{"id":248,"date":"2008-11-09T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T00:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:11","slug":"slumdog-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/slumdog-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"[Tenacity] “Slumdog Millionaire”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Horn’s article in today’s Los Angeles Times<\/a> on various challenges that faced director Danny Boyle<\/a>, whose new film comes out in limited release on November 12th:<\/p>\n

Some directors would have moved on and made do with what they had in the can. Others might have scouted another location. A few might have called up a special effects house to re-create the palace in a computer. Yet Boyle rarely has followed custom, and the outside-the-box thinking that has yielded his eclectic filmography also helped Boyle and his “Slumdog Millionaire” team conjure up a novel solution — they sent in a fake documentary crew to get the footage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anne Thompson’s interview for Variety<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Big-budget studio pics are great … for other filmmakers. Danny Boyle thrives when things are lean and focused.<\/p>\n

Boyle’s challenge — one happily embraced — was to make $15 million look like a whole lot more. “I like that tension,” he says. “I don’t want to make a dirty indie film struggling with paltry resources. I want to make a film that looks like it cost $50 million or $60 million.”<\/p>\n

To do that, Boyle jumped into a 12-week shoot on crazy Mumbai locations that changed overnight, deploying a nimble cameraman with a hard drive in a backpack and a gyro with an attached camera lens in his hand.<\/p>\n

“It’s a different way of grabbing reality and it has an intensity to it,” he says. “It lets the mind float off places.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n