Alan Wake interview at Finnish TV show "Huomenta Suomi" during May 11, 2010. Thanks to SinfulOcelot for subtitles. Sorry for the crappy sound and video quality. ;)
The Dark Presence was changing the environment all the time. I suddenly found myself on a talk show, speaking Finnish, a language I'd never spoken a word of. I didn't know why I was here, but I knew if I wanted to get back to Alice, I had to play along...
The Dark Presence was changing the environment all the time. I suddenly found myself on a talk show speaking Finnish. a language I'd never spoken a word of. I didn't know why I was here, but I knew if I wanted to get back to Alice, I had to play along...
He played both Alan and Mr. Scratch. If you look in the first game, he plays Alan in those bits where he's on the TV writing the manuscript as well as in a TV interview in one of the flashbacks.
1: That's... I can't imagine they taught anything like that back when you were studying to be an actor, do they teach that these days either? 2: No, hardly. This was definitely a learning process. Of course I've advanced a lot as well and noticed lots of new things while doing these things. I've also thought about the whole thing a lot and made notes of the things that helped me doing those things easier, for future reference. 4:35 - 5:00
2: Now what I've been doing for most of the last year has been all the motions for the character and I've had to study lots of lines as well. 1: Actually you brought a tape with you, especially about the motions and we might go and see what is actually happening here. Here you see, so... 2: Yuh. Here is one of the more action oriented ones. And what's interesting about this is you see the body and face were done separately. 1:58 - 3:02
@TerminatorJesse he does at 5:30 ! He's probably saying the usual, "In my day all I had was Super Mario 2, and now the games look so life like," Like every one says!
2: Yeah. It's pretty cool looking, the technology is wonderful these days. At the point I got into this thing the thoughts I had were more like some Super Mario type modeling. I never thought it'd look like that back then. It's totally incredible what they're able of accomplishing these days. The stubble is there and everything... 1: Well are you dreaming of world conquest, what can this do to your career? 5:21 - 5:48
2: Well, no. The first years I had were more about the character model department so they took thousands and thousands of photos of me that were used to build the model and also to get the feeling and to help in the development work, from how I understood in the scripting work and everything else to get the world in the game together. Plus the photos of the landscapes that were shown at the beginning were being tried together with them as the game was being developed further. 1:58 - 2:29
@martitta1 We do have future time too. We can say anything in finnish that could be said in english. We just have the extensions that change the meaning at the end of the words where in english they have it before. An example: I will go. In finnish: Minä menen. Where "Minä" = "I" and "menen" = "will go". I am going. In finnish: Minä olen menossa. Where "Minä" = "I" and "olen menossa" = "am going". Hope this helped.
WRONG! He is the character model for both Alan and Mr.Scratch, he just wears different clothes and does his hair differently when he play's Mr.Scratch as he is supposed to be Alan's evil doppleganger who looks exactly like him but where's different clothes and does his hair differently.
2: Uhh, well, actually I got a call from an office that was looking for actors for movies, tv productions and others, so yeah they called me and asked if I was interested in this kinda thing. Of course I didn't know anything about it back then, but of course I jumped in and after the auditions Remedy called me and asked if I was interested to come over and talk for a bit. Somehow everything worked well, our thoughts synched and so on so that's where it begun. 1:00 - 1:31
1: They wanted you for Alan Wake? 2: Well yeah, apparently I somehow matched the image they had of the character in their original script. 1: They have made success with Max Payne earlier and this Alan Wake is something even more bigger and greater. 500 pages of script. 2: Yeah. 1: Did you have to study it all? 1:31 - 1:58
Wtf??Alan Wake exists?? I'm playing this game on the xbox, freakin love the game! So spooky and exciting..be he is alive??Wonder if they are Takens up there aswell.
