the little matchgirl ( 2006 film )
disney resists giving a disney version ending to the little matchgirl. © disney .
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the little matchgirl
revolves around a tiny urchin who spends her days attempting to sell matches in the snowy streets. huddling for warmth, the film follows as the little girl lights her wares to keep warm and dreams of a better life .
roger allers was born in new york. he made his feature film debut with ‘the lion king’ (co - director, 1994) following two decades working on disney classics including ‘beauty and the beast’ (1991) and ‘the lion king’ (1994). he was nominated for an oscar for the short film ‘the little matchgirl’ (2006) .
roger allers is the director of “the little matchgirl, ” and don hahn, the producer. the film was made by the walt disney animation studios and the riiff screening on tuesday. august 8, marked its east coast premiere :
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okay, good luck with the review! i' m looking forward to it! i' m doing an review on frozen fever since you did the little matchgirl .
gtm: the film appears to be set in russia. why the choice of the location ?
roger allers' short retelling of hans christian anderson' s
the little matchgirl
is a moving and melancholy piece of work. a drama that allows a little girl to imagine fantasies of warmth and happiness, the film is a downcast yet hopeful animated dirge whose form effective communicates its protagonist' s plight .
together in death: the little match girl and her grandmother reunite in heaven .
i praise disney for keeping the original ending to this story .
the little matchgirl
is one, if not the best, animated short i' ve ever seen, it really moves me .
the little matchgirl (2006), 6: 37, by roger allers (u. s. a .). contact; emily hoppe, marketing and communication, walt disney feature animation [ t ] 818. 460. 8936, [ f ] 818. 460. 9202 [ e ] emily. hoppe @ urltoken
in the hbo storybook musicals version the little girl does not die and it ends happily ever after .
don hahn: matchgirl was made by many talented artists that were between projects so the tempo of production was slow and steady .
died happily ever after: the little match girl, after having finally reunited with her grandmother in the afterlife .
the little matchgirl
is a rarity among andersen' s tales, as he was not known for writing stories with social commentary in mind. andersen wrote
the little matchgirl
in response to the plights of poor children everywhere, forced to work or beg in order to help support their family. ron barbagallo of the animation art conservation notes that the story was published nine years after dickens' oliver twist. since andersen and dickens were colleagues and good friends, it is probable that andersen was influenced to write
the little matchgirl
due to oliver twist. other inspirations for andersen' s tale also includes an illustration by johan thomas lundbye, and a grimm fairy tale ,
the star money .
a professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern seoul village for three days .
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disney' s version of
the little matchgirl
uses pantomime and music, since it was intended for a third fantasia film that never came to be. the filmmakers wanted to adapt
the little matchgirl ,
and had to then select the proper music. ultimately, they chose
nocturne from string quartet no. 2 in d major
by alexander borodin. in addition to selecting music by the russian composer, they also set the film in pre - revolutionary russia. director roger allers explained that decision by pointing out that the actual andersen tale never fully specifies its location - though many would assume denmark. in addition, allers loved russian architecture, and felt that its time period would better convey the differences between the haves and have - nots .
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i used to cry so much everytime i read this story when i was a little girl .
she lights another match, and sees horse - drawn sleigh approach her. she climbs in, with a warm blanket ready to wrap around her, as the horses ride away, taking her into the woods to grandmother' s house. she goes to hug her grandmother, but the light extinguishes once again. in a desperate attempt to see her grandmother, the little matchgirl lights all her remaining matches. this brings her back to the house and grandmother, where she' s led into a room bearing a christmas tree. as the little girl lights candles on the tree, they fade into snowflakes. we return to the alleyway. the little girl lies still in the snow, but now her grandmother returns to take her home. as the grandmother carries her into the light, the little matchgirl' s body remains .
gtm: the music by borodin flows effortlessly throughout the film; which provides emotional peaks at all the right moments. how was this done ?
taylor jessen reviews five short films - - the little matchgirl by roger allers, a gentlemans duel by francisco ruiz and sean mcnally, maestro by ga th, childs trip by kei takahashi and tartes aux pommes by isabelle favez. includes quicktime movie clips !
