Just saw it for the 3rd time today, & it just keeps getting better.
The background scenes are far more detailed than I thought at first showing.
Look on the roof scene, in the Glory Dats segment.
There’s a graffito on the wall. I believe it reads “Stan, Steve & Jacky K. Were Here!”
Those names ring a few bells, True Believers? If I saw correctly, that is so cool ! And a fine tribute to the Marvel Bullpen.
Kaitlyn
January 1, 2005, 3:29am
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Just saw it for the 3rd time today, & it just keeps getting better.
The background scenes are far more detailed than I thought at first showing.
Look on the roof scene, in the Glory Dats segment.
There’s a graffito on the wall. I believe it reads “Stan, Steve & Jacky K. Were Here!”
Those names ring a few bells, True Believers? If I saw correctly, that is so cool ! And a fine tribute to the Marvel Bullpen.
Heh. I love stuff like that. In Daredevil , the boxers Jack Murdock beats in his comback are Miller, Mack, and Bendis, and the guy he’s supposed to throw the fight against is Joe Quesada.
Heh. I love stuff like that. In Daredevil , the boxers Jack Murdock beats in his comback are Miller, Mack, and Bendis, and the guy he’s supposed to throw the fight against is Joe Quesada.
Kevin Smith’s (himself an ex-DD writer) bit part is as coroner Jack Kirby.
Skott
January 3, 2005, 7:14am
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From NRO’s interview with Craig Good, Pixar’s Senior Layout Artist.
GOOD: In interviews, Brad Bird (who wrote and directed The Incredibles) has said that part of his impulse for writing this story was his own doubts about being able to succeed in the movies and still be a good dad. So the very real dynamic and respect for family in the movie is no accident. As for the other counter counter-cultural questions, a maxim of filmmaking is that we are not entitled to the reactions of others. I think that movies are mirrors, and what people find in them usually says more about the viewer than the movie. So if you saw something in the movie, you’re entitled to it. Frankly, we’re often astounded at what people see in our cartoons once they hit the theatres.
As for Omnidroid, he’s actually from Explorers , which ILM did the special effects for (explaining the ending copyright attribute). Pixar gleaned some of its employees from ILM (Pixar was orignally a LucasFilm division), so it’s inclusion is a tribute more than anything else.
A rather explicit denial from Brad Bird today at IGN
IGN DVD: Ok, I gotcha. One of the things I liked was Bob’s frustration, when he talked about celebrating mediocrity, and Syndrome’s comment that if everyone is super, then no one is. Do you think people picked up on that point?
Bird: I think so. I think it got misinterpreted a few times. Some people said it was Ayn Rand or something like that, which is ridiculous. other people threw Nietzsche around, which I also find ridiculous. But I think the vast majority of people took it the way I intended. Some people said it was sort of a right-wing feeling, but I think that’s as silly of an analysis as saying The Iron Giant was left-wing. I’m definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
IGN DVD: How in the world can you see The Iron Giant as left-wing?
Bird: It was one New York paper, not the Times, I don’t remember which one, but a reviewer said the Iron Giant represented Russia and that my standpoint was that Russia was just a cuddly friend and we never should have had nuclear missiles against Russia, and he said that was a ridiculous thing, that Russia was dangerous. And I’m sitting here thinking “You think the Iron Giant is Russia? Where the hell did you get that?” But you can’t control how people interpret your stuff. Have you ever met someone and you say something nice to them and they make a face and are deeply offended? You just don’t know how people are going to take things. Ninty-eight percent of the people got that stuff the way I intended and two percent thought I was doing The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.
Good interview all around.
Excellent & informative update, Ray !
rjung
March 15, 2005, 1:51am
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Bird says something similar in the New York Post as well:
Q:“The Incredibles” generated quite a lot of ink on op-ed pages, where pundits debated the film’s thesis that mediocrity is celebrated in America and that people with special abilities were being discouraged from being quite so special. Were you surprised?
A:The idea that “The Incredibles,” a mainstream animated feature, was thought of as provocative was wonderful to me. I was very gratified, though I thought some of the analysis was really kind of goofy.
Q:Such as?
A:Some pieces compared the viewpoint to the objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. I thought that was silly and the writers were humorless. I was into Rand for about six months when I was 20, but you outgrow that narrow point of view. Some compromise is necessary in life.
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Q:So how would you describe yourself politically?
A:Somewhere in the middle. Both the extreme left and the extreme right end up eating their own tail, defeating the very objectives that they state. My previous film, “The Iron Giant,” was seen wrongly as a left-wing film and some people have misconstrued “The Incredibles” as having a right-wing agenda. Both those analyses are very limited.