2: Well yeah, and then there was also a little thing about the face department. Not only did I have to connect with the body acting from 1 month back but we also had Matthew Porretta, an American voicing Alan Wake, so I also had to match my own lip movements with his voice. So at the same time you have your own body, other person's voice, own face. But yeah... 4:04 - 4:35
in English: 1=Interviewer 2=Ilkka Villi 1: On friday it'll begin: Alan Wake's European conquest and then week from that USA will hopefully be on its knees in front of the new Finnish console game. But who is Alan Wake? Well anyway the one who's given him his face is the actor Ilkka Villi, Good morning. 2: Morning. 1: You're Alan Wake in a way. 2: In a way, yeah. 1: You've been the character model to him. 2: Yep. 1: And this process started 5 years ago, what happened? 0-1:00
2: Yeah, spanish and english are the languages that I handle really well so I could act with them. But well... you never know what the future holds. 1: Well we'll be keeping our thumbs up, thanks for being here, Ilkka Villi. 2: Thanks a lot. 6:15 ->
Okey, this is the first time someone called me 'bro'. And it's quite funny, because I would expect something more like 'sis' or so. :D And yeah, I heard Remedy is 'thinking about' the sequel, so I hope they done this thinking right. However, the Alan Wake project took them 5 years, so we can just hope and wait and wait and wait... And greeting from Slovakia too :)
So dude, in Slovakia we have Alexanders too and we call them Sasha too, but mostly than that, we call them Shano (where the 'n' letter sounds like n in a word 'new'). But in our country is more popular female name Alexandra, so that's where it's from. (Anyway, Sasha is not even my real name :). I'm studying Russian and there's Sasha mostly male name too, so I don't mind so much that you have called me bro :) And yeah, we have to get used to waiting, if we really want what we are waiting for.
@foxylover777 Ou yeah I forgot that part. At first I thought that there was some Finnish word that sounded like "Super Mario 2" to you, so thats why I was kinda curious, lol.
Oh dude(dude can be applied for girls too :P), sorry XD In Serbia Sasha is more male name than female, usually short from Alexander. Though rare as it is, females are named that way too. Sorry again, I didn't know, I just assumed :D We gamers are used to waiting and waiting and waiting, for sequils, expansions, patches and all sort of other things :D Hope to see you around, SIS xD
Maybe yes, but there is difference between what's wierd and what's recognisable. I'm not saying YOU can't think it's wierd. I just don't think it depends as much on nationality as on each one's opinion.
2: But it's been pretty new to all the participants in the project. 1: And to think your face will soon be familiar to millions and millions of console gamers, because now that I really saw you live the first time when I came to lämpiö I got the desire to take it in my hands and doing this like "soon it'll move if I keep tapping it". 5:00 - 5:21
2: Here you can see what the final outcome really looks like in the game, so yeah. 1: Face and body were done separately? 2: Yup. So you could say this was actually pretty fragile and puzzle-like project and it consisted of many small pieces that were put together that lead to the final outcome that we saw there. So yeah, the body was made in a studio in New York using motion capture. 3:02 - 3:31
Well nationality does kind of affect what sounds weird. For instance, I bet no Finns find their language weird. And I'm sure some dude in Indo China is gonna find it weird more than Sweeds find it weird. So nationality, and geographic location does kind of affect how weir or not it sounds. And to me, Finnish is just compleatly weird and unknown. But I agree, it varies from person to person. I'm sure there are Serbs who DON'T find Finnish weird.
2: I was in a tight spandex suit full of styrofoam ball sized motion probes that captured all the movements. But yeah the thing that body was made in New York and then the face department in Phoenix, Arizona that was also shown there when I had my face full of those little stickers that capture the face's expressions. 1: Well that's certainly internationalism when you go all over the place like that. 3:31 - 4:04
absajev 5 year old comment but I thought I’d reply anyway. He’s not saying anything extra, really. The subtitle is pretty accurate. It’s just that things take a lot longer (sometimes an absurdly long time to someone who doesn’t speak the language) to say in Finnish; words are longer in general and there are no articles or prepositions!
@IllusiveSerb Really? You can't discern the Scandinavian languages from Korean, Japanese and the Chinese languages, all of which sound different in their own right?
