The director of the “good boy” speaks with “Does the dog die?” Cup

Good In theaters today and as part of IO9 chat with bin Leonberg—Its the director and participant in the writer, as well as Malik The dog star in the movie, Indy– We asked him about the biggest questions for animal lovers when approaching any A movie that includes a gorgeous puppy: Does the dog die? (If you are a fan of horror, then you know that the possibilities are not great historical.)

We also asked Leonberg about the superficial fear of the film, and some of the subjective hints that were brought down by old horror films that appear along the way.

Obviously, if you don’t see Good However, beware of spoilers to follow up.

“Horror movies, in particular, have trained the masses to expect that dogs often do not make them from the first chapter,” said Leonberg. “The concept that we play is how this dog is in a horror movie that will not enter the basement, or it always stare in empty or suspicious corners in the creeping neighbor. This dog usually does not come out of the first thirty minutes because he expects evil, and the evil powers will come out.”

GoodOf course, different. Andy is the star. It fills the girl’s final role – to invite a different horror cup – and it already reaches the end.

“It is clear that we are telling a story completely from the dog’s perspective. So the dog exists for the entire film, but I think this is part of the reason for investing people in his story,” Leonberg said. “I will say, I think the reason is that the film has achieved good performance in the festival circuit and people are excited to see it is Indi and its performance. So we are excited about people to go (we see in theaters) and have the same experience that the fans of the early festival have gone through. I am pleased, it generates the reaction.”

Idi alive. But Todd, his owner, who is played by Shen Jensen (with some of the suspended works by Leonberg), no. The reason you would like to move to the country – to the old family’s home where his grandfather died a few years ago – we hope that he will recover from an unspecified disease.

But the viewer can soon say you would like more illness than he admitted his hearty sister, who is often fulfilled by phone, so that he can leave it alone. And it becomes clear Good It advances that the “monster” that chases the house may actually be the same death, rotating closer. You would not notice – he cannot realize his existence; It is either very sick or very human, or both-but it is confused and worried that it becomes more aware of it.

“This is a completely fair reading,” Leonberg said when we asked what the creature represents. “I think what I will say is that we wanted, as I mentioned before, (to be) the dog’s point of view as a center for telling the stories and the story itself. So we asked ourselves – a dark figure, a cloak and a skeleton and a dark hanging, this is a logical metaphor for humans, but this does not necessarily mean to a dog.”

He described more on how the creature appears – it is a dark and threatened entity – it can be. He said: “Some of what you see in terms of the paranormal and this number that approaches more and more, we wanted to put it in a context that would be more logical to how the dog sees the ghost of death.” “It is clear that we cannot know and understand that because we cannot ask them. But this was a kind of technical claim to us, how will all this look like?”

While he was sick, she would like a lot of time watching movies on his grandfather’s black and white TV. He will choose horror lovers Mutant and The carnival of souls Among the titles. Both are objective choices; Mutant It is about spreading disease, and The carnival of souls It provides a great hint that Todd’s house is a disinfectant area between life and death.

“Well done, yes,” Leonberg agreed. Both are related to the creativity and practical story. The carnival of soulsFor the exact reason I mentioned, it is one of the origins of the Cup of the dead but unaware. Obviously, the most famous, The sixth meaning Run with that. There is an element of this on hand when this film appears in our movie. And music The carnival of souls It is so cool that it makes a nice lyric bridge between two types of ends of the movie. “

He continued. And then Mutant He has some resonance with narration of stories, but it also puts a very specific intimidation because of what you see is reflected on the TV versus what is happening with Indy. So there are a lot of fun similarities, and we were very specific in choosing all of this. “

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