Jordan Hoffman: The scenes that I keep coming back to, the most shocking scenes in your entire film, are the scenes with the family: the little boy and the wife and how proud they are that dad is going to go blow up some civilians in the streets of London.
Chris Morris: That’s a dark joke because it’s an inversion, isn’t it. It’s an inversion of, “Look, it’s a Disney scene. But it’s upside down.” And it’s not just there for a gratuitous reason, it’s there because at least some of the people involved in this stuff think they’re doing the right thing. If you see The Lion King from the right angle, you think you’re Simba. You don’t think you’re Scar. You know, the leader of the London bombers thought he was going to fight and die in Afghanistan in 2004, and so he’s there on a video with his 9-month old daughter on his knee, talking to her and saying that she and her mother are the best things in his life and he’d love to watch her grow up to walk and talk and play with her and all these kinds of things. And you just think, “This is a soppy speech but for the violins and the lighting. This is a scene from a soppy movie.” It’s the good guy speech. And that does give you pause, but then clearly that’s what’s going on in his head.
Jordan Hoffman: Then they go on "Puffin Party."
Chris Morris: My kids used to go on Club Penguin, and I thought that’s a pretty good playground to exchange covert messages. Some of the things that come up...there was one lot who sort of exchanged, they had ridiculous email addresses like coolandkinky or welovekiley or these kind of things. And they would talk about their projects in terms of either reviewing last night’s Big Brother or reviewing albums by the Chili Peppers, or various kinds of silly codes, things that look really silly in retrospect. So I think it’s a pretty good idea, going online as a cartoon puffin. Would you spot it? “Come 'round to my birthday party. I’ve got lots of candles it’s going to be great...”
