if ever."

I don't want to say-perfect, but there was actually a studio note (with less life). Two good additions to the movie, I think, "Let's have some fun." If you're stuck and can't do anything, what can you do to be happy there? The entire montage category was missing from the original draft. That included a comment from Mark Evans, who was in charge of the studio, who knew that there should be a full complement of their entertainment. So we got all the board game stuff, as well as the puzzle. There was another studio head who said, "By now, they should be eating ice cream. I feel like it was the end of the world, I would be eating all the ice cream." however, it is a kind of acceptance of the idea that, if the world ends, there will be more ice cream.

I'm not saying we're at the end of the world, but in this time of crisis, we've all embraced watching movies and playing video games. I started playing Article 2. I never played Article 2. Sec it's about an epidemic that destroys the world and the rest of mankind. Also Conan captives, and this game Albion Online, which is a survival game of fiction.

One of the inventions made for the movie was Wes Craven's rating. He said that horror movies do not create fear, they evoke, and that horror movies are places of the soul. I thought that was so strange, because the world is unknown. Scary things are things we have no control over. But when we see these films, it's a way of getting through a set of experiences that feel managed. But you know eventually, there will be a decision, and you will feel like you have a handle on it. That is the whole thing in this movie – these people all experience the fear of the unknown in different ways. Some of them run away, others try to bottle it, and one of them says, "I'm just trying not to think about it."

I'm sure we all experience different times when we might be like the three, but I think that's why I'm playing this video game, and why people are watching this movie and watching Contagion, because they want to feel like, “Is there a solution to this? Can I understand this somehow? ”Because the news just sounds like," Oh, my God, I don't know if people know what the heck is going on. "

So Article 2 and Conan captives are they not the types of games you will be playing in general?

I've been to those games from time to time, but I'm like, “I want to play Article 2. ”Part of it is that I got a new graphics card, and it's a great game. But also, I was looking for catharsis of, "I could take care of myself in the post-apocalypse." I wanted to feel reassured about that, I guess? I don't know. But yeah, I think it's the intellectual insight that I found myself in, at this moment in time.

I learned that you had your PlayStation 4 with you while you were shooting 10 Cloverfield Road. What were you playing at that time?

I was playing Desiny, which had just come out, too Warframe. Multiplayer games. I had some friends at home, and it was a way of communicating, because we were shooting in Louisiana. Those two games weren't the same movie I was doing, they were different. It wasn't researched, it wasn't that I'd play games that would put me in that mind, or anything like that.

I could see that you were upset about you Animal Crossing in relation to Boat Seekers. Have you ever played Animal Crossing?

No. I started playing Need Hackers 2. It's also survivable, creative, from the beginning – but it's a much more beautiful world than some of these games, so it's very comforting. I was not played Animal Crossing. Dragon Quest it looks like the same thing but there is war, which I feel I need, and I can totally create things. I'm worried that maybe I'll rebuild my home, or make a Star Wars. I will make a goal to achieve. With Animal Crossing, I feel like you are limited. I don't want to talk I turned around, feeling like they were so similar. You do the same things, except you can do more inside Boat Seekers, in my view. Tell me, am I right?

There is definitely no war Animal Crossing, but you get to the terraform after a while.

All right. Keep me out of the way Red Redemption 2. That came from PC while I was there. It's heavy. I immediately went in Red Dead Online. It began with its smirk, "Can I do it for myself, here, with my horse and gun?

How has this piece been to you so far? Are you playing with strangers or with strangers?

Honestly, I just played a tutorial, which is like playing a one-player game. I've never met other people. But some of the games I played were … I played it The World of War ever, so I'm still keeping that, playing with rands. In Conan, I have the best experience – Conan captives similar The ship, you're one of those sandboxes, survival, design games – I was building anything and then I had to go out and get the equipment, I ran into two people who were like, “Hey man, you know where we can get firewood? Where are the trees? ”And I was like,“ That's all. What are you looking for? ”And they are like," We are building our foundation! " And they showed me their stuff. “Do you have stables? Free! ”In to push-talk! We were talking to each other. It was friendly, comforting, awesome, and it made me want to play so much more. “Wow, that's fine. I can meet some nice people in the field here. ”It helped that I was behind PvE. I wasn't on a PvP server, so there was no gank power, or I would be if it were.

While on the subject of sports, what was your experience working on Unread movie?

What drew me to this project was to achieve the dream I had. The first time I saw the trailer, there was an E3 presentation I had saved for my computer, and I still have it on my computer because I've watched that trailer so many times. It was just Teesser, it was a bunch of baseball jerseys and biscuits, acting like Indiana Jones or an actor in Pitfall. I loved that, and at that time I had written with a studio person I knew while I was directing advertising like, “We have to make this movie. It's not out yet. PlayStation 3 hasn't been released yet, and if it does, this will be like Mario with PlayStation. I'm sure many people feel the same way.

But the last chance I filled in was the feelings I had when I first realized this tea was imitating. And part of my upcoming venture would include Neil Druckmann, who will be the lead designer for the game series, for number four in particular, and apparently Last to Us, again. We became friends, and I wanted to put her in the process and do something that was very welcoming to the idea of ​​the actress, that story, and that character, and also did all the things that I did that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, through cinema.

