“I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingKindTwoDifferentWholeStoriesUseYoungUsedJourneyGood ThingsPostsDifferent KindsYoung WomenTwo WaysApocalypticPost ApocalypticShorthandCopycats Author:Neil Burger
“If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.” IfsWayEndsCharacterMightCertainJourneyIntegrityOppositesOne WayDramaticPolar Opposites Author:Neil Burger