( september 2006) i am writing this in the middle of the 10th anniversary of the rhode island international film festival. the crowds have been steady and over 200 filmmakers have registered for the films screening during the week. advance statistics indicate a minimum of four sell - outs. this year, counting some last minute additions, riiff will have screened 303 titles .
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ds: watching lorenzo again, for example, i remembered just how much i absolutely fell in love with that film when it came out. the watercolor style – it’s truly beautiful. tick tock tale, the little match girl, all the films in the collection are strong .
light is good: the light of the little girl' s matches bring her warmth and comfort and visions of happiness. the light of the stars reminds her of heaven .
don hahn: we don’t think of a brand or a criteria when we make a film. but films with great story, great character and heart have always been associated with disney since the days of snow white. matchgirl is no different in its sincereity and depth of character .
go out with a smile: the little match girl dies with a smile because she sees her grandmother while wasting all her matches .
disney says the original plot of
the snow queen
was
too dark
to adapt as - is to film. makes this. o _ o
gtm: what does it mean to direct an animated film? the actors are really only characters that are created by the artists. how does one “direct” animation ?
spared by the adaptation: some versions (mostly modern ones) change the ending to a family rescuing the little girl before she could die and giving her food and a warm bed .
the full english translation can be found here. additionally, there was a french silent film that can be found here. the adaptation differs from the original, though. it has also been adapted as an audiobook with slideshow here. it' s been set to music in the piece
the little match girl passion
by american composer david lang, which won the 2008 pulitzer prize .
set in russia, the little matchgirl tells the story of an unnamed girl as she tries to make it through a harsh russian winter, with match’s with her only way to make money. she later uses all of her match’s to make her happy. at the end, a woman (assumed to be her dead grandmother), appears and takes her spirit to the afterlife. her frozen body remains in the snow pile .
of all of disney' s recent short films, the little matchgirl is the one where i genuinely wished it was a full - length feature film. not that this isn' t visually ambitious and quite moving already, but i think it would have been something truly special had it taken its time with the protagonist and her struggles to keep her spirit and herself alive. the bulk of the character development is through the memories she witnesses when she lights the matches, and while it' s efficient, those moments were never long enough to make me completely invested in the journey. and in doing so, the heavy sentimentality feels somewhat unearned, because on a few occasions, it felt like the filmmakers were saying to the…
about the author: george t. marshall is the producing director of the rhode island - based flickers arts collaborative, the creators of the annual rhode island international film festival for which he also serves as executive director. he teaches film and communications at rhode island college and speech communications and documentary film at roger williams university. he is a director, writer, producer of commercials and industrials for numerous business clients in the region and will be presenting his current research paper “teaching and the blogosphere” at the annual conference of the association for education in journalism and mass communication (aejmc) in august. he can be reached at flicksart @ urltoken
roger allers: for me, the virtue of traditional animation is the intimacy, the directness of the animator' s gesture, his line, his touch. in the little match girl, everything but the snowflakes was hand drawn. and even the large snowflakes at the beginning were hand painted and the designs transferred to the 3 - d planes which turned and fell .
tartes aux pommes (2006), 9: 28, directed by isabelle favez (switzerland). contact: swiss effects, thurgauerstrasse 40, 8050 zürich, switzerland [ t ] + 41. 44. 307. 10. 10 [ e ] info @ urltoken
a visual style piece set to music and told entirely through mime. the entire film is set to the third movement, “nocturne from string quartet no. 2 in d major” by alexander borodin .
for a very similar story with a little boy, see fyodor dostoevsky' s a child at christ' s christmas party, written thirty years later .
