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Pure Rage : 28 days later : 30 minutes of Interviews and making of documentary. The film was produced by Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting. Set 28 days after a devastating epedemic ravages Britain, it follows the story of some of the survivors. With clips and discussion from eminent scientists and public health officials.
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Narrator (female)
	28 Days Later is a terrifying new thriller from Danny Boyle
	the man who brought us Trainspotting.
	Set 28 days after a devastating epidemic ravages Britain,
	the film follows a handful of survivors as they struggle to make sense of the aftermath.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	Very simply its the story of a group of survivors
	trying to make their way to safety after the outbreak of a terrible viral infection
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	It gives people this incurable disease which fills their veins and blood
	with pure rage, and turns them into these infective people.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	And then eventually, everything just stops, and there's only so many people left.
Jim
	Hellooo !
	HELLO ?
Narrator (female)
	But how far from reality though, is the premise of 28 days later ?
	And how protected are we from a new killer pandemic ?
Scientist #1
	[Offscreen] We evaluated overall trends and deaths from infectionus diseases.
	Looked at in this way, infectionus diseases haven't gone away.
	They have increased as a cause of death in recent years, after decades of decline.
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	The threat to us at the moment, from infectious diseases
	is probably as big as it's ever been, and getting worse.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	The threat of infection to human mortality on a worldwide scale is still very great.
	We have to anticipate there will be a major pandemic,
	at some stage there will be many deaths associated with that.
Naomi Harris - Selina
	I remember actually when I was at secondary school, and my teacher was saying
	that, you know, we shouldn't worry about global warming or any of these things
	You should worry about viruses - and for some reason that was always stayed with me.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	There was something very interesting that happened while we were filming.
	There were two German scientists, erm who created a totally synthetic polio virus.
	But they got all the material off the web.
	This is the new fear isn't it - you know, even in weapons of mass destruction
	What everybody's really worried about is the anthrax, smallpox, those kind of things
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	Infectious diseases are indeed the new paranoia that's striking western society.
	It is this fear of invisible threats to you , you know,
	just something there in the air, waiting to strike.
Prof John Stanford - UC, London
	If you forget about a disease and consider it beaten, then erm,
	the organism will take the opportunities which you increasingly offer it.
Narrator (female)
	Nothing else has the power to bring a nation to it's knees
	like the consequences of a killer epidemic.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	I expect new things to appear over the years
	but you can't predict when and where.
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	I don't think we're ever far from the next pandemic.
Narrator (female)
	Over the last ten years, an alarmingly high number of national crises
	have been a direct consequence of infectious disease.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	There's always been rumblings - I mean I always felt a little uneasy
	in the way things have been going -
	it's constantly testing what the world can take, you know ?
Narrator (female)
	In the case of 'foot and mouth', it resulted in the slaughter of over 5 million animals.
	That's more than the entire human population of Liverpool.
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	We saw in the foot and mouth epidemic, just how quickly things can spread.
Narrator (female)
	More than 127,000 farms were subjected to infected area restrictions.
	It put the greatest strain imaginable on the countries animal health services.
	Eventually it resulted in the military being drafted in.
Major Henry West
	So you heard our broadcast ?
Jim
	Yeah, we did.
Major Henry West
	We must be a disappointment.
	You were hoping for a full brigade, an army base with helicopters and a field hospital.
Jim
	I just .. hoping for ..
Major Henry West
	The answer to infection.
Jim
	Uh, yeah.
Narrator (female)
	The cost to the economy has been estimated at over 4.2 billion pounds.
Prof John Stanford - UC, London
	From the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
	I think we've actually learned some important lessons.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	We can't always prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases in the UK
	Our aim is to pick them up quickly, provide the evidence
	on which containment measures can be taken
	and build a protection system such as through vaccination.
Narrator (female)
	If an illness can spread so quicly, and have such an effect on the nations livestock,
	surely it's not just the animals that are at risk.
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	We need to take very seriously the possible threat
	of diseases moving from animals to us.
	It's now been almost incontravertibly established that the virus which causes
	HIV in us, came from monkeys.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	One concern that is high in peoples minds is the ability of some organisms
	to transfer from animals to people and cause serious disease.
	There are over 400 pathogens that can already transmit from animals to people.
	In Malaysia a few years ago, a big outbreak of what was called Nippa Virus
	in pigs, jumped straight to human beings and caused over 100 deaths.
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	We shouldn't assume that if a disease is in an animal
	that it won't at some stage pose a threat to us.
Narrator (female)
	At the moment, foot and mouth can't infect humans.
	but there is a chance it might evolve.
Frank
	Like a family
Hannah
	Do you think they're infected ?
Frank
	Naah
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	Look at variant CJD. You know, the human form of mad cow disease.