We're all Slavs, so there's not much diference. Though Czeh Republic, Slovakia, Poland and croatia, are more influanced by the west. Well, I'm not sure about Czeho-Slovakia but these other two are. Still at our cores we're still crazy Slavs and we are very similar. May I ask what's your real name? :D Send me a message if you'd not share it with the world :P About the waiting, yea, it's easier to wait gor games than some other things, real world related :D
2: Uhh, well, I think pretty patiently about this. These entertainment industry laws, I don't even understand much about them. I see it pretty unlikely that my career's gonna jump but of course everything good that comes due to this, all interesting job offerings etc. are taken on gratefully but I'm not expecting anything special or building up castles in the skies. 1: But you have that good thing you speak fluent spanish so the Latin America might give opportunities. 5:48 - 6:15
Shit, how do I recover from this... Erm... He may have been joking, but what you don't know is that joke will destroy the world if left not misunderstood. /mnightshyamalan
Well that's what ppl usually think about other languages... I myself think that swedish is strange language even though it's actully Finland's second language. XD
Weird, the finnish pronunciation sounds like a mix between japanese and spanish. P.S. I advice activating the subtitles provided by RUclips, it looks like they are well made, I mean they make sense if you read them
I have to agree too, about the nationality thing even when I said something other previous. But I'm glad we ended up with this kind of compromise, where you're right and me too. And I bet we also agree on one another thing - the brilliant Alan Wake. Because I think that's the main reason we are here, not the language. :)
The Dark Presence was changing the environment all the time. I suddenly found myself on a talk show, speaking Finnish, a language I'd never spoken a word of. I didn't know why I was here, but I knew if I wanted to get back to Alice, I had to play along...
You made my day xD
+toddsmitts and next thing you know you have to shoot everything
+toddsmitts I just read this with Alan Wake's voice. You are great.
ΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΑΗΗΑΗΑΗΑΗ... Hilarious man!!! XD XD
stolen comment, same one is just scroll down
Trapped in a loop appearing in different talk shows for 13 years 😫
He's got very kind eyes and such a pleasant voice!
Right ( :
Thank you for English translate. Also thanks, Finland, for Remedy and Poets of the Fall.
Also for Nokia.
5:20 ”Yeah it pretty much looks like me. Technology is amazing nowdays”
Fast forward 13 years and now we have almost photo realistic character models.
The Dark Presence was changing the environment all the time. I suddenly found myself on a talk show speaking Finnish. a language I'd never spoken a word of. I didn't know why I was here, but I knew if I wanted to get back to Alice, I had to play along...
He's speaks really good english. Like perfect american English. He couldve easily took the games character
He played both Alan and Mr. Scratch. If you look in the first game, he plays Alan in those bits where he's on the TV writing the manuscript as well as in a TV interview in one of the flashbacks.
Ilkka, thank you for keeping up your fantastic acting :D
What a cool guy. Humble people = the best.
Finnish is a very interesting language, it sound like a mix between japanese and spanish.
Interesting you say that because both languages and their sounds have helped and continue helping me to learn Finnish .
Oh wow this is quite a retrospective. I do hope AW2 will give him so many acting jobs.
Thanks for sharing this with us, quite interesing to see this interview :)
I love how she said "thanks a lot"
At the end: "RUK!"
What a Beautiful man
ooooh thanks. i didnt see the subtitles because i was watching it on my ipod lol
hehe i don't need subtitles
1: That's... I can't imagine they taught anything like that back when you were studying to be an actor, do they teach that these days either?
2: No, hardly. This was definitely a learning process. Of course I've advanced a lot as well and noticed lots of new things while doing these things. I've also thought about the whole thing a lot and made notes of the things that helped me doing those things easier, for future reference.
4:35 - 5:00
Put subtitles on and you should be able to understand the rest of it too. ;)
2: Now what I've been doing for most of the last year has been all the motions for the character and I've had to study lots of lines as well.