gtm: computer generated imagery is becoming so ubiquitous. what are the virtues of hand cell animation over computer work? what was hand drawn and what was computer generated in “the little match girl? ”
don hahn: each is different. many artists in los angeles and paris touched this film over the 4 years it was made depending upon their area of expertise and their availability .
disney shorts have played a huge part in the creative resurgence of the studio over the last decade – you only have to witness the palpable audience anticipation when a whistling “steamboat willie” mickey mouse hits the screen at an animation festival to understand how the mere logo fronting a disney short film means something special is on the way .
that was intended for a third fantasia film. it is set to alexander borodin' s
nocturne from string quartet no. 2 in d major
.
don hahn: the story is very moving but the essence is a story of hope. we found it especially moving because this is a situation that really happened a hundred years ago and is really happening today in 2006. i hope the audience will see that. i think there is also power in telling a story like this without spoken words. the images can and do carry all the emotion needed .
in a pre - revolutionary russia, a poor little matchgirl approaches various people throughout the town, hoping to sell some matches. she joyfully swings off a lamppost, hoping her energetic state will convince a prospective buyer. unfortunately, no one stops to buy any matches. night begins to fall, and the matchgirl knows she has to return home. on the way home, she stops in an alleyway. freezing, she lights one match. she imagines it turning into a furnace, warming her up immediately. however, the match goes out. she lights another, now seeing a holiday feast spread before her. as she grabs a turkey leg, the light goes out once more. some snow falls into her match box, and she pulls the matches out before they get sogged .
one of the saddest and most downbeat disney shorts that the company has ever done even leaving the h. c. andersen sad ending intact and showing the dark side of how poverty affect those most tiny and vulnerable of us. add the gloomy classical music and big sad eyes of the heroine and the film leaves everlasting images into my brain .
don hahn: the music by borodin flows effortlessly throughout the film; which provides emotional peaks at all the right moments. how was this done? much labor and careful work by roger and his editor jessica ambinder rojas to create this gentle timing .
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with dean and tick tock tale, i mentioned he boarded that himself. well, pretty much everybody that worked on that film was a trainee. everybody that worked on that film. from animators, to lighters, to effects. we got it done in about ten months. and it was really great for the trainees. they got to actually work on something that got produced .
gtm: when i tell people about “the little match girl” their first impulse is to think of the hans christian anderson story, which essentially is a downer. while remaining true to the original, there is something lyrical and poignant about your take on the story. how was this determined ?
heaven: when the little girl dies, the spirit of her grandmother carries her soul to heaven :
they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with god .
i recently had the opportunity to speak with dorothy mckim, producer on get a horse! , the ballad of nessie, tick tock tale and prep & landing: operation secret santa, who shared her thoughts on the dvd’s film selections as well as the importance of the studio’s continued support for their shorts production program .
mohammed saeed harib is a well - known emirati and chairman of lammtara. he created the highly popular animated tv series “freej”. the first season aired in 2006 and received rave reviews from viewers and critics alike with mohammed and “freej” becoming cultural icons recognized across the region. mohammed studied general arts and animation at northeastern university in boston. after establishing lammtara in 2005, he announced his first animation project “freej” .
the little match girl (originally titled: den lille pige med svovlstikkerne meaning the little girl with the matchsticks) is hans christian andersen' s short story about a dying child' s hallucinations on new year' s eve. first published in 1845, it has been adapted into different media such as a disney short and a made - for - tv movie. while technically a new years' eve story, it works at any time during the winter, especially christmas eve .
hicken little
ickey mouse clubhouse
ox and the hound
eauty & the beast
he hunchback of notre dame
what the hell happened! ? how could you make the same typo 5 times! ? also, i heard that many critics preferred brother bear' s sequel to the original .
dm: it does…it really does. and anybody can pitch. it doesn' t matter who you are. anybody can pitch. that' s what' s so great about it. and even if john [ lasseter ] doesn' t pick your pitch, there are a lot of times that he will say ,
you know, i really like this idea, i' d like to see you take that a little bit further. go for it, go do a little more research. ” even though they are working on a film, they can take time…we do a film coop program, where if you' ve got an idea, you can use people here, at the studio, and work on that idea. and these shorts, they’ve got the full support of the studio. i think that' s really great .