	Where was that 30 years ago ? It didn't exist.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	Our concern is that new diseases do arise and will arise.
	That's the whole nature of evolution.
Jim
	Got some bad news.
Andy Coghlan 'New Scientist Mag'
	Increased mobility is one huge factor in that.
	Much more international travel than we've ever had before.
Selina
	The day before the TV and radio stopped broadcasting
	there were reports of infection in Paris and New York.
	We didn't hear anthing more after that.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	Infection knows no boundaries, no man made boundaries between countries
	So there has to be international collaboration
	in catching the spread of infectious diseases.
	But in the very nature of evolution, new ones will evolve or change
	and be able to cause disease. We have to be ready to deal with them.
Jim
	How about the government - what did they do ?
Selina
	There's no government.
Jim
	Course there's a government.
	There's always a government - they're in a - v - err, a bunker, or a plane.
Brian Gleeson - 'Frank'
	The notion that we can put our faith in institutions,
	and forget about them is what the danger is.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	We saw a load about that with the BSE thing - you know,
	they just - ahh - they couldn't cope.
Brian Gleeson - 'Frank'
	The notion that you can say -
	'Well, I haven't gone there so that means I'm safe' - is a nonsense.
Army voice, on radio
	[Gunfire] The answer to infection is here.
Selina
	If it's a recording, for all we know the soldiers who made it are dead.
Frank
	It's possible, yeah.
Selina
	And that stuff about the answer to infection, I mean -
	there is no answer to infection, its already done pretty much all the damage it can.
Jim
	Maybe they have a cure.
Selina
	Maybe they've got nothing at all.
Frank
	[Shouting] Well the only way to find out is to reach them.
Selina
	We could die trying , Frank.
Narrator (female)
	In the last year of the 20th century, communicable diseases
	accounted for an estimated twenty five percent of deaths worldwide.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	When you look at tuberculosis worldwide, and malaria and the other infectious diseases
	and gastroenteritis in the third world, these are major killers.
Narrator (female)
	Every day the human body is coming under attack from disease causing microbes.
	Nobody is immune.
Prof John Stanford - UC, London
	We're living in a sea of bacteria, let there be no doubt about that.
	They're in our environment, they're on our skin.
Narrator (female)
	So, the idea of a new killer epidemic infecting the country is not far fetched at all.
Prof Brian Duerden - PHLS
	In the United States, we've seen the west nile virus, which is a disease of birds,
	spreading between them by way of mosquitos.
	But if those mosquitos happen to bite people
	they can transmit the virus to people, who get an encephalitis.
Prof John Stanford - UC, London
	But it would be very unfortunate if people didn't sensibly think
	'If there is an outbreak that suddenly strikes the place, well, lets follow certain simple rules.'
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	Cause if something like this were to happen,
	like in scares and biological warfare,
	That's what you see happening - you see this panic, you know.
	And what you get in this is sort of the remnants of panic.
Major Henry West
	I looked down and I was standing on all these people.
	Like a carpet, people who had fallen, and somewhere in the crowd they were infected
	It spread fast !
Narrator (female)
	It's not so much a question of will it happen, but when will it happen.
Prof John Stanford - UC, London
	Just as the Darwinian principles of survival of the fittest
	and evolution are accepted for mammals
	then the same is happening at a much smaller level for bacteria.
	And that whenever they're put under intolerable pressure
	And that may be by the common use of an antibiotic for example,
	then they will pretty rapidly find a way round it.
Jim
	If you travel during daylight, if you've got no choice ?
Narrator (female)
	So what is the virus that wipes out the population of London in '28 days later' ?
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	Scientists are experimenting and trying to find a cure for Rage.
	Kind of like a suppresant drug, like valium for depression or whatever.
	Very roughly. And - it goes wrong.
'Rage researcher'
	I know who you are, I know what you think you're doing.
Animal rights activist
	If you don't want to get hurt, keep your mouth shut and don't move a muscle.
'Rage researcher'
	The chimps are infected !
	They're , they're highly contagious. They've been given an inhibitor.
Animal rights activist
	Infected with what ?
'Rage researcher'
	In order to cure, you must first understand.
Animal rights activist
	[shouting] Infected with WHAT ?
'Rage researcher'
	Rage.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	It's a primate based virus.
	It's hideously virulent.
	It's spread by contact with the blood.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	Scratches, bites et cetera.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	And it leads to the al -
	Permanent, appalling state of aggression.
Naylor (Infected soldier)
	Arreghhggh yhharrr !
Major Henry West
	Naylor - Jim.
Naylor (Infected soldier)
	Arrrhhhh yuggrrrrahhhh !
Army voice, on radio
	Jim - Naylor.
	Got infected three days ago.
