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It was great. I think a few days
after we'd started pre-production,
the crew realised that they'd just
inherited a bunch of kids
and it was a little bit terrifying
for them. But it was great.
It's really important
that they aren't really assisted by
adults throughout the entire thing.
It is a teenage coming-of-age film.
It's about, you know,
their strength combined,
and about being young
and about being confused
and not knowing what to do.
I think not having parental guidance
was very, very important for this film
and important for these characters
because they had to make decisions
themselves.
Time and time again,
they're let down by adults
because they weren't able to, you know,
overcome the invading forces
and they weren't able to help them
and there's nobody around.
As far as they know, they're the only
people that have survived.
So according to them, adults are
fairly useless at this point in time.
I think it's great.
I think it's important that teenagers
are shown in a better light
because most people think
that we are quite useless,
I think, sometimes.
I remember reading
that John Marsden wrote the book
because he wanted teenagers
to be shown in a positive light.
Every generation,
kids are lousy, they're useless.
So it was fantastic because
not only are these teenagers so strong
and so strong-willed and powerful,
there's also a female lead,
an action female lead,
which I think are very far
and few between,
and she's just so courageous.
