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Spoiler Question For The Director

posted 13 years ago by amac80
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In the scene where the religious dude gets overpowered in the shed, what was the point of him being covered in petrol? Was it the intention of the writer/s to use fire as his death but it was too difficult to pull it off?

I was also waiting for him to use the chainsaw. He picks it up, looks at it and I was thinking "Oh, this will be used later on. That's why we're being shown it now." But then nothing. Was this also something that couldn't be done? Death/mutilation by chainsaw?

Just wondering. Thanks.

[–] Doug_Turner 13 years ago

Hi,

Killing him by fire/petrol would've gone against his plan of offing them all using cricketing implements. It was always in the script like that from an early draft, so not a budgetary decision - although true, it would've been too expensive and dangerous to do well (we'd have had to get safety officers on set etc). So basically the killer was teasing him with the petrol/lighter!

Chainsaw was never in the script - we only found it when we got to the shed where we were filming, so we just used it as a little nod to TCM and Evil Dead really - had no intent on using it. Again, killer only used cricketing implements, so a chainsaw would've gone against that.

Cheers, Doug.

[–] Christian1971 13 years ago

Doug,

Another question, what is the cricket ground used just before the guy gets killed in his car ? Looks like one i played on before, but can't place it.
Enjoyed the movie, glad you didn't make it when i was 10 and just started playing cricket !

There's nothing like a warm fire and a SuperSoaker of fine cognac - Bender

[–] Doug_Turner 13 years ago

Thanks mate!

The team were Wahroonga, and they were playing at the St Ives pitch.

Oddly, when I wrote the script I'd just used a random place name I'd heard - and it was Wahroonga. We didn't line up a team or pitch until we started casting, and we met Jeff Bye - unfort didn't have a bigger part for him, but he was great as the opposition captain... and he was the captain of the real Wahroonga team, and arranged for us to shoot his team during a game.

PS - most of his team were still drunk for a big party they had the night before - suffice to say, they didn't win!

[–] Christian1971 13 years ago

Ah, well there you go, I played two seasons at St.Ives 10 years ago and have made the slow sad walk back to the car, bat in hand, a few times. Thaks for the reply, couldn't get the familiarity out of my head.

There's nothing like a warm fire and a SuperSoaker of fine cognac - Bender