Naomi Harris - Selina
	Feel this incredible rage, which blots out any other feeling at all.
	And you know, rage manifests itself in just totally wanting to destroy another person.
	Destroy buildings, its just about complete destruction.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	Imagine yourself in your worst moment of road rage.
	And multiply it by a million.
	And, that's what these people are like.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	It opens up big philosophical things about whether we
	whether its a very modern disease or whether it's always been with us.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	It's actually part of use, and all it's doing is bringing out something
	that we'all terribly, I'm afraid - capable of.
Selina
	[To Jim] When someone gets infected, you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them.
	It might be your brother, or your sister, or your oldest friend. It makes no difference.
	And just so you know where you stand, if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
Brian Gleeson - 'Frank'
	We've fled this whole notion of rage, and you know,
	the modern malaise and the infection of it.
	And we come into something that's even more frightening
	Which is where the notion of survival hits base.
	And where it's every man for himself.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	The wold is over. So, its just how you deal with continuing life.
	Helloooo ! [End of pat one]
Jim
	Done a lot of thinking.
Selina
	You were thinking that you'll never hear another piece of music again.
	You'll never read a book that hasn't already been written.
	Or ... see a film that hasn't already been shot.
Jim
	Erm, that's what you were thinking.
Narrator (female)
	In 28 days later, the film makers created a thoroughly gripping vision
	of a country crippled by a new disease.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	For me, when you read a screenplay that's a good screenplay
	you see the film, and that's the way Alex writes.
	If you've read 'The Beach', whatever you think of the story,
	I think you visualise it, and you want to know what happens next.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	I tried to make the most, of the script, and the intelligence of it
	and the issues it was trying to investigate,
	and the comment it was making on society in general.
Frank
	If you look at the whole life of the planet,
	Man has only been around for a few blinks of an eye.
	So if the infection wipes us all out
	that IS a return to normality.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	I thought the script was terrifying. I thought it was a real page turner.
Brian Gleeson - 'Frank'
	When I find myself saying the lines in my head
	I usually figure its not - I wouldn't be mis-cast in it.
	I was rading it, thinking - 'this is my kind of film'
	and so it's like - I'd go and watch it in the cinema, and so.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	And that's what I said to him - I said 'I like this Danny, it's terrifying' - 'good, good'
Sound effects
	[Extended gunfire]
Narrator (female)
	In maintaining a realistic edge to the film,
	the film makers decided to use a cast of less familiar actors.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	Jim is like the everyman, you know what I mean - he's just a guy off the street - he's a bike courier.
	He wakes up out of a coma in a hospital, and the hospital's just completely abandoned.
	And he walks out over to Westminster Bridge, and then it's just desolate
	and signs of, that something unusual has 'gone down'
Naomi Harris - Selina
	Selina is one of the people who's survived the rage virus.
	that's been set loose, she's had to shut down emotionally in order to survive.
	So she's quite cold.
Selina
	You should be quite concerned about whether they're going to slow you down.
Jim
	Right , because if they slowed you down ...
Selina
	I'd leave them behind.
Jim
	In a heartbeat.
Selina
	Yep.
Jim
	I wouldn't.
Selina
	Then you're going to wind up getting yourself killed.
Brian Gleeson - 'Frank'
	I have this wonderful relationship with my daughter.
	And we're hiding out in the survival mode.
	Erm, in a high rise flat.
	He was just a very beautifully written character.
Frank
	[whispering] Have the spare room... there.
	Are you and Selina ...
Jim
	[Whispering] Wha - No, no no no.
	Err, No, I'll take the - I think that's fine.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	I play a character called Major Henry West, who's a senior officer in the British Army.
	Erm, he and his eight soldiers are uninfected.
	But basically what he's done is he's taken over a stately pile, a mansion.
	Erm, and he's made it impregnable.
Major Henry West
	High perimeter wall, which helps. And we've been lacing the ground with tripwires and landmines.
	You wouldn't want to mow the lawn. But if they get in , we hear them.
Naomi Harris - Selina
	She doesn't trust the army saying that they have the answer to infection.
	And she knows that actually there is no answer to infection.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	He represents the head, and Jim, represents the heart.
	and ultimately there's conflict between the two.
Sound effects
	[Soldiers shouting outside : Get him on the floor]
Major Henry West
	I want to give you a chance. You can be with us.
Narrator (female)
	To create a more urban feel to the images, the film creators chose digital video over film.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	I think its beutiful for urban work. It has a grittiness about it.
	thats magnificent for your city movie, really.
Jim
	Hey hey hey hey - what's that ?
Danny Boyle (Director)
	This is the way we record our lives.
