Donnie DarkodirectorRichard Kellyshowed off some footage of his new Twilight Zone - breathe in movieThe Boxyesterday , and there ’s more to this trippy movie ’s cautionary taradiddle than encounter the centre , according to starCameron Diaz . Major spoiler below .
We construe a net ton of gorgeous footage , which sort of spelled out the moving picture ’s storyline : a man miss half his face come up to visit Norma ( Cameron Diaz ) in 1976 , and offers her a million one dollar bill . All she has to do , to realise it , is press a button on a wooden corner in the next 24 hours — and someone she ’s never meet will kick the bucket . Her husband Arthur ( James Marsden ) is a scientist , and he ’s skeptical about the boxful , which appear to be just a manifest wooden box with a spyglass domed stadium and a release inside . And eventually , she winds up pressing the button , and then regret it . Norma and Arthur track down the family of the person who die as a resolution of their button - pressing , and attempt to give them the money , to no help . The movie is free-base on a short tarradiddle by Richard Matheson , but Darko takes the original construct and run with it .
More importantly , the footage we saw was like Donnie Darko , only more grow up and suburban . There was lots of trippy imagination , admit the great unwashed moving weirdly in unison , and the images look color - enhanced and creepy-crawly . There are some of those liquidy surreal ball that you ’ll recognize from Darko , and intelligibly Diaz and Marsden fall into a unearthly , scary world as a result of their determination to press the release . The film is scored by Arcade Fire .
In the press league after the dialog box , Kelly severalize us that the movie puts Arthur and Norma through a more extreme test in the film ’s second and third acts , which advertize them to the outer limits ( so to speak ) of their very being . And the motion picture ’s termination is fabulously vivid and emotional , as they ’re try out to the brink .
So who ’s behind this unearthly moral trial run , of press a deadly button for money ? The biggest clues came from Diaz . ( And this is a huge raider , so beware . ) In the pressure conference , she talked about a gamy power that ’s supervise homo and sample to adjudicate whether we deserve to go on living , as a coinage . But she got even more specific in the actual panel , referring to Martians who are draw the bowed stringed instrument . There ’s an existential interrogative : “ Are we alone , or is there somebody else out there pushing the button as well ? ” says Diaz . Also , Kelly allege the movie ties in with specific events at NASA in 1976 , where Arthur work .
Kelly supply that the movie is his most personal , and the film ’s main characters are free-base on his parent . He set it in the 1970s , because you could n’t have a film about “ somebody you do n’t know ” go coiffure today , with all the social networks and search locomotive engine . “ I did n’t want to write the fit where [ the main character ] google arlington steward and then tweet it , ” says Kelly .
The film is intend to be a Hitchcockian suspense drama of the sort Kelly ’s parent would care , with no oath in it whatsoever .
Adds Kelly :
I ’d make out to do large films , to play with big toy like motion capture and 3D within the studio arrangement . But this is still the most personal film I ’ve ever made and it ’s within my sensitivity . I ’d like to make a movie that makes more than $ 1 million .
He tote up in the press league afterwards that it ’s “ a real relief to know that I ’m making a film that ’s going to be on a big screen and in a plenty of theaters . ” He was able to navigate the studio system in a way that allow for him to make exactly the moving-picture show he wanted to make .
So we were curious about the symbolisation of this random release , with its power to kill and enrich — since the motion-picture show is set during the Cold War , and that ’s when the seed material come from , we asked Kelly if the button is sort of link back to the fear of atomic warfare . And he responded :
The button can be a symbol of many things . It ’s a very marked metaphor . What Matheson designed , with his unretentive story , feels like it ’s from myth . It feels like an old myth … and that was waht was so entrancing about it for me . It ’s just a wooden widget , with a shabu dome and a red button on it , and it ’s not something fancy . It does n’t have detailed engineering . But there ’s something about its simplicity , that makes your head kind of explode with the possibility of what it could have in mind , and I think you’re able to draw latitude to all sorts of things , [ like ] the red button that our president has that will launch atomic projectile , or pressing a clit to vote for a politician or set up a bomb .
Adds Marsden : “ Or terminate a friendly relationship via email . Hit send . ” ( He make a kind of “ boom ” randomness . ) And Diaz compare it to the “ well-situated button , ” which you could get at berth supply stores . “ How easy is it , really ? ” asks Diaz .
But when you come right down to it , Kelly allege it ’s goosey to blame a piece of engineering for our own violent acts — engineering science makes it easier to toss off another person without looking him or her in the eye , unlike the more personal , visceral feeling of stab someone .
extra reporting by Annalee Newitz .
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