![]() ![]() There’s always shit, just sometimes you get a little more bread with yours. Making movies is eating a sandwich of shit. In the last two months, they said no to five of my projects. That’s the real enemy.” Referencing studio speech, he noted: “I think when somebody calls stories ‘content,’ when somebody says ‘pipeline,’ they’re using sewage language.”ĭel Toro, quite a potty mouth himself, warned students that they will have to deal with a film industry “that is geared toward grinding out shit and destroying your art.” He noted that he still gets rejected, regularly, by the studios. Completely, 100 percent natural, organic. “When people say they’re scared of AI, I say don’t be afraid of any intelligence be afraid of stupidity. The enemy, del Toro told the audience of mainly animation students, was not artificial intelligence, but good old corporate stupidity. And stop-motion as true handmade, hand-carved cinema.” particularly now, we need things that look like they were made by humans to recuperate the human spirit. So I said: Let’s make things inefficient. ![]() In real life, we do it in eight and we usually kind of fuck it up. If they sit and grab a glass of water, they do it in four movements. “In animation, everyone is very efficient. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”įor Pinocchio, del Toro said he tried to make the style more lifelike by adding “unnecessary, inefficient gestures” of movement that exist in reality but rarely in animation. I would love to see real life in animation. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think is emotional pornography. I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose - oh, I hate that shit. The 58-year-old filmmaker spent a good portion of his Annecy master class deriding what he sees as destructive tendencies in much commercial animation where characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior. I think that we can Trojan-horse a lot of good shit into the animation world.” “Animation to me is the purest form of art, and it’s been kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. “The three hits of Spider-Verse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mario are moving things, allowing a little more latitude, but there are still big fights to be had,” he said. He also cited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which premiered at Annecy and hits theaters in August. Movie, could provide a window for the production of more adventurous and “rule-breaking” films in the genre. “I think stop-motion can be intravenous, it can go straight to your emotions in a way that no other medium can.”ĭel Toro said the recent string of animated box office hits, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Super Mario Bros. “I believe you can make an adult fantasy drama with stop-motion and move people emotionally,” said del Toro. ![]() 'Bird Box Barcelona' Trailer: New Beasts, Terrors Revealed in Sandra Bullock Movie Spinoff Del Toro, who will produce as well as direct The Buried Giant, and is co-writing the script with Matilda the Musical writer Dennis Kelly, plans to shoot the film using the same stop-motion technique he used on Pinocchio. The book follows an elderly British couple living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no one can retain their long-term memories. That’s the plan.”ĭel Toro, who said he first started making “what I thought was animation” when he was 8 years old using his father’s Super 8 camera, is following up his Oscar-nominated Pinocchio with another animated feature for Netflix: an adaptation of The Buried Giant, based on the grown-up fantasy novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. “After that, I only want to do animation. “There are a couple more live-action movies I want to do but not many,” the Pinocchio and Shape of Water director told the audience at the Annecy animation festival on Tuesday. And, if Guillermo del Toro has his way, it will be his last. ![]()
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