J.J.Abrams has been doing press junkets to get the word out on his splended filmmaking kids on an adventure throwback flick 0 Super 8. In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting.com, he dropped an interesting metaphor for how he understood the importance of the human element in a movie like Super 8.
“There’s a stupid thing that I do sometimes when I’m doodling, which I’m always doing, which [is] I draw like a circle, and then I…shade it, and draw a little horizon line so it goes from just being this circle to being a…three-dimensional [object]“, he began.
“But then…whenever I draw a little figure next to it of a certain size, maybe very small, suddenly that circle…becomes this thing of scale. It’s weird how suddenly… there’s an importance to it, only because of the person, the figure that’s standing there. There’s a weird thing that happens, when you connect a person to an event…Suddenly the event has [a] different meaning.”
Please visit Bloody Disgusting for the complete interview. Check out our review for Super 8 right here on Mutantville.com.
