To be a winner
With “Slumdog Millionaire” emerging the big winner at the Golden Globes — best director for Danny Boyle along with screenplay and musical score — Danny Boyle was thrilled. “Golden Globes — or the GGs as we very affectionately refer to them — your mad, pulsating affection for our film is much appreciated. Really, deeply appreciated,” he said.
“We really weren’t expecting to be here in America at all at one time, so it’s just amazing to be here,” said Simon Beaufoy, whose winning script was adapted from Vikas Swarup’s novel Q & A.
Boyle also said he wants to return to Mumbai to make another film.
“I’d love to do a thriller there next — the energy is extraordinary,” he told The London Paper. “They call it Maximum City, which is absolutely accurate: the problems they have there, the joys, the wonders, are absolutely maximum. It’s a passionate, romantic city, and it loves a love story And despite all that has happened there recently it is a city moving towards happiness. You have these incredible extremes but it feels like there’s a destiny that binds it all together.”
Boyle, whose film has just opened in cinemas across Britain to wide critical acclaim, told the London eveninger he was keeping his “feet on the ground” as far as Oscar expectations went.
“The town basically votes for its own in the end, you have to accept that and keep your feet on the ground. I only ever thought we’d be at the back of the room waving, so it’s nice to be at the front.”
Asked what he would do if he won a million pounds, Boyle told the newspaper he would give it to “this guy called Raj who was first assistant director on “Slumdog Millionaire” and works for Street Scools — schools in Mumbai that are on the streets. You’d have to do something like that wouldn’t you.”
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