Writer/director Sean Wang, a Fremont native, said he doesn’t want his film to be classified as a “love letter to a city”
But director and writer Sean Wang , a Fremont native, said he believes that‘s not quite the case, since the movie’s 13-year-old hero doesn’t really come of age.
Just as Wang avoided being tied to the coming-of-age genre, he also said he doesn’t want his film to be classified as a “love letter to a city.” Characters communicate on flip phones, and via MySpace, AOL Instant Messenger, and a brand-new website called Facebook. Wang said he didn’t want to get hung up teaching his young cast all about the old-time tech. Indeed, the images of texting and typing and posting were all created in post-production, with the help of graphic designers and animators.
“Growing up in the Bay Area and Fremont, I didn’t know any other filmmakers — I was the one kid that was into video stuff,” he said. “I went to film school in L.A. for two years, and all of a sudden everybody was a filmmaker and everybody was trying to do the thing that I was doing. And it was actually a little bit suffocating.”
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