[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”31176″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]2014’s Snowpiercer is one of my all-time favorite movies. Centering around a non-stop moving train seventeen years after the world was thrown into a mega Ice Age, the messages and visual beauty of the movie is unparallel.
In 2020, TBS will be coming out with a Snowpiercer series that will take place seven years after the snowy apocalypse. The plot will essentially be the same. The difference is that this is a show, rather than a movie. So, there are more elements that can be explored. Characters can be expanded on and different train cars can be developed more. While the movie had the cars for the “elite”, the poor, the school car, sushi car, a nightclub, and so many others, the series will introduce the Nightcar.
According to Screen Rant, the Nightcar was originally a brothel and is now the heart of the train, where inhabitants go to forget their troubles. Several actors from the series expressed what to expect from the Nightcar, as well as the issues of sex, birth control, and grief that are spawned from it.
Sheila Vand and Graeme spoke about how the Nightcar is more than just a place for sex, but rather for emotion.
Lena Hall plays the Madam of the Nightcar, Miss Audrey:
Hall: Miss Audrey… was supposed to just run this brothel that’s on this luxury liner. And then suddenly it’s become the ark, so she had to find some other thing that was a little more helpful than just being the madam of a brothel. And she’s an incredible empath, and actually possesses some psychic abilities, and can help people. she’s almost like a therapist, she helps people get off the train in their mind, she helps them deal with the loss of the old world, all of the people they left behind, the death… kind of work through the trauma, so that they can survive in these tight quarters.
Vand: Yeah, and so the night car isn’t really specifically about sex, actually, it’s more of like a hypnotic therapy that allows you to access your memories from before the train. And so people can visit loved ones that they’ve lost. And from my character, she’s so existential on this train, she’s just like, what is even the purpose? Like, why did we all survive, like, we’re miserable, we all were traumatized. So I think the night car is something that she finds some value in, like creativity, but there is definitely a sensuality to it.
Manson: For Lena’s character, and for sure, Sheila’s, who also works in the night car, they discovered that at the end of the world, people weren’t coming to the night car for sex anymore, they were coming to grieve. They needed to, you know, and sex can be part of it, perhaps. But there is a more important, they found a more important thing to do with the night car, which is to tend to the sort of soul in the train.
Hall and Steven Ogg also continued in talking about how the Nightcar will bring forth realizations of certain worldly possessions running out:
Hall: It slowly will paint the picture of all these issues [alcohol, birth control, etc running out]. There are some things that I’ve brought up and I’m like, “I want answers dammit!”, we need to have an episode about what happens when the lipstick runs out! You know, because it is bizarrely such a part of Miss Audrey’s character is that she’s like a Dita Von Teese. Always picture perfect, has to be. So what happens for her when her beloved red lipstick is out?
Ogg: Like, the birth control thing’s interesting, because it’s dealt with on the train. The birth control thing, it is addressed. And there’s things that come up on the show that are relevant to that and how is that dealt with, because I think that’s pretty interesting and also how different sections of the train deal with it.
What do you think about the Nightcar and the stories we can expect to focus around it?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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