![]() ![]() He’s also dealing with an alcoholic father, a widower, who is struggling to cope with raising Finney and his younger sister Gwen, who’s seemingly the only person in the world Finney can lean on for love and strength and support." "When we first meet Finney, he’s very shy as a result of being bullied by his classmates, who don’t appreciate Finney’s special qualities. Like that film, I decided to present Finney, at least in part, as my surrogate, through which I explore my own rough childhood," says Derrickson. "In terms of inserting my own childhood into this film, I was very much influenced by Francois Truffaut’s great New Wave drama The 400 Blows. Instead of beginning with the first interaction between the boy, now called Finney Shaw, and the killer – who the filmmakers renamed simply The Grabber – Cargill and Derrickson decided to open the film up by exploring Finney’s everyday boyhood existence. ![]() It was a scary, violent place to grow up in, and I tried to bring the reality of that to the film." ![]() There was also a lot of domestic violence – in my home, and in the homes of the children who I grew up with. "When I was eight years old, a friend of mine who lived nearby knocked on my door and told me that his mother had just been murdered. "I grew up in a violent household and a violent neighborhood," he says. For the purposes of incorporating Derrickson’s own childhood history into the film, they decided to move the original story’s setting of Galesburg, Illinois to the northern part of Denver, Colorado in 1978 – Derrickson’s home turf. ![]()
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