00:00In the short story, the precogs are mutants.
00:03They're not really recognized as being any kind of human beings whatsoever.
00:10The film, I believe, actually improved on that
00:13by making the characters more human,
00:15and particularly, of course, the Agatha character.
00:17I'm tired. I'm tired of the future.
00:21And that's something that Phil himself would do later on in his fiction,
00:25where he would humanize his precogs and mutants
00:27and stuff that he wrote after the early 1950s.
00:30I think that the thing about him that's so interesting as an author
00:34is that he's highly political.
00:36He's using the genre to comment on today's society.
00:40And I think the persistent thing is that this political theme
00:44carries very much through the film.
00:46Are you saying I've haloed innocent people?
00:49I'm saying that every so often,
00:51those accused of a precrime might just might have an alternate future.
00:55But there's definitely, you know, a very dark edge to the story.
00:59And I think Stephen embraced that.
01:02I mean, I think it's very much comments on today's society,
01:05and I think he did that very cleverly.
01:07Sometimes, in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark.
01:11I think there's a lot of satisfying aspects about working with Stephen.
01:14I think he is willing to try anything.
01:17He is utterly unafraid.
01:20And so, even though he has a more humanist point of view,
01:24he's willing to go very dark.
01:25He's willing to try dark things.
01:28He's willing to insert humor when you least expect it,
01:31where a lot of people would be too careful.
01:34Oh!
01:35Oh, my gosh, are you okay?
01:37Okay.
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