1: Actually you brought a tape with you, especially about the motions and we might go and see what is actually happening here. Here you see, so...
2: Yuh. Here is one of the more action oriented ones. And what's interesting about this is you see the body and face were done separately.
1:58 - 3:02
Someone else voiced it over. That is what I heard.
@TerminatorJesse thank you for the subtitles . i faved the vid
@TerminatorJesse he does at 5:30 ! He's probably saying the usual, "In my day all I had was Super Mario 2, and now the games look so life like," Like every one says!
It's not Alan it's mr. Scratch
Alan Wake=Sonera man's adventures
He was basically just explaining her about mocap in depth.
2: Yeah. It's pretty cool looking, the technology is wonderful these days. At the point I got into this thing
the thoughts I had were more like some Super Mario type modeling. I never thought it'd look like that back then.
It's totally incredible what they're able of accomplishing these days. The stubble is there and everything...
1: Well are you dreaming of world conquest, what can this do to your career?
5:21 - 5:48
2: Well, no. The first years I had were more about the character model department so they took thousands and thousands of photos of me that were used to build the model and also to get the feeling and to help in the development work, from how I understood in the scripting work and everything else to get the world in the game together. Plus the photos of the landscapes that were shown at the beginning were being tried together with them as the game was being developed further.
1:58 - 2:29
@martitta1 We do have future time too. We can say anything in finnish that could be said in english. We just have the extensions that change the meaning at the end of the words where in english they have it before. An example: I will go. In finnish: Minä menen. Where "Minä" = "I" and "menen" = "will go". I am going. In finnish: Minä olen menossa. Where "Minä" = "I" and "olen menossa" = "am going". Hope this helped.
WRONG! He is the character model for both Alan and Mr.Scratch, he just wears different clothes and does his hair differently when he play's Mr.Scratch as he is supposed to be Alan's evil doppleganger who looks exactly like him but where's different clothes and does his hair differently.
I know I'm pretty late to the party, but "lämpiö" is green room. Cheers
@martitta1 I've added English subtitles now.
2: Uhh, well, actually I got a call from an office that was looking for actors for movies, tv productions and others, so yeah they called me and asked if I was interested in this kinda thing. Of course I didn't know anything about it back then, but of course I jumped in and after the auditions Remedy called me and asked if I was interested to come over and talk for a bit. Somehow everything worked well,
our thoughts synched and so on so that's where it begun.
1:00 - 1:31
1: They wanted you for Alan Wake?
2: Well yeah, apparently I somehow matched the image they had of the character in their original script.
1: They have made success with Max Payne earlier and this Alan Wake is something even more bigger and greater.
500 pages of script.
2: Yeah.
1: Did you have to study it all?
1:31 - 1:58
Wtf??Alan Wake exists??
I'm playing this game on the xbox, freakin love the game! So spooky and exciting..be he is alive??Wonder if they are Takens up there aswell.
2: Well yeah, and then there was also a little thing about the face department. Not only did I have to connect with the body acting from 1 month back but we also had Matthew Porretta, an American voicing Alan Wake, so I also had to match my own lip movements with his voice. So at the same time you have your own body, other person's voice, own face. But yeah...
4:04 - 4:35
"[Take] it in my hands and doing this like 'soon it'll move if I keep tapping it'."
in English: 1=Interviewer 2=Ilkka Villi
1: On friday it'll begin: Alan Wake's European conquest and then week from that USA will hopefully be on its knees in front of the new Finnish console game. But who is Alan Wake? Well anyway the one who's given him his face is the actor Ilkka Villi, Good morning.
2: Morning.
1: You're Alan Wake in a way.
2: In a way, yeah.
1: You've been the character model to him.
2: Yep.
1: And this process started 5 years ago, what happened?
0-1:00
Holy shit i just realisest that alan wake is Sonera guy
thanks for the awesome subing!
2: Yeah, spanish and english are the languages that I handle really well so I could act with them. But well...
you never know what the future holds.
1: Well we'll be keeping our thumbs up, thanks for being here, Ilkka Villi.
