Danny Boyle Explains How ’28 Years Later’ Got its Creepy Poem

Before 28 years later release, you have probably seen its gangsWho presented a recording of the man performing a military song alongside the visuals of the world destroyed from the film and infected. It would be “boots”, a poem of 1903 of Jungle book Creator Rudyard Kipling (and played by Taylor Holmes in 1915) inspired by the monotony of British soldiers who roamed hundreds of kilometers in southern Africa. But it is not only in the trailers, it is also in the film that Spike and his father Jamie leave their isolated community for the infected continent.

Talk to VarietyDirector Danny Boyle explained that the team wanted something like a song or a speech that could “suggest the culture that the island taught for its children”, and which “looked at a time when England was great”. Such behavior, he continued, was “regressive” and “very linked to Shakespeare”, in particular the speech of the day of Saint Crispin Henry V, which tells “the noble heroic English beating the French with their arcs and their arrows”.

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During this research, Sony sent Boyle and the writer Alex Garland the first trailer for 28 years later, And it was like a moment of bulb. “We said to ourselves:” Fucking hell! ” It was surprising in his power, ”he recalls. “The trailer is very good, but there was something more than that of recording [and] poem. We tried it in our archive sequence, and it was as if it was for that. »»

The “boots” have already been used by the American army in the schools of Sere (survival, escape, resistance and escape), and it is ultimately as well as 28 years later. Megan Barbour, musical director of the Buddha Jones advertising firm, heard of the registration of a sere trainee and then sent her to the editor -in -chief of the film. According to David Fruchbom de Sony, this first trailer was to “work on the force of the visuals”, and Buddha finally gave them three versions to choose-from these, the “boots” were “clearly the way to follow”.

The public would certainly seem to agree, because the fans lively THE 28 years later or used Holmes dramatic reading in videos to Star Wars or other films. Boyle described the whole situation as “reverse osmosis”, saying that she “entered the film and seemed to give meaning to a large part of what we were trying to achieve. […] It’s amazing to see how it maintains its impact. »»

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