行尸走肉：死亡之城（2023）

我就是想不明白
Woman: I just can't figure it out.
工具人
The Burazi.
他们知道
They knew.
有人知道尼根怎么了吗？
Anyone see what happened to Negan?
他封锁了整座岛
He's got the whole island locked down.
他在哪？
Where is he?
我会找到他
The Croat: I will find him.
♪
[Walker growls] [Perlie grunts]
他们不可能逃出这座岛
There is no way they're getting off this island.
[Walker growling]
[Monster roaring]
I'm Eli Jorné, EP and showrunner of "Dead City,"
and this is episode four, "Everybody Wins a Prize."
You get your kid. We kill the psycho.
Everybody wins a prize.
I like that as a title for the episode
because there's a kind of, like, tragic irony to it.
As soon as I decided that The Croat was going to be
holed up in this arena, I was like,
Well, we got to fill it up with walkers, obviously,
and there has to be a giant battle.
I was excited for that whole sequence.
I knew it was going to be epic and I'm so blown away.
The director, Kevin Dowling, just did an incredible job.
Everybody involved did such a great job.
And I think he did it in like just a couple of days.
So many shots, so much you got to cover.
[Walkers growling]
It's not just about seeing the violence and the fighting.
It's also about catching those really important
emotional moments of, you know, when Tommaso and Amaia
see each other across the arena
and you see, you know, the love in their eyes,
the longing, the fear, and you realize,
like, these people have so much
to lose as they watch each other, you know,
get swallowed up by mobs of walkers.
No!
So there's this crucial moment where Maggie,
she sees a way out
and then she stops with this sort of sixth sense,
and she turns, and there's Ginny inside the octagon,
safe but trapped,
and she has a moment there where she has to decide,
am I going to keep going or am I going to turn back?
And I like to think of that moment
as connected to this earlier moment
when Maggie finds the tin of beeswax.
♪
Don't act like you never did something you needed to explain.
He basically says, "We're not that different.
Don't pretend that you're better than me."
I think, on some level, it's a combination for her of
when she's staring at that little girl,
she can't leave her behind,
but also her needing to not be the person that Negan is,
to not be at his level, to be better than that.
So episode four opens with a flashback
of Negan and The Croat.
Hopefully everybody gets a kick out of seeing Simon again.
I sure did.
Um...
We got a problem.
When the actor Steven Ogg showed up,
he and Jeffrey were, like, cracking jokes
and having the time of their lives like two little kids.
And it's a scene where we really get to see that experience
of what that felt like for Negan to walk into this room
and see this young girl the same age as Ginny,
maybe, that The Croat has tortured to death,
and he doesn't even see what he's done.
And it's really hard and painful for Negan to witness.
And then, we kind of come out in the present
and we realize this isn't just a generic flashback.
This is what's on Negan's mind.
The closer we get to The Croat,
it just starts to feel a bit too [no audio] damn familiar.
I know it maybe sounds odd to say, thinking of the fact
that The Croat is probably older than Negan,
but in some ways, The Croat was his first child.
He taught him how to bounce back
from the tragedy of the loss of his family
and how to survive in this threatening world.
[Cocks gun]
Negan!
[Laughs]
My brother!
The Croat is so excited to see Negan,
and he kind of wants to show off this world
that he's built, you know, in a kind of like,
"Look, Dad, look what you showed me
and look what I built."
I have built a new world.
The whole island will become our Sanctuary.
I think the most fun thing to watch as a producer on set
was when they threw Armstrong over the edge of the catwalk.
Aah! Aah!
Jorné: Oh, man, that catwalk, that was scary.
I have a terrible fear of heights.
And in pre-production, we went to go,
you know, like scout the catwalk above the arena.
Even before we were like out on the catwalk,
I just started shaking and I couldn't move.
And I had to stop and turn around
and I never went up there again.
[Negan grunting]
The Croat: Negan, what are you doing?
[Grunting]
Jorné: The moment where Negan saves Armstrong's life
was something that I always knew was going to happen.
And that was inspired by the story from "Les Misérables."
But I think that's a big moment for Armstrong
that the man who he's been chasing down to hang him
just saved his life.
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[outro music]