00:00I
00:02Really wanted the story to begin the week after the movie where the penguin who is completely underestimated
00:09grabs for power in this power vacuum I
00:14Loved
00:15Playing the character in the film and designing the shape of Oz's body and his costume and the whole thing was such a team effort
00:22So only have six to seven scenes in the film. I thought is there any world we can do more
00:26The way the penguin functions in the Batman is that he's a little bit of a red herring
00:31What I really wanted to do was build that story out
00:33So that's really the birth of the show Oz was not in the movie that much
00:37So there was ripe opportunity to really explore him in a deeper way
00:41And really get to try and understand his psychology
00:45And so it's an extension of the Batman film
00:49It's exploring a very different world. Whereas the Batman lived in the upper echelons of the social structure of Gotham
00:55This is down in the gutter
00:59The world ain't set up for the honest man to succeed
01:03That should be a beautiful story with a happy ending
01:06But that ain't the way the world works
01:10We get to see a different side of Gotham those that are really affected by the corruption of the city
01:16To me what was very important is this idea of the high and the low the idea of the parts of the city that are insulated
01:25And then the people who are struggling just day-to-day to get by
01:31The penguin is really looking at the profound corruption of Gotham. It's a kind of a dark American dream story, really
01:42There are many gangs within Gotham and they're all vying for real estate and they're all vying for the drug trade
01:50I
01:53Thought about who should be a potential antagonist against Oz what Matt established in the movie is that Carmine Falcone
02:00Who dies in the film has a family?
02:05There's Alberto Falcone and there's Sophia Falcone
02:08My father's been dead a week. You want to take what's mine?
02:12Carmine knew that Sophia was the smartest
02:14He wanted her to really carry on the family Dylan and I were very excited about how we could embody this rise to power of
02:21Oz in this battle of wills and who is gonna come out on top
02:27You know what people underestimate you but not me
02:37Oz always struggled in his life
02:40So he's savvy in some ways in relation to the cruel
02:43Mathematics of how the world works
02:46What is it you're really after us? Oh, what's mine?
02:52When I first started to dissect Oz and figure out what was driving him
02:57My realization was I think he wants to be loved and revered
03:03To me that the deeper root issue would come from his mother. I wanted to write an interesting
03:10Complicated tough-as-nails broad and so I created Francis for that
03:16What you did wasn't impulsive was instinctual this city isn't it to be yours we die
03:24What are you gonna do to get it
03:28Morally corrupt individual that is Oz seeking ambition in the city. That was always sort of the blueprint for the character
03:36And
03:38Inside of that was an exploration that is deep emotional
03:42Disturbing and also exciting in an entertainment way much like all great gangster movies or television shows
03:52Over the course of the show these characters become larger than life in multiple different iterations. They all face with the same
04:01Decisions that we all have to make they just choose different actions that we could never choose
04:07Oz knows the world is a cruel place and you either get to live beneath the cruelty as a victim of it
04:13Or impose the cruelty on those who deserve it more than you
04:16these characters have been through tremendous trauma and the idea about how all of that resonates against a place and
04:22That Gotham is this place where?
04:25People can live these forsaken lives
04:28And it creates these lives of tremendous
04:32Desperation and it creates an emotional violence that ends up spilling out into the world of that city in physical violence
04:38I think all of that
04:41To me is an exciting way of taking something. That is this familiar pop
04:46Iconic mythic place fictional place and trying to find a way to make it relate to the real world
04:57You
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