You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the writer and director for Sisu, Yalmari Hellander.

All right. How are you doing,'all, Mari? I'm good. How are you?

I'm doing great. It's funny. I see the poster behind you. That answers one of the first questions I was going to ask you.

Clearly, you're a big Rambo fan.

Yes, I am. Okay, so i'll jump right in then um i assume first

blood was a pretty big inspiration for this film right definitely and a huge inspiration for me

even to be a filmmaker probably.

You got the poster behind you so that tracks.

Why don't you tell me a little bit more about how First Blood inspired this film

and also some of the other films that you've pulled in here

because I see some spaghetti western going on, a lot of stuff.

So tell me about the inspirations.

First blood is probably the biggest one.

And it's somehow to see a film about a guy you basically don't know anything about

and you're starting to find out okay this guy might be a

soldier okay he's a soldier but you don't know how bad and how good is he like

what he does and I love that kind of stories where basically stories that you're

fucking with the wrong guy so I don't

know I loved it when I saw it and there's a lot of the same kind of vibe in the

setup of Sisu like meeting this one guy which we don't talk about and and finally we are starting building a

legend around yeah okay so we've got the we've definitely got the rambo there and little john wiki

too but what about some of the spaghetti western inspirations here? Because you've got those title cards

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