Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, the creators of HBO's 'The Sympathizer,' discuss how they adapted Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
When Park Chan-wook read “The Sympathizer” for the first time, maybe six or seven years ago, he felt like he was watching fireworks explode in the night. “Which is to say,” Park said, “it was very colorful and loud in its expression and its prose.” The South Korean filmmaker co-created “The Sympathizer,” with Don McKellar , and directed the first three episodes of the seven-part HBO miniseries, premiering Sunday.
Nguyen said on a phone call as he was walking the streets of Paris that there was an opportunity with “The Sympathizer” “to have a more sophisticated understanding of what racism and colonization have meant and still mean in American society. … When I was writing the book, it was always treating the war in Vietnam as an episode in a much longer history of American imperialism and colonialism.” “The Sympathizer” — both the book and the series — is chock-full of big ideas like this.
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