When Danny Boyle and Alex Garland created 28 Days Later in the early 2000s, the world was not clamoring for another zombie movie, but they were tapped into something that the world did need, which was an answer for all the recent violence. Were human beings the virus that had gone too far? Or could we go further? Danny Boyle recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about this and more. Let's take a look at some of his most interesting quotes. When it comes to the origins of 28 Days Later, Boyle says of the zombies, "We felt like for a modern audience, they had to be a credible threat. And that came down to mass velocity, visceral impact, to make it a really scary movie. We used different sorts of cameras, which liberated us in many different ways. There were lots of technical problems with those cameras." - YouTube www.youtube.com As soon as Boyle and his team adopted digital cameras, they knew they had something. It was a movie of our time and spoke to the way we were seeing the world. He said, "It helped us with the deserted scenes. We couldn’t afford to close the bridges of London or to CG huge areas. [Editor’s note: The digital cameras helped the team quickly grab shots of deserted streets in the early morning hours, before they became busy.] But on some of the wide shots, the resolution is so bad that Cillian is literally two green...
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