Interview with Slumdog Millionaire Director Danny Boyle – /Film. I had the opportunity to sit down one on one with director Danny Boyle at the 2. Toronto International Film Festival.

We talked about his new film, Slumdog Millionaire, which hit theaters this week in some markets. I even got a chance to ask him about a third film in the 2. Days Later series. Peter Sciretta: I had talked to you before this film became such a film festival success. Everybody seems to love it. Danny Boyle: I feel a little bit numb really, you know.

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· I had the opportunity to sit down one on one with director Danny Boyle at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. We talked about his new film.

It was like four weeks ago we were dead and buried in Central North America really. We were dead and you couldn’t really see any way out of it because Warner Bros is a big studio. They don’t know how to release this kind of film. And then we had the grace, thank God, to show it to Peter Rice who was like, “Fox Searchlight are the experts”. You couldn’t dream of somebody like that to release this kind of film. And they put it in Telluride, in [Toronto] and you get the kind of responses that we’ve had. It’s unbelievable really, and it’s a funny place, India, making the film there.

These kind of things happen and there is a kind of reason that they happen. And you can’t quite explain — and you sound like a bit of a hippie idiot when you start going on about it, but there is– it’s bizarre the way it works. Empire Of The Sharks Full Movie In English. Peter Sciretta: So as they say “it’s written.”Danny Boyle: [Laughs] Well, that’s what I mean.

It’s really weird. And it’s happened on a number of occasions to us throughout the making of the film. And you have to be prepared for it. You have to be relaxed and actually accept your destiny is going to be written in a funny kind of way.

Rather than going around screaming and shouting about, blaming people and all these kind of things. You have to relax and trust that you’ve been honest and respectful in a way that you’ve made the film, and that it’ll find it’s way. And so far it seems to be doing that thank God, yeah. So it’s weird, very weird. So hence, I feel a bit numb. I’m not quite sure, I kind of feel a bit dazzled really, and I shouldn’t be. Peter Sciretta: When I first heard about the film, the only thing that really attracted me to it was your name.

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Because at first glance, the concept of Who Wants To. Be A Millionaire…Danny Boyle: Yeah, I felt the same way about that show. Yeah, I thought, I don’t want to film about that show. It’s like I don’t know whether I like that show, I don’t think I do. I know when I watch it, it’s kind of compulsive viewing and there’s something vile about it and– but there’s also something wonderful about it which is why it’s a huge success around the world.

And the great thing about it is you can tell the underdog story through it, because– and obviously that’s what we use it for is a device by which an underdog, a guy who apparently has nothing, climbs this ladder, apparently, and you climb it with him. And some of the questions and answers you can work out, and some of them are guesses. But because he’s got that relaxed thing I was talking about, about the beginning, about being kind of– he’s got that as well because his agenda for being on the show isn’t just to win the money, it’s something else as well. Faith Episode 20 Eng Sub. And because he’s after that, he’s kind of like, “Okay, I’ll guess,” and he gets it right. Anyway…Peter Sciretta: So you had hesitations going in to this.

What made you choose this project? Danny Boyle: They sent the scripts, and my agent, I think says, if I remember it, they said, It’s about “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” And I said, “Why would I want to make a film about that?” But I saw his name on it, Simon Beaufoy’s name, and he’d written The Full Monty, and I knew his work, and I thought, that’s– there aren’t many really good writers in Britain. I thought I should read it out of respect for him and then I can write him a note or something. And seriously, page 2. I was like in. I just knew, I– what I say is you get this kind of like, the really great decisions you make, you get this common sense amnesia, like, then it just goes out the window. It’s like they say women after childbirth, what this drug is released in them that makes them forget all the pain they’ve been through. It’s a bit like the pain of making a film is nowhere apparent.

You say, “Oh, I’ll do that, that’s amazing. What a great story.” And I was in, I could feel it. And then your job is to try and get– make the audiences feel like you felt when you first read that script, that feeling you got, wow, the journey. It’s unexpected and it kind of evades you, and then suddenly you realize, I love the complexity of it like that and the big high it has, the underdog story and the love story. Peter Sciretta: The thing is, it really isn’t about a game show at all.

Danny Boyle: At all, no. It’s just a device. It’s just a device and the guy who runs it is an absolute cunt < laughs> He starts off being all smarmy, but actually he’s an egomaniac, and you realize that’s what the show is. It’s kind of like, it’s supposed to be bigger than its contestants, where as in this case this contestant is bigger than the show. Hey Jessie Season 3 Episode 1 there. Peter Sciretta: I’ve never seen India like It was photographed in your film.

It was incredibly vivid, you see everything from the the slums to the Taj Mahal. Danny Boyle: And also the incredible development that’s going on though, they’re building tower blocks daily, just springing up.

The whole landscape’s changing. It’s in flux, enormous flux and they, as an economy. At the moment obviously, the biggest economy in the world is America, and everybody knows about China. But India’s right behind you guys and it’s coming. There’s going to be a lot of changes in the world in the next 5.

So it’s amazing to make a film that’s actually kind of a little bit– looks a little bit into that. Peter Sciretta: It’s funny, because you don’t only just touch upon the landscape, but also explore the reason – outsourcing, which ends up as part of the story. Danny Boyle: Yeah. Very much so, it’s a key part of it. These incredible call centers. I didn’t realize… We went in these call centers, it’s just so stupid, so obvious. The call center tradition is you ring up someone, you get this strange sounding person pretending to be familiar with you and your culture, and they’re not.

They’re millions of miles away. But that’s not their main job. Their main job is when you book a ticket on virgin. India. So they don’t have to talk to you, it’s just computers. That’s the vast majority of their work.

And I never realized that, seems so obvious. I take it so for granted that when I order a book on amazon. Peter Sciretta: Oh really?

So you’re saying it’s not just the people talking to you, it’s also the people processing. Danny Boyle: Well that’s just proportion of it. It’s the processing is the major part of it, which I didn’t realize.

When you book a rail ticket online, it goes through India before it comes back to you. Peter Sciretta: I didn’t know that. Danny Boyle: I know, it’s absolutely amazing, isn’t it? Peter Sciretta: It is pretty amazing.

Danny Boyle: There was no way we could show that in the story, but, so we go for the comic version which is he gets this Scottish woman on the– with a really fake Scottish accent, and he’s trying to talk to her in his Indian accent. Peter Sciretta: There must have been a lot of challenges shooting it in India.

I’ve heard India is pretty strict when it comes to film projects. Danny Boyle: Yeah government permission is tricky.