Bong Joon-ho on The Host March 8, 2007InterviewsBrent The Host, I knew going in that these sorts of [attitudes] were what I would be facing.” For the full feature interview, from IGN, click here. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
, thrown the<br />
scraps of production means and frequently peddled without much<br />
imagination or flair to more narrowly defined and presumably<br />
open-walleted niche-market audiences. Studios quietly welcome the<br />
financial returns of these pictures, in other words, but the genre’s<br />
writers and directors are frequently regarded as industry interlopers,<br />
somehow not “real” filmmakers.</p>
<p>South Korean writer-director Bong Joon-ho says that phenomenon is not<br />
native only to the United States. <b>“When you first think of making a<br />
monster movie, you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on<br />
you because there is a big prejudice against such films,”</b> says the<br />
pleasant, open-faced filmmaker through a translator. “And in Korea,<br />
within horror films, movies with sci-fi elements are at the bottom end<br />
of that, and even lower within that group are monster films. So even before<br />
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The Host, I knew going in that these sorts of [attitudes] were what I would be facing.”The Host, I knew going in that these sorts of [attitudes] were what I would be facing.”