The star and the creator of "Paranormal Activity" discuss making genre pictures, violence in films and if "The Purge" could actually come to be.
The Purge is already off to a lively start at
the box office this weekend, having scared up $3.4 million Thursday
night. And on a weekend when the other big release is buddy comedy The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, this early take just goes to show the appeal of horror/thriller genre films for oft scare-starved movie fans.
In 's interview with Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum,
they reveal that they've actually known each other for more than 20
years — first working at a theater company together and most recently,
teaming up on two motion pictures: Sinister and, of course, The Purge.
"The Purge has a lot of crazy socio-political ideas underneath it, it's kind of charged with almost a Clockwork Orange-like
weirdness," Hawke says of their latest collaboration. "I think there's a
fun idea to play with which people, when they get out of the movie,
they talk about a lot, which is cool," adds Blum.
The film touches on multiple societal and political issues
of today, and Hawke addresses the question of this "event's"
plausibility come the relatively near future (the film takes place in
2022), citing the consistently predictive literary works of George Orwell (1984) and Aldous Huxly (Brave New World).
"This movie is a strange entity. It's an extremely ultra
violent film that ultimately advocates a non-violence position, which is
kind of a catch-22."
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