a gentlemans duel (2006), 7: 45, directed by francisco ruiz (mexico) and sean mcnally (u. s. a .). contact: jennifer miller, blur studio [ t ] 310. 581. 8848 [ f ] 310. 581. 8850 [ e ] jennifer @ urltoken, [ w ] www. urltoken
george t. marshall is the producing director of the rhode island - based flickers arts collaborative, the creators of the annual rhode island international film festival for which he also serves as executive director. he teaches documentary film and speech communications at roger williams university. he is a director, writer, producer of commercials and industrials for numerous business clients in the region. currently he is writing a chapter on teaching digital documentary filmmaking for a new college text book entitled: “teaching with multimedia: pedagogy in the blogo / websphere. ” he can be reached at flicksart @ urltoken
when the hunter returns with another days catch to give to the butcher, he and the butcher once again do their business indoors while the dog inhales the apple pie, this time with the cats bell inside. out comes the hunter with a sausage for the dog, who eats it, yelps, barks - - and chimes. the baker, hunter and butcher all stare at the dog wondering where the little bell sound is coming from. when they figure it out, the butcher is terrified. he mutters about how the dog has obviously eaten the cat, and imagines a scenario where this untamable beast eventually chases down the villagers one by one, forcing the whole town to flee and board up the windows - - the economy ruined and the dog roaring its domination to the heavens .
today marks the blu - ray dvd release of a brand new walt disney animation studios short film collection. some you’ve seen in theatres screened before studio features. others you may have never even heard about. all worth checking out .
in discworld (along with a take that), where death, standing in for the hogfather (discworld' s equivalent to santa claus) finds the little match girl lying in an alley surrounded by her burnt - out matches. his assistant albert explains that dying is sort of her purpose, and makes people feel better about their own poor situations. death is very cross at the fact that a child is freezing to death in the streets even at hogswatch and revives the little girl, even though it' s against the rules, and hands her over to the city watch to keep her warm and fed. death is not allowed to bring back the dead, but the hogfather can .
too good for this sinful earth: the pure - hearted and innocent little match girl dies and is sent to heaven. to quote from that page ,
the narrative does not so much carry this trope as flamboyantly juggle it while singing the complete score to handel' s messiah .
part of the reason most versions of the story are called
tragedy porn
.
dm: it' s a great group of films. and with the dvd bonus features, the audience can go in and see things about the films that they wouldn' t see at a screening. we do a lot of interviews and we talk about the process. we talk about little things that happened while we were making the films that nobody would ever know .
gtm: new england is rather lucky to have such a large number of schools specializing in film studies; along with young artists learning animation. why would a graduate from risd or the mass college of art want to work with disney feature animation ?
soon the woman comes out of her shop and sees the empty plate. again she waves to the butcher. the butcher, preoccupied with the rabbit hes putting in the grinder, only shrugs. the cat is wandering the street and the woman gets an idea, grabbing the cat and throwing it into her mouse - infested kitchen. but the cat merely tears around the room, not catching a single mouse and getting its collar stuck on the sink tap, and the woman kicks it out into the street again. the sun sets .
the story of the battle of iwo jima between the united states and imperial japan during world war ii, as told from the perspective of the japanese who fought it .
in the years where disney basically said :
fuck it! animation doesn' t need to have any meaning or be taken seriously, we just want more money !
