15 years after the premiere of cloverfield, its director Matt Reeves confirms the origin of the iconic monster. One of the many virtues of the aforementioned film is that very little was explicitly explained, thus generating an intense conversation among the audience based on those mysteries. Although this movement was an incidental decision by its creators, a decade and a half later, perhaps they feel more free to speak things frankly.
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, cloverfield released a physical edition in 4K format and the design of a steelbook. As a result of this news, director Matt Reeves offered some interviews to the media and during his conversation with syfyrevealed in detail the origins of his monster.
When the film hit theaters in 2008, we learned a lot about the consequences of the incident, but nothing about the origins of the monster. In the film, an unknown creature attacks New York City and everything is filmed with a video camera that had the initial purpose of documenting a party.
Some fans theorized that the creature came from the sea; while others argued that it came from outer space. Of course, those devoted to conspiracies believed that it was a government experiment gone wrong. But now, finally, Matt Reeves has the definitive answer:
“It’s extraterrestrial. In fact, at the end of the movie, you can see the moment he arrives on Earth. It’s another one of those little moments like easter eggs But when we watch that footage again, where they are on the ferris wheel at the end, you can see the meteor flying and hitting the ocean. That’s actually why the baby is on Earth.”.
When Matt Reeves refers to his creature as a baby, he does not do so as a product of emotional attachment. In fact, he also explained why the monster’s behavior is as we see it in the film.
In some city-destroying monster movies, the motivations are usually evil. Simple hatred for humans, or a colonizing agenda by a species that intends to settle on Earth. However, what happens with the monster cloverfield It’s something a little different.
“You have to figure out how to direct the monster so to speak. So you have to understand what is going on with them emotionally. And for me, the big secret was that the monster was a baby and he was experiencing separation anxiety,” Reeves explained. “The reason the monster was going crazy is because he was looking for his mother. And so, he was just as scared as the main characters, because it seems like there would be nothing scarier than the human element fighting this giant monster. And in reality, they are both terrified. That’s a disaster. That’s not good. So that part was absolutely something we talked about in the development of the creature and in terms of how I filmed it.”
Matt Reeves created a film that focuses on the fear of the unknown. Both humans are unaware of the monster that attacks their cities, and the monster is unaware of its surroundings. That gives the film a different look and certainly a more emotional one.
cloverfield enjoyed a viral advertising campaign supported by mystery. To date it is one of the best campaigns in memory. The results are still observed and understood as being the movies of found footage most successful of all time. If you want to relive it, you can rent or buy it on digital platforms such as Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube and Claro Video.
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