We talked about when and the place to do it, and methods to do it and methods to lay in sufficient bread crumbs and clues that whereas it was a giant “holy shit” it wouldn’t be such a left flip that you simply really feel such as you had been kidnapped and dropped into one thing else completely. You’d really feel just like the again of your mind has been main you to some form of reveal. It’s a giant swing and the excellent news is that individuals just like the present sufficient to keep it up by means of the tip of six episodes, so the precise movie noir detective thriller labored by itself.
The even higher information is that it looks as if individuals definitely caught with the present and appreciated the ambition of the swing and that it might truly deepen the character versus taking something away from the advanced, distinctive character that all of us, and particularly Colin, created.
The twist utterly reframes the context of the story and the character. We had seen Sugar deplore violence, present compassion, and admire movie and the opposite issues Los Angeles has to supply. With this twist, how was it viewing humanity and these items by means of the distinctive lens Sugar offers that us homegrown people take without any consideration?
That’s a stunning strategy to describe it. We talked quite a bit concerning the character, as a result of he’s an alien and, in so some ways, so many individuals stay in Los Angeles particularly are aliens, that means that they’re not from Los Angeles. I moved right here after I was 5 – 6, so I used to be a little bit little bit of a transplant. I lived right here for many of my childhood and the overwhelming majority of people that I do know that stay in Los Angeles aren’t from Los Angeles. They arrive right here as a result of they need to work in leisure, as a result of they need to get away from someplace; they arrive right here for a lot of totally different causes.
In our core crew, Fernando Meirelles, our director, shouldn’t be American, he’s Brazilian and coming to Los Angeles from the skin. Colin is clearly not American and got here to Los Angeles from the skin a few years in the past. One thing I feel that’s attention-grabbing about L.A. shouldn’t be solely is it filled with outsiders, nevertheless it’s additionally a metropolis, as a lot as any metropolis on the earth, whose identification has been created by means of movie, particularly movie noir. There’s numerous movie noir that takes place in Los Angeles, numerous the traditional movie noir and the modern classics – whether or not you take into account Chinatown as modern; L.A. Confidential definitely is.
All of us felt like there was one thing individuals would relate to, being a little bit bit outdoors the human expertise. Additionally, such as you say, it could be a recent lens into issues that we take without any consideration, like easy acts of compassion, the kindness of a canine, good films, cool automobiles which are barely forgotten. However by means of an harmless lens – one other factor that we thought was thrilling concerning the character was that, whereas he’s clearly bodily formidable and actually clever, there’s an innocence to him as a result of he hasn’t been, in some methods, ruined by all the totally different ethical complexities of residing in our world. He’s recent to our world and we like that concept very a lot.