	We are surrounded in this city by cameras.
	they're everywhere, and there are all these DV cameras, all types of them
	and they're recording our every motion, all the time.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	It definitely suits the story. Suits a British story, that sort of slightly rough edge.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	I think when you want something like this to feel really real,
	you know, it's an appropriate medium to use.
Jim
	Hello ?
Sound effects
	[Door bursts open. Scratching, panting from zombie]
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	On a few occasions, you might just go 'Phew' - and - there's a camera - there !
	So you have to be aware of it all the time you know.
	But its great cause you can get so many different perspectives,
	and there's a few things you can't do with big 35 mil cameras.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	You can't just wait for your single or your close up shot or whatever.
	You're always mindful there's always at least two cameras on the go.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	What you've got to be aware of as an actor
	because you can sometimes think its a wide shot
	and there's one stuck in there that is covering you very close.
Narrator (female)
	The film shows a post apocalyptic landscape created in the aftermath of the epidemic.
	But creating a completely deserted vision of London was no easy task.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	We never would have shot that with film.
	The police and the councils were quite happy to assist us doing it
	cause we could do it so quickly. It would be ready to shoot in lterally, minutes.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	Walking round deserted London was a big buzz.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	The word Action, and you're in it, you know
	And there was nothing there. And once you get into that space in your head, it was fantastic.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	What we tried to do was try to find kind of iconic images
	that again did the work of a huge, huge budget, you know.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	When you see the whole of Westminster Bridge and the Embankment all closed - for you -
	and the traffic stopped and you can't hear anything, it's pretty exciting.
Jim
	The triumph of actually managing to make that look deserted
	was quite - you know, it's incredible.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	One of the problems with emptying London now,
	is that, like I think probably before dance music you could have probably done it.
	But now because of dance culture of course, which has opened clubs
	people are piling out of the clubs at dawn, and they kind of overlap with the people coming to clean the offices.
Narrator (female)
	The filming also required an entire section of the M1 to be closed.
Naomi Harris - Selina
	I think they only gave us two or three goes at it.
	So you didn't have very much time, and you were under a great deal pressure to get-this-right.
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	There was like windows where you had three or four minutes
	to get the shot when the traffic is held down the road erm,
	So it was brilliant, but it was a weird experience again, to see a motorway of that size just empty.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	That was unbelievable, I thought that was quite chilling actually that set,
	with the motorway blocked off and a big sign for Manchester and desolation.
Frank
	Must be Manchester.
Jim
	The whole of Manchester - the whole city !
Danny Boyle (Director)
	When you do it for real, things happen you know - actors are different
	and it changes everything, because suddenly it's there for the actors,
	they don't have to imagine that the traffic will be removed or that the dinosaur will be there
	I mean it actually is there for them.
Narrator (female)
	The film also reqiured a large team of make-up artists to create the infected look.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	We've been experiencing a lot of gore at the moment, lots of buckets of fake blood
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	Gallons of edible bile and spewy vomit and ..
Sound effects
	Uuuurgghhhuck !!!
Cillian Murphy - 'Jim'
	All sorts of different variations on blood - but you become immune to it - .
	I mean there you are sitting down having you lunch, covered head to foot in - bluurgh!
Megan Burns (Hannah)
	Its a bit surreal - you're sitting there and then there's this infected person walking past
	eatin and like, sitting next to you or whatever.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	In the end it is very gruesome, very gruesome
28 days [Actors]
	I've still got a bit of him in me teeth look.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	Danny, he really likes all that stuff doesn't he - cause he's behind the monitor
	and I thought - yeah its a recurring theme with Danny, this sort of ultra violence haha.
Danny Boyle (Director)
	There's two kinds of effects in the film really, to try and create a plausible world
	ie, a post-apocalyptic plausible world - and also an atmospheric world
	that is very - that has a strange atmosphere about it.
Andrew Macdonald - Producer
	The one that really got me was the rain.
	Cause rain is really really - makes things so difficult.
	Because by the time you've got the rain right and the light right
	and the angle so you could see the rain, and then try to do the shot, you know.
	It was, that was very difficult.
	We used a digital effect more to try and create an atmosphere.
	Particularly use of colours in the film.
	Because you're in a digital medium anyway, it's very responsive.
	You can actually play with the visual impact of the film in different ways -
	you know, there's a freedom to do that.
Narrator (female)
	Essential for the action sequences was a high level of fitness.
	Some of the cast endured military training.
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	We ad a two, three day boot camp.
	where we did military exercises.
	It was an experience, I tell you, I can tell you that much.
	It was a - I'm used to staying indoors overnight (laughter)
	That didn't really work out.
28 days [Actors]
	It was hard stuff. But, I'm glad I did it, I'm glad I stuck it out because I think it's all showing on screen
Christopher Ecclestone (Major Henry West)
	And they're putting us right on the edge
28 days [Actors]