, this short is a massive surprise in a 1 / 2 decade loaded with crap from them, considering a year before this, they released chicken little. and the same year as this came mickey mouse clubhouse, which totally ruined mickey' s reputation until 2010, as well as brother bear 2 and the fox and the hound 2, both regarded as two of the worst disney cheapquels. this was the second of hans christian anderson' s works to be adapted by them for theatres, with the first obviously being the little mermaid in 1989 .
don hahn: disney is a director driven studio that supports the vision of individual film makers. now under the creative leadership of john lasseter, we have a chance to reach out in many directions creatively and emotionally with our work and it makes disney a very exciting place to be these days .
and lastly this is a story for children. we were so happy to recently receive the children’s award from the zagreb animation festival voted on by the children in the audience. we thought they would go for something funny or wacky, but to have them respond to the art and story of roger’s film was really wonderful recognition that children are emotionally so open to stories that are real and compelling regardless of theme .
as the hunter and his dog hike out of town to hunt in the woods, the baker crosses the street to the butchers store and lays a freshly - baked apple pie beside the door. then she returns to her side of the street, pushing a broom around until she sees the butcher come to the window of his shop. she waves. he waves back. some customers come into the bakery and distract her, as the hunter and his dog return from the woods with a rabbit. the hunter goes inside the shop, leaving the dog outside, and the dog bolts down the tasty apple pie in short order. the hunter comes out of the butchers with a sausage for the dog, who gulps it down and barks at the butcher. they leave .
filmmakers have come in from as far away as australia and germany. the lifetime achievement award went to legendary actress, cicely tyson and riiff had the world premiere of her most recent film, “fat rose & squeaky. ” local filmmaker, michael corrente was honored with an annual creative vision award while a retrospective of his work took place at the local showcase cinema .
roger allers: you could ask 50 people that question and perhaps get as many answers. for me personally, a disney film is one that remembers all the age groups in the audience, neither trying to
talk down to
some, or
pander to the lowest common demoninator
, but respecting their intelligence, and seeking to delight and touch them .
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the room, and the short, is populated by two characters - - the first and by far the busiest being a simple mechanical clamp on an accordion - style grabber attached to the wall. we first see it mixing a drink from two bottles of liqueur on a trolley, and it pours a snifter of each in a mixer and shakes well before delivering it in a tall glass with a straw to the shorts second character. the maestro is sitting in front of the mirror, a bit jittery but otherwise passive and wooden - - literally, as hes a stout little bird carved from lumber .
on the outskirts of whoville, there lives a green, revenge - seeking grinch who plans on ruining the christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town .
the maestro has two ties to choose from, red and cerulean, and he goes with the blue one. slurping up the last of as his drink as quickly as possible before the grabber takes it away, the bird is spun in his chair prior to the grabber looping the tie around his neck. then it grabs him firmly by the back of the tie, lifts him off the chair and shoots him out the door for his evenings performance .
the butcher grabs the hunters gun and is about to shoot the dog when the hunter intervenes, taking the dog under his arm and going out into the woods to do the deed himself. meanwhile as it gets dark the butcher is cleaning up his shop when, to his horror, he sees the cat wandering outside, very much alive. the thought of the hunter killing his faithful companion fills him with remorse - - so he finds an empty sack, gets a sausage and tries to lure the poor kitty into the darkened shop .
on a cold new year' s eve, a little girl freezes barefoot outside. she' s sold none of her matches and is consequently afraid to return home, expecting a beating from her father. she looks into the window of the house she sits in front of, and imagines how nice it would be to celebrate with a family. then huddling in a corner, she begins to strike her matches one by one, at first to derive a little warmth, and then to keep seeing the beautiful images of warm fires, roast goose and christmas trees their light shows. she looks up and sees a shooting star, and recalls that her grandmother once told her that whenever a star streaks across the sky like that, a person goes to heaven. with the strike of another match, she sees her beloved grandmother, and lights all of her matches at once to keep her there. the next morning, new year' s day, passing people find her frozen body huddled against the building and surrounded by dead matches, smiling. they are filled with pity, but it doesn' t matter because the little match girl is now happy in heaven .
