David Koepp
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I do.
You'd have to ask Stephen and Gary Reitstrom, the sound designer, who came up with it together, I'm afraid.
I think so.
You're not always conscious of what you're doing and how you're doing it.
But building the story, I think we certainly trust what is near to us and perhaps smaller and manageable and with someone we know.
Right.
Somebody's talking about what's happened in Chelsea.
I believe it because I can see they're standing in Chelsea and they know Chelsea.
And so that's my neighborhood.
So I get that.
Right.
The further it goes, the bigger it gets, the bigger the institution, the less we trust it.
And what I think is really interesting about this movie, as a bookend to Close Encounters, the Close Encounters, late 70s, great deal of paranoia is the government, I think the government might be lying to us, we said in the 1970s.
In 2026, we say- Yeah, Watergate set that up for us.
Right.
Nicely, yeah.
And that very much grew out of that.
That was the suspicion they might be lying to us.
Now it's 2026.