Ten years ago, John McLean He launched his first appearance in directing The slow West At the Sandans Film Festival, and in this western film in the 1960s, the writer and director, the residents of the story with immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Scotland who were all mixed on the American border with the indigenous Americans. For his second directing effort tornadoThat opened Glasgow Film Festival On Wednesday, Scottish Helmer applied a similar hypothesis.
“The slow West McCloyan was inhabited by people all over the world and wanted to suggest the same thing in Britain. There was little exit from the Samura because they were changing the situation all the time in Japan and became less warriors and more weapons to rent, or swords for rent, and toured. Therefore, they made them wander in Britain in 1790. ”
tornado Stars Tim RothJack Ludine and Japanese stars Kōki and Takehiro Hira (SHōGUN). The film, which is located in the rough landscapes in Britain in the 1960s, follows Tornado (Kwiki), a young and firm woman who finds herself in a dangerous position when she and her father (Hera) who travels Samurai (Hera) cross Samurai. In an attempt to create a new life for herself, Tornado seizes the opportunity to take things in her hands and steal gold from her last theft.
“This period in Britain was a turning point for the industrial revolution,” McLean says. “There is a strong tradition in Britain from the drama period that revolves around the class, kings and queens, but I just wanted to make something about strangers at that time.”
It is a project that was a long time to make Maclean first in writing the text program for tornado In 2017, he closed in Japanese cinema, especially the works of legendary director Akira Korosawa. “The thing I loved in samurai films was accumulating in stories, then any kind of violence is very fast and not exploitative.”
With the completion of the text program in 2018, the director admits to stop the project from the land that it represents a major challenge. “It took a long time to raise financial affairs,” he says. “It took a long time to find people who want to do it. I think it was just something different, which is always more difficult.”
The presence of actors who included actors with a good reputation such as Ruth Wouwiden, and McLean is attributed to “Karam them” in working on a movie that is mostly suspended on the newcomer Kwiki.
He says: “They are generous actors to say yes to this because it is a group and they should all be under Kōki – it’s really her movie.” “Therefore, to get people like Jack Ludine spend two or three days tending to a tree in the background while photographing another person, this is a severe generosity and not every actor is interested in that.”
tornado It is produced by Leonora Darby, James Harris and Mark Lin to produce tea. The low -budget film (less than $ 5 million) was secured by Angeland Hill and the Scotland screen, with Hanway films the title of Lionsgate in the UK and IFC Films and Shudder in the United States
“This is my second film, and we made it for money much less than The slow West“This is not the trend you really want,” McLean admits. “But I felt that this story did not need much money. It seemed like that if all the concerned – and they were if hand -made fashion to shoot 35 mm – we can make this with a low budget and reduce the text and characters to what is very necessary. Worse.
For Maccine, the enemy time was in this narrow photography. tornado It was filmed for 26 days in January 2024, ten miles outside Edinburgh and Malin admitting that he “came to the ground – there was no time to breathe.”
He says: “In a strange way, everyone kept his toes.” “in The slow WestWe had the luxury filming some of the scenes that did not make the pieces, while in tornadoWe did not have this luxury. So, everything you see in it tornado Is there – there is nothing on the floor of the cut room. ”
Maclean is attributed to his film Ruby Ryan, who also collaborated with him The slow WestAs the key to making the movie he wanted. “We have done a lot of comic stories,” he says. “Then it was a matter of Robbie Room to make magic with light and camera. The combination of the work plate and the ability to use light was the final cooperation.”
Lionsgate is a launch tornado In the role of cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on May 23.