the next day the sequence repeats; cat wakes butcher, butcher is grouchy, baker wakes, starts morning apple pie routine. the dog is chasing the cat this morning, and he trees it. out comes the baker to shake the apple tree, which now has a cat in it. the cats collar is stuck on a branch, and all the shaking breaks the collar as cat and bell come down into the bakers apron. cat jumps out and goes on its merry way; bell stays with the apples and eventually goes straight into the apple pie that the woman places on the ground next to the butchers door .
the girl is overjoyed, but again the match goes out. angry and desperate in the cold alley, she lights all the remaining matches at once. the dream image returns: she falls into the loving arms of grandma, who takes her into the room with the christmas tree aglow, presents underneath, the candles on the tree glowing warmly to match her happiness. the next morning, back in the alley, the girl is slumped in the snow. from the shadows grandma approaches and wakes her; she glows with relief and happiness; and grandma carries her away on her shoulder - - leaving her tiny dead body behind in the snow as both of them vanish through the stone alley wall and disappear .
remy and emile plead the case for rats by illustrating the historical and scientific facts about the species and their interaction with humans .
roger allers: the structure of a short film allows one to experiment with techniques and telling stories that are more suited to a short story format. the
constraint
of a short format actually allows a kind of freedom that feature films cannot. what will happen with them? they may become part of dvds of features but i hope they will find their way to the large screen. of course that' s the most satisfying stage for a filmmaker .
within the world of animation, most experimentation occurs within short format productions, whether they are high - budgeted commercials, low - budgeted independent shorts or something in between. the growing number of short film festivals around the world attest to the vitality of these works, but there are few other venues for exhibition of them or even written reviews. as a result, distribution tends to be difficult and irregular. on a regular basis, animation world magazine will highlight some of the most interesting with short, descriptive overviews .
odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money as an adult film star. william, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. thinking he can help her find a normal life, he befriends her drug fueled bodyguard, angry jack, to get close to her .
disney' s retelling of the legend of john henry, the steel - driving man .
the only disney cartoon based on andersen' s works that led to the tragic ending .
the animation in this is beautiful and therefore one of the best things that disney has ever done since snow white and the seven dwarfs .
as the game winds down, the giant baby slams the checkerboard shut over and over until only the baby homunculus is left, a tiny green twin, which the giant baby gazes down at blankly. suddenly two huge arms enter the room from the mouth of the giant face in the wall. instead of fleshy hues, the arms are the color of the universe outside, covered in stars and nebulae. they grab the baby from under the cupola and pull it out of the turtle. its huge now, and trailing an umbilical cord, which stretches, stretches, stretches until it breaks - - and then theres nothing but a yellow sea, which fades through to actuality footage of a busy japanese intersection of the present day .
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roger allers: besides the obvious ethnic source of borodin' s music, the setting of czarist russia provided the
fantasy
element of fantastic architecture, and the social setting of the extremes of wealth and poverty to be the foil for the girl' s plight. and nothing says
cold
like a russian winter !
roger allers: the initial production took about a year including storyboarding animation, effects, and final color. for three years after completion, michael eisner had us trying different endings (none of which to my mind were satisfactory). this was done while i was directing a film at sony, and so was done
long distance
. at the end of three years, i was able to restore the original ending. we then added the credits, balanced the color and
voila !
- a 6 minute movie finished in five years !
the bottom line: if you liked grave of the fireflies, give this short a look .
one of my favorite disney shorts, and the whole reason i purchased the short films collection .
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the hogfather can. the hogfather gives presents. there' s no better present than a future .
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it' s christmas eve, and a little match girl is out on the cold streets trying to sell matchsticks to the people passing by. she doesn' t sell a single match, so she begins to use them to try to warm herself in the snowy cold. as she lights each matchstick, a new fantastic image appears in front of her: a warm stove, a table filled with holiday food delights, a sleigh ride to her grandmother' s house. as the matchsticks lose their flame, each image disappears until we see a slumped match girl cold in the snow, being greeted by her grandmother, who takes her away into the light and up to heaven .
