From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

My guess, Sylvan White, is I think, one of the more interesting directors around because

he has a way of using slow motion.

I think it's kind of unrivaled by the filmmakers.

His newest film is an adaptation of the comic, forgive me, graphic novel, The Losers.

Sylvan, thanks so much for being here.

It's my pleasure.

Thank you.

But I did want to, before we get into the movie, talk to you about the way you lose

slow motion, because I think it's kind of a signature for you, the way you do it.

And I wonder how you arrived at that technique and using it in that way.

Yeah, you know, slow motion is an interesting thing.

I think I first started experimenting with different speeds when I was in the early

film school stuff. I saw this documentary called Baraka that had a lot of cool. Oh, sure. Oh,

sure. That's the year. And it's basically all about the way time shifts. That's correct. Yeah. There's a lot of time

lapse photography. That's truly

amazing. And I think that's when I first started, you know, being interested in that kind of thing

visually and experimenting with sort of, you know, short films while I was in school,

doing different things with speed, like high speed, slow speed. And, you know, I try to use it

effectively in movies to underline narrative or action moments or dance moments like I've done it.

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