Companion Direct Hancock Director in Robots, Relationships, and SCI-Fi Strills

In a shiny place of CompanionYou get a meeting-good among a good man and perfect girlfriend. Josh (Jack Quad) and Iris (Sophie Thatcher) look like the IDyllic Rom-com couple, Greofy boy and Out-of-League’s beauty who could not live without Him. To hold? She is robot and bought her friendship to be entire the need.

Io9 is caught by Filmmaker Drew Hancock Talking on inspiration after her The Women of Stepford-Tinged, “Temper girlfriend” Android Romantic Thriller. There Companion It is about the girl in Robot, the II-II character features are true because Josh are actually – and you do not have a landscape of the country as someone else’s property.

“I think for me, my way comes in to make Iris as well as being known as a character, I think, what is its emotional journey?” How related to people watching? “Hancock shared.

Sophie’s Thatches’s Iris looks a little like Zooey deschanel to 500 days of summer period, and the similarity is not over there: Both women is the love of SCHMuck that force her self-esteem, thinking she would see her even if Deschanel’s character did Summer). “I think the matter with magic of the movie and the operation of Sophie is that this is a drama of relationships in its pit,” Hancock said. “This is not a great idea that Ai is, this is about AI It’s like a lot of us. And we all have been in the most beautiful relationship.

It would not be surprising if Iris’ Robot Template is based on that kind of manic Pixie dreams of JOH, doing it is based on the goal. It is almost like a shell built by the emotional activity of the emotional work. “Iris is literally organized, organized,” Hancock said. “But that of me was fun of it – the pleasure of including Ai as a place of catching a happy illness as Lifester syndrome.

It is not surprising that even a logical robot that may be tolerated, when they see that they are a robotic detector of the poisonous nature of Incel Incel.

The QUIWwe is indeed getting off her character; You are a lovely doofus person for one second and the menace after everyone next. The actors play well and shut each other between the good and the bad of their relationship to find real themes to brighten the features of SCI-Fi Partner. “That is a sign of them, just in their abilities as the characters. [let’s give] You are famous for her to take a line likeSmileAnd make you happy ‘and do what is bad to say to someone, but it is actually playing this kind as Doofy’s way,’ I like this guy ‘although she says bad things. “

And Tacher’s Iris has its own moment when they pulled the intolerance line that, after working in Josh in the original OT. “Something is at his work. Do you say what I mean?” Hancock said the exposure of that “organized iris illustration. “Like something sounds wrong when you look at the movie, and that’s all that comes from Sophie, that is what your whole ability.”

The film reveals that even the Robote Romance may even be a refinement of robots in this regard as the future reality of Ai and Ai are already improved prototype models. “That was very important to me. I don’t want to come from judgment. This can just come from Josh’s view. But this is a good use of the world,” Hancock said. “And that’s like a point behind AI, right? It’s like a tool, you can use the good, you can use the bad.

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There is also something of the disaster in it in this account and the relationship between the film. Companion validate Popecre-gene-devorn flick gear. “TThe complete point was because I was in my work where I didn’t want jobs I want, “Hancock said. I love you Strain. I love anything for robots or things like serial killers or ghosts. But I didn’t get those jobs. So I was like, ok, well, maybe you have to write something like showing your favorite movies. And so I mean, like 10 tones in this movie. There are 10 types in this movie. And I am just kind I try everything, like a little putting InstructorSlightly putting off the brothers united, slowing as a Heist. So just throw everything on the wall and see which sticks. “

Companion It opens this Friday, January 31.

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