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abraham lincoln, the 16th president of the united states, discovers vampires are planning to take over the united states. he makes it his mission to eliminate them .
except for the decision to have the story set in russia, i really loved this oscar nominated disney short .
barefoot poverty: in the freezing winter, and just a part of the reason that she froze to death .
adaptation of james jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at guadalcanal during the second world war .
original: toccata and fugue in d minor • nutcracker suite • the sorcerer' s apprentice • the rite of spring • the pastoral symphony • dance of the hours • night on bald mountain / ave maria fantasia 2000: symphony no. 5 • pines of rome • rhapsody in blue • piano concerto no. 2 • the carnival of the animals • pomp and circumstance • the firebird suite
as nell sweetzer tries to build a new life after the events of the first movie, the evil force that once possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan .
don hahn: the actors are really only characters that are created by the artists. how does one “direct” animation? it’s no different than directing theatre or live action. there is a story to be told and the director has to guide all the aspects of character, costume, set, effects, lighting and staging to the benefit of that story. the technique is different, but the director’s job is still to create a compelling story on the screen .
michael rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows this innovative and influential band to this day .
a road movie about a german man who went to the north east of brazil in the 1942 to sell aspirin .
in the' 40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the roncador - xingu expedition, which has a mission to tame the central brazil. the villas boas brothers: ... see full summary »
a documentary about two different searches conducted in the chilean atacama desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by pinochet' s regime .
chivalry may be the object, but giant robots are the tools in a gentlemans duel. © blur studio inc .
a sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the congo. terrier' s successful kill shot forces him into hiding. returning to the congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself .
the dragon warrior has to clash against the savage tai lung as china' s fate hangs in the balance: however, the dragon warrior mantle is supposedly mistaken to be bestowed upon an obese panda who is a tyro in martial arts .
week three of the underrated series and we get to the animation category. at least there shouldn' t be any debate…
the neighboring gardens of montague and capulet are at war, but the gnomes, gnomeo and juliet, are in love .
roger allers: its not really so different from live - action if you think of it this way. take a recent movie - mr and mrs smith - mr john smith was only a character, an idea (albeit a one - dimensional one). the director guided the writer, the actor (b. pitt), the stunt double, the cinematographer, the editing, the dubbing session, etc. , to make him come alive. in animation, the character' s voice is the performance of one actor and the physical performance is created by the other
actor with a pencil
- the animator. each performance is guided by the director as well as all the other functions: camera moves, editing, etc, that are present in live - action. we animation directors just never get to yell
cut !
refusing to believe her story about cave - dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits .
dracula, who operates a high - end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count' s teenaged daughter .
taylor jessen is a writer living in burbank, known worldwide as the city by the bay, or the city of lights, or rust never sleeps or lets give uncle harry rugburn .
dm: you know, it does take a lot of time and effort at the beginning. you’ve got five minutes [ the length of the short ]. we can' t make it seven minutes. that will push us into an 18 month schedule as opposed to a 12 month schedule. it' s a lot of planning. also, you can’t be “above” any spot on the film. i was a production manager, so i was production - managing. i was producing. i was being a production supervisor. if i had to move boards, i moved boards. if i had to pin boards, i pinned boards. it forces everybody to move a little out of their comfort zone. you know, you have kevin [ deters ] and stevie [ wermers - skelton ], lauren [ macmullan ], dean [ wellins ], all of them boarded their shorts. we had a few boarders that would come in to help, but they [ the directors ] pretty much boarded their entire short themselves. and they directed. there were some shots where dean animated. so did lauren. she animated one of her shots .
in ancient polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the demigod maui reaches moana' s island, she answers the ocean' s call to seek out the demigod to set things right .
the friendly but forgetful blue tang fish, dory, begins a search for her long - lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way .
ds: in recent years, talking to shorts directors like john kahrs [ paperman ] and patrick osborne [ feast ] among others, the idea that the studio supports and encourages anyone to submit ideas for the shorts program means a lot to the artists .