2: Thanks a lot.
6:15 ->
The channel's logo is almost the same as Blender's logo.
You really have to hunt for a video of Ilkka Villi don't you?
Certainly just Ilkka Villi being Ilkka Villi at least.
he was clearly joking
@mymarleyisgone I've added English subtitles now.
Okey, this is the first time someone called me 'bro'. And it's quite funny, because I would expect something more like 'sis' or so. :D
And yeah, I heard Remedy is 'thinking about' the sequel, so I hope they done this thinking right. However, the Alan Wake project took them 5 years, so we can just hope and wait and wait and wait...
And greeting from Slovakia too :)
So dude, in Slovakia we have Alexanders too and we call them Sasha too, but mostly than that, we call them Shano (where the 'n' letter sounds like n in a word 'new'). But in our country is more popular female name Alexandra, so that's where it's from. (Anyway, Sasha is not even my real name :). I'm studying Russian and there's Sasha mostly male name too, so I don't mind so much that you have called me bro :)
And yeah, we have to get used to waiting, if we really want what we are waiting for.
@foxylover777 Ou yeah I forgot that part. At first I thought that there was some Finnish word that sounded like "Super Mario 2" to you, so thats why I was kinda curious, lol.
@Imnotweirdo Tarkoittanet varmaan Soneran miestä, ja niissähän Ilkka Villi esiintyy
You sir, are a genius. ;)
Oh dude(dude can be applied for girls too :P), sorry XD In Serbia Sasha is more male name than female, usually short from Alexander. Though rare as it is, females are named that way too. Sorry again, I didn't know, I just assumed :D
We gamers are used to waiting and waiting and waiting, for sequils, expansions, patches and all sort of other things :D
Hope to see you around, SIS xD
Maybe yes, but there is difference between what's wierd and what's recognisable. I'm not saying YOU can't think it's wierd. I just don't think it depends as much on nationality as on each one's opinion.
Has he done an interview about playing Mr. Scratch in the new game where he's all psycho in the tvS?
It is the Finnish language. He speaks it because it's a Finnish TV show filmed in Finland and two native Finnish speakers are discussing in it.
@foxylover777 You mean that they said "Super Mario 2" at some point? lol
2: But it's been pretty new to all the participants in the project.
1: And to think your face will soon be familiar to millions and millions of console gamers, because now that I really saw you live the first time when I came to lämpiö I got the desire to take it in my hands and doing this like "soon it'll move if I keep tapping it".
5:00 - 5:21
Did she call him Alan Wake at the end where the subtitles said Illka?
Alan Wake is up against goblins!
He's so fucking attractive.
2: Here you can see what the final outcome really looks like in the game, so yeah.
1: Face and body were done separately?
2: Yup. So you could say this was actually pretty fragile and puzzle-like project and it consisted of many small
pieces that were put together that lead to the final outcome that we saw there. So yeah, the body was made in
a studio in New York using motion capture.
3:02 - 3:31
Well nationality does kind of affect what sounds weird. For instance, I bet no Finns find their language weird. And I'm sure some dude in Indo China is gonna find it weird more than Sweeds find it weird. So nationality, and geographic location does kind of affect how weir or not it sounds. And to me, Finnish is just compleatly weird and unknown. But I agree, it varies from person to person. I'm sure there are Serbs who DON'T find Finnish weird.
@FlagshipFighter now you can say a video game character is hot and it wouldnt be weird
2: I was in a tight spandex suit full of styrofoam ball sized motion probes that captured all the movements. But yeah the thing that body was made in New York and then the face department in Phoenix, Arizona that was also shown there when I had my face full of those little stickers that capture the face's expressions.
1: Well that's certainly internationalism when you go all over the place like that.
3:31 - 4:04
Please, take the internet. It's yours.
thats why i could figure matthew poretta with alan wake.! he was only the voice, what is the name of this guy, the original alan wake?
