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外媒：Obviously, one of the most important scenes in the movie is the death of Thomas’s best friend, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), which plays out very differently from the book.

導演：It does. In fact, Newt’s story in general is incredibly different from the book. A third of the way through, Newt disappears and later writes a letter. Then, almost by chance, Thomas finds him on the side of the road and shoots him in the head. In our movie, that wouldn’t work — it just wouldn’t.

You want to stay with Newt for as long as possible and show his slow demise. Ultimately, it's the catalyst for Thomas to change as a character. in much the same way that Teresa in the second movie tells the story of her mother who got infected and went crazy.

This is the story for Thomas where he's been personally affected by virus, and he knows that there's a way this will never happen to anyone else again if he goes back.

然而在電影中我們不能那樣做——肯定不能，因為我們都想盡可能多地和紐特待在一起，看著病毒慢慢感染他。最终，紐特的死徹底改變了湯瑪士，正如在第二部中泰瑞莎講述母親的感染和發瘋徹底改變了她一樣（從而促使她開發血清）。這是一個湯瑪士如何被狂客病毒深深觸動而改變的故事，而且在紐特死後他終於明白，如果他回到總部幫助開發血清，這件事就不會發生在任何人身上了

I was also interested in seeing Newt struggle with the monster inside taking over slowly and consuming him, essentially. Every time I went to that visual from the book of Thomas shooting Newt, I felt like it would just be too harsh. So we went this route

我也很想看到紐特如何與體内的惡魔做鬥爭。每次我試圖在腦海裡重現湯瑪士開槍打死纽特的場景時，我都覺得太殘酷了，這樣拍不下去。因此我們做了改動

With our versions of the characters, there’s no question in my mind that Thomas would never willingly kill Newt, ever. It doesn’t matter if he was Cranking out and going crazy — he would do everything in his power to not do that.

I could never figure out how to put him in a position where he would willingly pull a trigger and shoot his friend in the head.

從我們的視角來看，湯瑪士是絕對不可能開槍打死紐特的——即使紐特變成狂客，或者發瘋。無論如何湯瑪士都不會開槍的。因此我從未想出在哪種情況下湯瑪士才願意對昔日的摯友扣下板機

導演你老實說你是Newtmas粉沒錯吧www

喜歡生理虐紐特心理虐湯瑪士……

套句微博網友的話，完全掌握AO3寫作秘笈，把你的AO3帳號交出來喔導演

這部電影最近討論度很高呢汪 (っ´ω`c)

湯瑪士是絕對不可能開槍打死紐特的
這句我同意導演

球導可是準備拍婚禮的佛羅里達支票王ㄋ

lisa206398: 我也同意導演

crownzero0: 給我兌現支票喔球導

導演在Twitter上回答粉絲的提問
Wes Ball

他說民豪還有其他人有將紐特的屍體帶回去，在safe haven那裡安息

還有最後看信的時候，小桑其實就坐在鏡頭外唸給狄倫聽QQQ
Wes Ball

所以導演說，可以想像成紐特的靈魂當時就在那裡 (在湯瑪士身邊)

淦

想到Lofter上有人畫的圖 TATTTT
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想到那段狄倫的演技...(湯瑪士在看信的時候流的眼淚)，小桑就在旁邊唸給他聽一定讓他更有fu吧 TwT

啊對了，導演還有說，那封信是小桑親筆書寫的喔！導演說他把它留作紀念禮物收藏了😂

針對為什麼要將小說中最後的關鍵武器：槍，改成了刀，編劇TS諾林大大也有出來解釋說：因為電影的設定裡還有能暫緩病毒的血清，而且也有Thomas身上的解藥，所以只要Thomas知道還有任何一絲希望可以救Newt，他就絕對不可能像小說那樣開槍殺死Newt (即便那是在幫助Newt解脫)

編劇說：我們想把他們兩個(Newt和Thomas)連結得更緊密...

編劇說：我們故意讓Thomas在失去最親密朋友的那一瞬間才知道自己就是能救他的解藥...

靠腰喔...

補充一下，編劇上面的意思應該是，Newt的死和Thomas作為「final candidate」都是來自原作小說本來就有的元素，但編劇故意將這兩者在電影改動得讓它們連結的更加緊密，同時也讓Thomas和Newt兩人連結的更加緊密了

因為Thomas在書中雖然作為「final candidate」，但是不是像電影設定的那樣是最終解藥，小說中Thomas不是解藥，而且直到結局WCKD也都沒有找出解藥。然而電影改成設定Thomas就是那最終解藥，進而跟Newt的死也有了更深更直接的連結

[冰瑚@在豪華郵輪上等開船] 【跟風】 #空氣新刊 給我一個新刊標題，...

看到 binhoo 的這篇Newtmas的小短打，立刻想到之前導演說的還有編劇之前發的推

導演和編劇都說，Newt的死就是觸動和改變Thomas的關鍵，然後編劇後來還在推上說，他想像以後Thomas會選擇離開安全港，回去舊大陸找尋可能還存活的醫生和設備(可能來自WCKD)，然後貢獻自己的血協助研發解藥去救更多的人

覺得冰瑚寫的內容 尤其最後那幾句話肯定就是導演和編劇想表達的意思啊嗚嗚嗚