Everyone was just like 'get the child out of the box!' It was basically a puffy bed and there was holes everywhere for the baby to breathe, obviously, but the entire crew had a nervous breakdown on that scene."ħ) Krasinski has his own take on the man in the woods' storyĪbbott family aside, the only other character encountered in A Quiet Place is the man who commits suicide in the woods by screaming. “As soon as I put that box on and left, they were like 'cut'. The baby’s parents gave permission for their child to be used in the scene (“we absolutely didn't want them to feel taken advantage of or anything like that, and we even said we can do this with a fake baby,” said Krasinski), and it was filmed in two very fast takes. And yes, probably because I was a father of a young baby at the time, but just as a human being.” “I didn't expect how viscerally I would respond. "That was the most intense thing I've ever done in my career,” Krasinski admitted. Until they open themselves up to be vulnerable, they're completely invulnerable." 6) The 'baby-in-the-box' scene was the hardest to shootįor all the monster attacks and set-pieces that linger in the memory from A Quiet Place, one image that’s hard to shake is Evelyn’s newborn baby being placed in a small wooden box to avoid detection by the creatures. The other idea was it's also the reason why they were able to survive the explosion of their planet and then survive on these meteorites. They also develop a way to protect themselves from everything else – that's why they're bulletproof. The idea is, if they grew up on a planet that had no humans and no light, then they don't need eyes, they can only hunt by sound. “They're an evolutionary perfect machine. In the film the exact nature of the marauding beasties is kept ambiguous, bar the odd hint, but Krasinski told us outright that they’re extra-terrestrial. “And then the other version is you force yourself to move forward and it almost becomes this recalibration of your entire life by trying to have another child. But Krasinski saw that development as a reaction to the death of Beau in the opening scene, based on the statistics of what happens to parents who lose children. While the family unit at the centre of A Quiet Place has plenty of clever systems for avoiding detecting from the monsters, the parents’ choice to have another baby doesn’t exactly gel with the new ‘keep quiet or die’ way of life. I made the conscious decision to make it the first scene because I wanted that rule to unlock the movie for the rest of the experience." 4) Evelyn's pregnancy is a partial consequence of Beau’s death “The movie version would say, well the child can't die because nobody can take that. "The power of a child dying set up what I found to be a great opportunity to instill the terror of this reality,” Krasinski explains. If you found that death shocking, you were supposed to. The idea of the Jurassic Park kitchen scene – if you make a sound, you have to stay still and hope that they don't get to you – that was always in my mind."ģ) Beau’s death was designed to throw audiencesĪ Quiet Place constantly subverts viewer expectations, right from the opening scene in which the family’s youngest son is introduced and quickly dispatched by one of the creatures. On the family’s survival tactics, he said: "I loved the idea of your second and third chance – meaning, if you did make a sound, you go into a whole other level of survival which is, 'Now that I've made a sound, if I run I'm dead, if I stay still I may be dead'. Spielberg may not be known as an outright horror director, but his knack for incredibly tense set-pieces clearly rubbed off on Krasinski. Just try to crop-dust, as long as they're not loud and violent you're going to be fine.” 2) The raptors in the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park was an influence “He said, what happens if we need to cough? And I said, well you guys would know to pick up a pillow and cough into the pillow I only imagine now little Noah putting a pillow on his behind and farting into a pillow, knowing that it would save his life. “He was our sounding board for a lot of this,” said Krasinski. One person on set did bring it up though, and typically it was a teenage boy – Noah Jupe, who plays Marcus. For all the noises that pop up in A Quiet Place – smashing glass, rustling grains, apocalypse-inappropriate toys – nobody ever attracts the creatures’ attention by breaking wind. WARNING: CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR A QUIET PLACE 1) There's a definitive solution to THAT farting problemĭon’t lie, you were thinking about it.
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