@TerminatorJesse because some people cant speak finnish
and we really want to know what this is about
Can´t w8t for Alan Wake2!
did you get it? it's a blast!
Hi man! No i haven´t yet i need a better computer :) Yes i have heard :) @@Catinkontti
@FlagshipFighter I´m totally agree with you ♥
They're speaking finnish. And he speaks it because it's his native language.
lol Yea. It's OK.
I think, like, because he has stubble like Mr.Scratch in this interview, he's not Alan Awake. At least I think that's what he meant.
can anyone make Finnish subtitles of it?
please please please
Not exactly clearly joking, I've seen lots of people genuinely complaining when he's been referenced as Alan Wake saying "BS he's Mr.Scratch!"
round 3:40, I wonder what he is actually talking about while the subtitle stayed the same......
absajev 5 year old comment but I thought I’d reply anyway. He’s not saying anything extra, really. The subtitle is pretty accurate. It’s just that things take a lot longer (sometimes an absurdly long time to someone who doesn’t speak the language) to say in Finnish; words are longer in general and there are no articles or prepositions!
@martitta1 Why you want Finnish subtitles?
What's the music from 0 to 0:35?
@IllusiveSerb Really? You can't discern the Scandinavian languages from Korean, Japanese and the Chinese languages, all of which sound different in their own right?
We're all Slavs, so there's not much diference. Though Czeh Republic, Slovakia, Poland and croatia, are more influanced by the west. Well, I'm not sure about Czeho-Slovakia but these other two are. Still at our cores we're still crazy Slavs and we are very similar.
May I ask what's your real name? :D Send me a message if you'd not share it with the world :P
About the waiting, yea, it's easier to wait gor games than some other things, real world related :D
2: Uhh, well, I think pretty patiently about this. These entertainment industry laws, I don't even understand much about them. I see it pretty unlikely that my career's gonna jump but of course everything good that comes due to this, all interesting job offerings etc. are taken on gratefully but I'm not expecting anything special or building up castles in the skies.
1: But you have that good thing you speak fluent spanish so the Latin America might give opportunities.
5:48 - 6:15
@HockeyHedman97 Eipä mitään, muitakin Alan Wakeen liittyviä TV haastatteluita tulossa kunhan jaksan ne uploadata tänne. ;)
Shit, how do I recover from this...
Erm...
He may have been joking, but what you don't know is that joke will destroy the world if left not misunderstood.
/mnightshyamalan
So HOT
@LostPlanetC no eiku siperiassa ohjelmoitiin commodore 64:sel
Well that's what ppl usually think about other languages... I myself think that swedish is strange language even though it's actully Finland's second language. XD
All I understood was Alan wake and max Payne.
Missä Elisan mainoksessa esiintyy Tommi Korpela? Ei tietääkseni yhdessäkään.
@TerminatorJesse To see how they look like:) it's difficult language but i just need it
He's so cute! and hot too!
Weird, the finnish pronunciation sounds like a mix between japanese and spanish.
P.S. I advice activating the subtitles provided by RUclips, it looks like they are well made, I mean they make sense if you read them
I heard Super Mario 2!!!
Hahahaha so true bro, so true :D
Let's enjoy the awesome game and hope there's a sequil soon :D
Greets from Serbia ;)
Ruk !
yo man thanks for sub man ur the mannnn
Hahaha genius! That made my day!
I have to agree too, about the nationality thing even when I said something other previous. But I'm glad we ended up with this kind of compromise, where you're right and me too. And I bet we also agree on one another thing - the brilliant Alan Wake. Because I think that's the main reason we are here, not the language. :)
lmao brilliant
jep
@TerminatorJesse Ei se kukaa Tommi Korpela oo elisan mainoksissa ja tämä on ihan sama mies kuin niissä mainoksissa...
On joo!! n_n En tiiä mitä toi terminator jesse sekoilee, ei oo yhtään tommi k. Googlettamalla asia selviää. Ilkka Villi on huippu :)
@Imnotweirdo tarkoitit varmaan soneran mainosta?