And I think Tom Holland is a movie star and it's amazing, and his presence allows the movie to exist in a way that the games don't, so it can be its own thing. We found some really cool stuff, and a really cool MacGuffin, and cool stuff that I'm sad not to be a part of today. But what I wanted to do and what the studio really wanted was a bad script. So that was the end of it.

What is the pilot you worked with before this illness?

It was called Langdon. It was something like a prequel to Da Vinci Code. It's the story of that character before we know him Da Vinci Code and as Tom Hanks in the movie, and as the character in the books. It was for NBC.

Will you be directing another series when production picks up again?

I don't know. It was two days before we shot, so we hadn't fired it yet. Now the big question mark: Is it still possible? Will we go back to doing it? They might take the series instead of doing pilots, on rumors I heard. I have no idea.

About the end of 10 Cloverfield Road, what did you think of it when you first read it? The end seems to be the end –

– It's a debate, and that people don't like it? (laugh)

I would relate to it Contagion, in both cases again 10 Cloverfield Road emphasizing the importance of taking security measures and staying closed. However 10 Cloverfield RoadMichelle has just passed out.

Right. But also in a suit! With some protection. With a mask. Yes, I did. My wife is sewing, and she started sewing a mask. And I remember that there was some authenticity in the security gear that Michelle created. I would sound really ignorant, but there was something about using coal as a filter, I don't know. I would tell my wife, "Hey, we did some research, maybe you need to put some charcoal in your pocket, in the filter section of the masks that they were making."

There's also something scary about most bunkers, I just remember now, I had sensors or a meter that when the air was safe to go out, and I remember that it wouldn't take long if one thought back on a disaster. That was the largest art license we took, two years (before it was safe to leave). There were various versions, (depending on the difficulty there were) with nuclear bombs and gas weapons or whatever. But it was about two weeks or two months. None of them were years in custody.

As for the last reaction, when I read it, I said, “This is good.” I'm shocked that it was a bad thing for Robots. And when I got to the end, I was like, “Oh! Now I get it. I was happy. I couldn't believe I was going to make a movie that made something like no other movie. There's nothing I can turn to, nothing to lean on. The closest I thought it was From evening till morning, which undergoes a complete genre change, but has 60 minutes. There is Psycho, again, but it's not in this case the same thing. It was a real pleasure to have the opportunity to do something unique.

I understand anyone who doesn't like it. I'm not like, "Well, that's what I like, that people were crazy." I think there are a few elements to why someone would be put off by this conclusion. There might be some filmmaking that could have made it more revolutionary, obviously now I think all along. There is Cloverfield title, which establishes expectations that go to or are opposed to reducing or exacerbating that conclusion. Then there was the very nature of it – he fell in love with the kind of movie it was (and then a different movie). But what a wonderful experience. Not every movie. You can watch Sadness either Calm Dead have a traditional experience, and you can set this up if you want to have a different kind of ride.

But then again, I think that (Michelle) the issue doesn't end when she comes out. If only it had just seen this thing and then we got black, or, "Oh, my God, you're right," or "Well, you're wrong," none of this would have solved his arc. His arc is solved only when he knows there is some danger in one place and safety in another, and he chooses not to run away from his problems again. Some people seem to think that's the hard part. I do not bother with criticism. That wasn't part of the conclusion, in the beginning, the "risk-taking" thing, but generally, sort of from the last act, I thought it was really funny.

Have you ever been interviewed for the continuation of his story?

Just a little. Even before we shot it, it was like, "You know what would be fun to do XYZ." But nothing serious, just some small email thoughts.

Do you discuss in detail how much at first we saw outside the real house, such as pigs, or the lady in the basement of the house with sores on her face?

In my mind, everything is valid. Of course, in the movie experience, you want to sound like, "Did you do that to the pigs?" I think wife is this thing. There is simply no way (Howard could do that), and his plea to be imported. That should feel like the nails in the box of, “Yes, something is going on outside. Whether this guy is cool or not, we don't know, but definitely. The pigs were meant to be, like, he could have caused them or not?

Going back to one of your earlier points, the montage sequence feels like our normal lives now. Besides playing video games, what else have you found to be time consuming?

I have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, so I play keepy-uppy with a balloon, play hide-and-seek and tag, around the block on her balancing bike. Playing Just Dance, which I thought was a good idea because, "Oh, we're going to do some exercise," but you're honored with one song, so we do this one song over and over, and it kills me. I might have chosen something different if I had a time machine. We make puzzles.

If he was just young, we would have made Legos. I've been doing a lot of Legos, and we'll be doing it together. This is my dream, to build Legos. I just had something, too, and I was dreaming and I said, "Well, someday." There is a set of Lego boxes you can build for this ship. And it's not that expensive! I was like, "What the hell is going on here?" So I would start doing that if I didn't have a toddler.

I'm glad you haven't tired of talking about this movie, even for years.

I haven't (talked about it) in a long time. It's nice that it's compatible too. Trump's stuff, frustrated by his lies and deceit, made me feel like something related in the movie again, and now in isolation, even more. For me, I think its relevance is less about the people content. Most important is the fear of the unknown, and the way we deal with it, and three different ways you can deal with something like this.

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