Olly Blackburn: Character

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“And for the genre stuff I'm a big fan of Carpenter, Romero, Peckinpah, and Polanski, because they're unremitting and real and brilliant at showing characters under unbearable stress and unafraid of challenging us with uncomfortable truths as well as being just incredible filmmakers.”

Olly Blackburn

[Washington City Paper, Creative Loafing Inc., Tricia, Olszewski, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/02/13/interview-with-donkey-punch-director-olly-blackburn/, 13 February 2009, 23 February 2012, Interview With Donkey Punch Director Olly Blackburn]

Truth

“The core idea was to be as realistic as possible and we wanted people to identify with the characters.”

Olly Blackburn

[Edinburgh International Film Festival, www.edfilmfest.org.uk, http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/2008/06/self-portrait-olly-blackburn, Olly Blackburn, News - Self portrait: Olly Blackburn, 20 June 2008, 23 February 2012]

People , Idea

“Donkey Punch is a very extreme, real-world thriller – it’s about characters and events that are based in reality and it pushes them into very dark and extreme situations where they have to do things that they would never have imagined. The film shows all this quite realistically and doesn’t pull its punches.”

Olly Blackburn

[Bloody Disgusting, Interview Donkey Punch: Writer/Directory Olly Blackburn, Mr. Disgusting, http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/interview/441, 23 February 2012, 2011, Bloody-Disgusting LLC]

World , Imagination , Reality