The Making of Fantastic Mr Fox: The Making of the Motion Picture

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FANTASTIC MR. FOX – Wes Anderson's Animated Acceptance Speech. FoxSearchlight. January 13, 2010. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010 . Retrieved May 17, 2011– via YouTube. More was written about the fact that these guys were walking around India with Vuitton bags than practically anything else in the whole film," Anderson complains. "I don't think I've made a film where I've had a political agenda that I was trying to get across or anything like that. I want to create a certain sort of world that doesn't quite exist, to imagine something new. With Darjeeling, our goal was to make as personal a story as we could, and it's filled with things that are connected with our lives and experiences and people close to us." Anderson's stories are full of adults who act like children and children who act like adults – at the moment he's somewhere between the two Criterion then includes the wonderful 61-minute BBC documentary Fantastic Mr. Dahl. Through interviews with surviving family members it offers a rather extensive portrayal of the author and the many ups and downs throughout his life. It covers his loves and marriages, and the tragedies that occurred throughout his life, the death of his daughter Olivia from measles being the most traumatic from the sounds of it. It looks at his work and the various influences, and how he wrote to appeal to children. It’s a rather thorough and engaging documentary, filled with quite a few surprises and doses of humour (like an archival interview with the author where he recalls his first sex-ed class.) A rather wonderful inclusion on Criterion’s part.

But first a caveat:I love the [[ASIN:B003DNN0L2 Fantastic Mr. Fox]] movie and I've seen it probably more than a dozen times. Love blinds, they say.

A worthwhile compendium of the creation of a gorgeous film and an inspiring companion piece. Auteur director Wes Anderson is not an animator, but proves that an outsider can work within the form to spectacular results. I have always dreamed of doing this, and Mr. Fox’s existence and production give me hope of that personal fulfillment in one of my possible futures as a writer/director. This book a treasure trove of knowledge on stop motion animation. It shows much of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the final film, how each and every character is modeled, the making of the sets - the farmhouse, the foxes' tree burrow, the town square, how the fire in the street scene is done and many more. In style and sensibility, this is really a Wes Anderson film, with little Dahl. It's missing the darker elements that characterize Dahl's books. There you find the whiff of something nasty: child abuse, violence, misogyny. Gone, too, is any sense of danger. Even the farmers, who are made to look a touch evil, don't seem capable of it. We never feel the tension of watching the Fox family facing real peril. The film certainly has Americanized Dahl's story, and I don't mean the fact that the good animals have American accents and the baddies have British ones. It offers yet another celebration of difference and a lesson on the importance of being yourself. But it does leave you thinking: isn't it time that children's films put children first? [34] Two human years (12 fox years) later, the Foxes and their son Ash are living in a hole. Mr. Fox, now a newspaper columnist, moves the family into a better home inside a tree, ignoring the warnings of his lawyer Clive Badger about how dangerous the area is for foxes due to its proximity to facilities run by three farmers: Walt Boggis, Nate Bunce, and Frank Bean.

a b Gritten, David (November 17, 2007). "The Darjeeling Limited: Who needs a film set in LA when you have a speeding train in India?". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on November 18, 2007 . Retrieved November 22, 2007. The group encounters Badger and many other local animal residents whose homes the farmers have also destroyed. As the animals begin fearing starvation, Mr. Fox calls them together and leads them on a digging expedition to tunnel to the three farms, stealing all of their prized goods. While the animals feast, Ash and Kristofferson begin to reconcile after Kristofferson defends Ash from Beaver's son.

Century Fox Home Entertainment released the DVD and Blu-ray on March 23, 2010. [23] The Criterion Collection released the film on Blu-ray and DVD on February 18, 2014. [24] Wes had a very clear idea of what he wanted, and I think he made us challenge all our preconceptions about what stop-motion puppets are,” says Peter Saunders. “I think the fact that he hadn't worked a great deal in stop motion pushed us out of our comfort zone, which forced us to try new ideas, new techniques, and new materials.” Anderson himself seems pretty surprised he's made the film. He's wanted to do it for a good 10 years, he says, since it was the first book he remembers ever owning. "I grew up loving it and somewhere along the way I thought this one should be mine." But he imagined it as a side project he could oversee while making another movie. "I thought I'd do the script and record the actors and design it, then other people would just … animate it. And they'd send it to me and I'd say 'good' and maybe tinker with it a bit. But that's not the way it ended up happening at all. " Fantastic Mr. Fox". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on January 30, 2017 . Retrieved March 5, 2021. Biancolli, Amy. "A fantastic Mr. Fox quirks and all". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012 . Retrieved September 3, 2011.