out of interstellar space two objects come into view - - a gigantic mythological turtle, with a yellow half - dome underneath and another brick half - done on top, and a tiny fighter jet leaving a long contrail behind it. ceremonial gong music plays as the jet snakes around the half - asleep turtle. under the turtles tail is the face of a stone grotesque, its mouth an expanding and contracting hole, and through this asshole of the universe the jet enters into the body of the turtle .
as the maestro sings a few tentative scales, the grabber goes about its work, opening a drawer in the dressing table and pulling out a series of brushes and powder boxes. needing to get down to the serious work of grooming the bird, the grabber politely but firmly shushes the singing bird by clamping its beak tight. then it opens one box of toiletries after another, running a brush through the maestros greasy hair, moving a small green oval grooming brush across his beak, passing another grooming brush over the back of his evening coat and dusting off his top hat .
a gentlemans duel, the new oscar - shortlisted short from the blur studios collective that brought us rockfish, gopher broke and in the rough, combines the sumptuous visual sophistication of nineteenth century landscape painting with the characterization typical of movies on the checklist of a saturday night kegger at the delta chi. out in a peaceful valley among gently rolling hills, it seems, is the country estate of a lovely woman of means. trees line the road to a massive palatial mansion, in front of which the butler has set a table for some light mid - morning refreshment. into this placid scenario enter two suitors, an english twit and a garrulous frenchman .
a series of superb animated short films, created by the brilliant minds at disney animated studios, and narrated by the executive staff .
a story that takes place over millions of years and is inspired by the beauty of tropical islands and the allure of ocean volcanoes .
bob parr (mr. incredible) is left to care for the kids while helen (elastigirl) is out saving the world .
in fact, one of the walt' s ways of encouraging such contributions was his
$ 5 a gag
program during development of snow white and the seven dwarfs. anyone in the studio - regardless which department you worked in - could submit proposals for a gag to be used in either the cartoon shorts or a feature film. for every gag used, that person would receive a $ 5 bonus. i can' t remember which disney biography i read, but one of them recounts how a lot of great gags were submitted by a gardener on the lot. even though he collected many $ 5 bills for his gags, he stayed a gardener. one animator noted that such a decision would seem odd, but this guy was
a really great gardener .
two interwoven stories. the first is a biography of anarchist sakae osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. the second centers around two 1960s' students researching osugi' s theories .
2 turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkeys off the thanksgiving menu for good .
the story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of london, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life .
huh, i never heard they adapted this one as well. i admit though, i think this story really got to me as a kid. the whole time i was expecting a happy ending, but yet in the end the poor girl died. it really shocked me at the time. holy crud, the main character can die? ! after all the sympathy the story built up for her no less? ! to an innocent 6 - year - old like me that was just a foreign concept. even now i find
the hero dies
stories to be hard to read / watch. still, i might take a look. i wonder why the setting was changed though? and the plot point about the abusive father?
the little matchgirl is a 2006 animated short film produced by walt disney animation studios , walt disney feature animation orlando , florida , walt disney feature animation paris , france and released by walt disney pictures , directed by roger allers and produced by don hahn . it is based on an original story by hans christian andersen entitled the little girl with the matches or the little match girl , published in 1846 . 
the little matchgirl is a 2006 animated short film produced by walt disney animation studios, walt disney feature animation orlando, florida, walt disney feature animation paris, france and released by walt disney pictures, directed by roger allers and produced by don hahn. it is based on an original story by hans christian andersen entitled the little girl with the matches or the little match girl, published in 1846.
the little matchgirl is a 2006 animated short film produced by walt disney animation studios, walt disney feature animation orlando, florida, walt disney feature animation paris, france and released by walt disney pictures, directed by roger allers and produced by don hahn. it is based on an original story by hans christian andersen entitled the little girl with the matches or the little match girl, published in 1846.