The Creator Movie Plot Featurette
The Creator movie Director Gareth Edwards and his cast members John David Washington and Allison Janney discuss the themes and processes of making a sci-fi film like this. Check it out.
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00:00 My favorite cinema is very visually driven.
00:03 It's not like a play.
00:05 It's like a dream.
00:07 It's just a pure emotion.
00:09 This film's a melting pot of movies I grew up loving.
00:16 Go, go, go!
00:18 A Vietnam movie mixed with robotic sci-fi.
00:22 They've come for the child.
00:24 Gareth has this ability to inject compassion
00:28 in a sci-fi genre
00:30 that usually leans on spectacle and danger.
00:34 Fire!
00:35 Gareth Edwards, he is a visionary.
00:38 And these characters are all relatable
00:40 and you fall in love with them.
00:42 I thought, "Oh my God, sign me up. I want to be a part of this."
00:45 What jumped out was the magical realism that he was able to execute.
00:50 The depth and the motion that he was able to capture in every frame.
00:55 They're my family.
00:56 They're not people, Maya.
00:57 They're not real.
00:58 You and I are real.
00:59 This isn't real.
01:00 Okay, and cut. Good.
01:01 The film deals with a lot of big themes like
01:05 what does it mean to be human?
01:07 And what does it mean to be alive?
01:09 And can love transcend those divides and boundaries?
01:12 You're my friend?
01:14 Should we embrace it? Should we destroy it?
01:17 Everyone ready? And action.
01:19 Gareth shoots in a way that a lot of actors love
01:23 because he doesn't like to cut.
01:25 Keep going, keep going.
01:27 I love that process where we do these rounds of just takes.
01:31 He operates the camera himself.
01:34 You know, he knows what he wants.
01:36 Gareth, you're not afraid to try anything.
01:38 And anything goes.
01:40 We really went for broke.
01:44 It's just a really insane, rich, visual journey
01:48 that I hope affects people in the way that I was affected
01:52 when cinema blew my mind as a kid.
01:54 [Gunshots]
01:56 Hey, give it back!
01:58 What are you doing? What are you doing?
02:01 [Gunshot]
02:02 [Gunshot]
02:04 [Gunshot]
02:05 [Gunshot]
02:07 (whooshing)