Hi everybody,
I post today my final transcription of the Vegas critic interview of Andrew Stanton :
The transcription here :
Jeffrey K. Howard : We are all in guys ? Everything is gone cool. Everything is gone Great
Andrew Stanton : How you gone ?
JKH : I’m gone good, good to see you. I can’t say, It spend ?
AS : Five years
JKH : Finding Nemo
AS : Long time
JKH : About thirty pounds for me
AS : AhAhAh
JKH : thirty-five
AS : But ten for me
JKH : And, no, use to look, is young
AS : It’s the theoring, that’s it
JKH : It’s the jeez, right ? you’re nordic, right ? You come from scandinavia or somewhere.
So watching Wall-e last night and I love how movies are pitched, you know, cause I always think in my mind, you know, how cause there is a process where movies begin is : you have to go in a pitched story, and your pitch, obviously was : “What if man can have to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn off the robot”. Was it something that simple ?
AS : Yeah, unfortunately “we didn’t have” to pitch anybody, because the time we came up with just that, can see, was in ninety-four, at a lunch that John Lasseter and “Jonathan Pitturg” were having. So, when I had say “I want to do this film”, or come up with other idea for that, can see, John was there already, so it was an easy thing for us to push forward.
JKH : Now, tell me to the story pitching process of Pixar . Is it…You’re such a… I’m just saying you’re a level now, you can walk in the Lasseter’s office when he is having lunch and just call “Hi John, I’ve got the idea, here it is, you know, listen to me” or is it a long process ?
AS : No, it’s actually the power of our first pitch and to be honest it’s been like that in before we were big, I mean that’s a nice thing we’ve always been a sort of informal family, so the boss in the officine say : “John, come on, you know, this is what I want to do, what do you think of this ?”, it’s always been like that.
JKH : So, the challenge for Wall-e, I would assume, is you have a robot try to convainc human emotions and I was watching, you know, carefully, to see where that will come throught. I guess it’s the eyes, right ?
AS : You know, they come from a lot of places but the face was definitely a huge key factor. Hum, I learnd a lot by watching John’s short “Lexar junior” which came on the middle eighties just before I came to work there and I was amazed how much, just because the way the lamp was designed, you… The minute that move… You wanted to throw a character on it, you are compel to do that. So I did realise that, for a robot,to cary the all movie it should be designed in a way that you really want to see a character in it. And I was at a Baseball game, I think it was in 2003, and I was trying to think about the design of this character and somebody handed me the binoculars cause we had such a bad sit. And I missed the all leaning by turning the binoculars around in sort of making them sad, happy and stun. I realise. There is an entire character and soul right there in a pair of binoculars and that’s, that was really the key. So much more, that sadness, the sound you getting from Ben Burts, doing the sound design and the amazing animation that so saddled and masterful by the animators of Pixar.
2 : 37 – JKH : And in the heart of Wall-e, it’s a love story.
AS : Yeah, at a friend of Wall-e, to me that was the story. The rest of it is very much even now it’s a vast backdrop and goes over all, all over the place. It’s really just a support. This relationship between this two characters.
JKH : I can’t wait to get home and get the DVD because his home is my favourite part of the movie. I mean I saw the T-rex of from Toy Story and…
AS : Oh ! You’re good !
JKH : Oh I did it, all life, I scan things quickly, just see, cause I know you guys have a lot of things in there.
AS : Because there’re in there.
JKH : And the jokes for people of my age or the generation next cause there is a Rubik’s cube and a spork and all of this stuff.
3 : 16 – AS : Yeah, just showing my age.
JKH : That’s almost just. You must have worked a long time for getting a lot to put in this little piece.
AS : Yeah, I mean there is a great art book where you can see more the details cause there is so much stuff in there and it’s… Some of them are just in the shadows that we’ll never know, but we made it all.
3 : 29 – JKH : So Wall-e only has one film and “(…the boot)”, (…)and I cry now a lot. That’s not my favourite and it never has been. But it works for the movie.
AS : Wall-e just has bad taste in musicals. I mean, it’s… it’s… I can’t choose Wall-e likes.
JKH : Could he find a Terminator copy somewhere or something just… you know…
AS : I know it’s a random choice, but it actually made a lot of sense to me. First, it was for a static reason. I just had a juxtaposition. But the content and the song make so much sens and when I watched parts of the movie and I got the idea about how to hold hands to convey how you feel about somebody. It was… I just had to use it.
4 : 07 – JKH : So much Sci-fi films, I saw a “sail running”, I saw a “sonny green”, not for the reasons you think. But this movie has an environment message like finding Nemo
AS : Well the funny thing is that, both in Nemo and both in Wall-e, that stuff didn’t have a message. I was just going with logic that to push the relationship in the story. So came throught the back door. I mean I’m not trying to say “I’m not supporting this”. The last thing I have in to choose is a pretty thing like that. What I wanted to do was have the last guy or the last robot on earth and everybody have to live for some reason and it was very getable is… for visualy without much explanation is leader. Everybody gets all that’s in the right place of any age and we’ve got to move it all the way.
JKH : Oh…When we were kids remember pitchin. I’d love to throw things away.
4 : 57 – AS : I tried to explain to people, I said “Look, there was a reason in the seventies ” It was told on the TV every ten minutes not to leader or (…) in America we cry. You know it was just, it was just like this.
JKH : Remember the things we eat, you know and and yout throw stuff and things in the trash.
AS : There was just everywhere we showing our brain, so, to me, it’s a very kid like getable. Sort of concede. So I just want to get backward from now. That’s the reason why is there trash everywhere. And well, we just buy too much.
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