TORONTO, Canada —Academy award winning director Danny Boyle set a challenge for the crew of “127 Hours”, his picture that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this Sunday.
Based on a true story, “127 Hours” tells the true tale of young American explorer, Aron Ralston, played by James Franco, who goes out into the desert in Moab, Utah and gets his arm jammed under a boulder. “I really liked the idea of this challenge and I’m open to new experiences as an actor ... I don’t know if this chance will ever come up again, so I was very eager to do it,” said Franco during his red carpet appearance on Sunday evening.
Amber Tamblyn, best known for her role in the “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” said she very much enjoyed working with the team even in this extreme environment. The crew had to fly all the equipment out into the desert where they had built “a big town” explained Tamblyn. “It was insane, so much fun though,” Tamblyn told The Epoch Times.
Danny Boyle does an extraordinary job putting together a movie about a man stuck in one location and makes it interesting and engaging for the audience. “I wanted to keep it various, and yet represent bold similarity with the hallucinations,” said Boyle about the use of triptych effect, the combination of three different scenes combined into panels on one screen.
The crowd at the public screening was amazed at the special appearance of the real hero of the story, Aron Ralston, who was left with an artificial right hand after the incident in the desert in 2003.
Battling the red sands, camping out in the desert with no trailers and hiking to the scene locations, Franco, Tamblyn and other costars including Kate Mara and Clemence Poesy were rewarded with a warm welcome at TIFF as hundreds of fans cheered for the stars on the red carpet.
Based on a true story, “127 Hours” tells the true tale of young American explorer, Aron Ralston, played by James Franco, who goes out into the desert in Moab, Utah and gets his arm jammed under a boulder. “I really liked the idea of this challenge and I’m open to new experiences as an actor ... I don’t know if this chance will ever come up again, so I was very eager to do it,” said Franco during his red carpet appearance on Sunday evening.
Amber Tamblyn, best known for her role in the “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” said she very much enjoyed working with the team even in this extreme environment. The crew had to fly all the equipment out into the desert where they had built “a big town” explained Tamblyn. “It was insane, so much fun though,” Tamblyn told The Epoch Times.
Danny Boyle does an extraordinary job putting together a movie about a man stuck in one location and makes it interesting and engaging for the audience. “I wanted to keep it various, and yet represent bold similarity with the hallucinations,” said Boyle about the use of triptych effect, the combination of three different scenes combined into panels on one screen.
The crowd at the public screening was amazed at the special appearance of the real hero of the story, Aron Ralston, who was left with an artificial right hand after the incident in the desert in 2003.
Battling the red sands, camping out in the desert with no trailers and hiking to the scene locations, Franco, Tamblyn and other costars including Kate Mara and Clemence Poesy were rewarded with a warm welcome at TIFF as hundreds of fans cheered for the stars on the red carpet.
