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In
an interview to collider, James Magold, the director of The Wolverine talked a
little bit about the different language and Wolverine’s mortality in the film.
“…
Because
it takes place in another country with a different language, are we going to
hear a lot of Japanese?
Mangold: Uh huh. What I’ve been
trying to do, for the most part, is have people, when they’re speaking
Japanese, speak Japanese. Many people in Japan are very bilingual and I’m not
playing Hugh as bilingual when he enters the film. As an audience member, you
do ride through. But there’s times where it’s wonderful and he’s a strange in a
strange land. People are talking and you don’t know what they’re saying. You
don’t see subtitles either. You’re just as lost as he is, trying to figure out
who’s saying what to whom. I enjoyed that it would play that way and that there
would be a sense of Oz to it all. A sense that he
steps off that plane and he’s in a strange land that he’s got to decode and a
labyrinth that he’s got to come to understand. That made the film more
elaborate for him.
Again, given that this is not a
film with a gigantic, nefarious force trying to destroy the Earth or take over.
The challenges become different because the plot really is counter to what most
superhero tentpoles are. It’s more of a mystery noir picture and less of a kind
of “will he stop whatever-the-name-is from annihilating these cities or
football stadiums or countries or Earths thrown out of orbit?” The stakes are
much more personal. The stakes are much more grounded and about people that you
hopefully care about. It’s not so much built, hopefully, on “Will the world
survive?” It becomes really important to play on the mystery aspects and
language becomes part of that. It’s culture that you don’t understand from the
beginning and are trying to carve out an understanding of.
...
This
is Hugh’s sixth time playing Wolverine. How important was it to introduce an
element like mortality that we haven’t seen the character deal with on-screen
before?
Mangold: That was one of the
things that seemed like common sense to me. When you have him on his own and
are not doing an origin story, he’s impervious to everything except for some
elaborate forms of death that people can think up. The reality is that you’re
robbing yourself of a kind of simple stakes but, B, the question in total asks
a lot of questions about mortality and about what it is we’re after when we’re
trying to be forever. About love. About suicide. About calamity. About love
lasting beyond the grave. A lot of questions that, to me, are interesting. But
let’s take “First Class” off the table a second because there isn’t much to
talk about besides him making a great cameo in it. In the three existing X-Men movies, he’s part of a team.
He’s on a task force. Therefore, the form of the films and what you see of him
plays out in relation to a kind of round robin of the action in these various
places.
In the one existing solo Wolverine film, it’s an origin story and
has devoted so much of its energy to that and also to other mutants. It never
really got a chance — I guess really the answer is, to me, is that I thought it
was wide open. One of the reasons I took it was that, despite the fact that
there has been a lot of movies, there was this big softball down the center.
You have the right actor. You have the world and an audience that’s going to
come see this thing. You have a chance to do something that feels like what
everyone in the world — including me — wants to see and hasn’t been done. It’s
a chance to focus on him and not have to tell the story of how he became him.
We can tell a story just about him and allow him to explore his rage. To
explore his methods of fighting and conflict. Mystery solving. Love
relationships. All of it without it having to be on the head of a pin and
cutting away because you have to show nine other things.
Also, if there was anything I thought I pulled the reins in for
myself from, it was just that I felt his abilities had started to expand to the
point where I felt he was losing something. I wanted to return him to the
confines of his own abilities. He can’t jump up and pull down a helicopter in
this film. That’s just, for me, I like the level that he’s not Spider-Man and
not Superman. He has claws and he has strength and he’s tremendously
impervious, though not all throughout this film. It’s a little more about anger
and determination and being a kind of Frankenstein monster of both nature and
man. The kind of psychic wounds you carry through life with that. It’s more
about that than just doing cool s–t you haven’t seen before. With some of the
other movies I was tweeting about, I was trying to return it to more a kind of French Connection orBourne style action in which you feel
like it’s occurring in this world and it isn’t so fantastical that you don’t
believe this character exists in this world. One of the things, particularly in
the Marvel Universe, that I felt was so great growing up and reading it was
that it felt like it took place in my world. It didn’t feel like it was some
kind of Disneyland world. That was something that I really wanted to get in
this. It’s very much an adult world.
…”
Here
are the three new character posters for James Mangold’s The Wolverine, starring Hugh
Jackman (Logan/Wolverine), Will Yun Lee (Kenuichio Harada/Silver
Samurai), Svetlana Khodchenkova (Viper), Hiroyuki Sanada (Shingen
Yashida), Hal Yamanouchi (Yashida), Tao Okamoto (Mariko Yashida),
Rila Fukushima (Yukio) and Brian Tee (Noburo Mori).
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| Harada |
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| Mariko |
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| Shingen |
The
Wolverine Official Synopsis:
Based on the
celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most
iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth
in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle
that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed
to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai
steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging
more powerful than we have ever seen him before.
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