Behind The Scenes: 127 Hours
When Danny Boyle announced he was working on an action film which spends 95% of the time in one place, with one single actor portraying a true story that sounded by all accounts unfilmable, critics and the public alike were understandably sceptical. What was Boyle trying to prove? Why do this when he could do pretty much whatever he wanted after Slumdog Millionaire? There were many questions and very few answers for a long time.
Until the day the movie surfaced, and everyone realised that what he had created here was a serious piece of work that was both one-of-a-kind and spectacularly true to the original story that almost begged cinema goers not to watch it.
But watch it they did: 127 Hours turned out to be one of the best surprise hits in recent years. How did he do it? Well, using real sets mimicking the rock crevice that the climber fell into. That and some pretty astonishing special effects and method acting by James Franco.
Watching the behind the scenes feature on the DVD and reading the book by Aaron Ralston himself – the real climber who was forced to amputate his own arm to escape with his life – you can’t help but envy Boyle for his commitment to doing the job properly. He could have made it much easier on himself, but instead, he saw fit to replicate the situation Aaron found himself in perfectly, using the book as a guide. The resulting footage is terrifyingly real, and most agree it’s set the bar for the psuedo-documentary film-making trend set by films like Touching The Void.
Whatever your opinion, whether you’re a human resources software person who secretly loves gore, or a secretary who’s never got through a horror movie before, 127 Hours is a film which needs to be seen, whatever your feelings on the unfolding events.
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