![]() ![]() It was actually filmed in a small town in Ottawa and in a few areas around the Ottawa area. So I was able to bring that to The Exchange.ĭid you get to visit the set while it was filming? I’m just curious because you don’t get to see the animation really done in real-time, but did you get to see the film and your story kind of come to life?Ī hundred percent. Even with The Simpsons, I’ve been lucky enough to work on the show for 20 years, it was always been on genuine emotional experience even if the comedy is a little heightened. At the same time, I like to believe that writing is writing. Not so easy to do in a live-action context. On The Simpsons, if we really need to, we can have Homer’s head explode at the end of a scene. Obviously, presenting things in the live-action situation, it’s a different kettle of fish in terms of what you put on the screen. Not to be a weasel about it, but I think it does and it doesn’t. That was, again, something that I knew well, and I also knew that feeling of being a small-town kid that thought he was so much smarter than everyone else that wound up not being all that smart at all.įrom a writer’s viewpoint, does your approach change from writing for a live-action script rather than animation? Obviously, you know, like budget becomes more of a concern and it has to be a bit more grounded, but is that a dynamic shift in how you approach stories, or does it stay the same? There’s a much wider range of people and attitudes in a small town. At the same time, I feel like they sort of portray people universally as yokels and the situation is much more complex. I love small-town stories because they reflect the way life was for me when I was growing up. I grew up in a very small town in Canada called Exeter that in many ways is different from the town in the movie, but in many ways is the same. Can you discuss the setting and the role that it plays in the story?Īgain, that’s something that was true to life. This still managed to deal with, uh, you know, some important social issues and xenophobia, but we get it through the small town lens, which I thought was really refreshing to see. So often I see films centered around big cities like New York or LA. ![]() The film is set in a small town in Canada. Like you said, it was really nice to do it in a different way that was hopefully funny for people and not so straightforward. I felt like, obviously, there are issues that don’t go away about a clash of cultures, the way people can misunderstand each other, and the way these misunderstandings can lead to pretty serious consequences. How fun was it to sort of turn that trope on its head from expectations going in? What I like about the story is it’s about culture shock, but it’s kind of a twist on it where the domestic student is experiencing the shock rather than the foreign student. They say write what you know, so I wrote what I knew and here we are. ![]() They were definitely true things that happened to me. A lot of the basic experiences, sort of my extreme surprise of who the guy turned out to be, and some of the experiences that are recounted in the movie. I had an exchange student that came home and it was very different. Tyler Treese: What made you really want to write a film centered around an exchange student? Was this a personal thing? Did you ever have an experience growing up where you brought an exchange student to your home? ![]()
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