The portrayal is indeed intimate and personal as they ready to return to the global stage. Their journey is one he compares to that of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” Nguyen said, “When I first saw them at the So-Fi show, there was something really magical in that show, and just their connection to ARMY and that mythical storytelling that I always think about. ARMY was like Penelope, and BTS was like Odysseus.” Popular on Variety
Between the footage his crew shot and that shot by BTS, Nguyen ended up with over 40 terabytes of footage.
The high stakes and pressures of their return is the core thread running through the documentary.
Joining Nguyen for the conversation were producers R.J. Cutler and Jane Cha Cutler. The team came in slightly later in the making of the album. Nguyen admitted, “They had picked a lot of songs and they were tweaking. My fear was like, “Oh, we’re just gonna capture, like people at their best, doing their best, which is not the best type of storytelling and drama.’ But within the first couple of days, we had live translation when we were filming. But I was watching the footage afterwards. You can see and hear this pressure, this challenge and tension.”
It’s just one of the many moments of the group coming together, but showing their uniqueness to a global audience, along with their sense of brotherhood and camaraderie.
R.J Cutler explained the 92-minute documentary really gets to the “guts of what it means to be BTS and how that relates to what it means to be each of them individually.” He added, “That’s a very rare thing to see with a legendary band. There are few and far between the films and the music documentary canon that you can think of that do that.”
Source: variety.com