The creators of the hit “Chicken Run” return ahora con una de piratas, mezclando la tradicional técnica “claymation” con el 3D.
¡Peter Lord, codirector de “Chicken Run” (2000), estrena “The Pirates! “Band of Misfits”, su primera película en 12 años, un proyecto en el que vuelve a crear magia a partir de personajes de arcilla, aunque esta vez ayudado por la tecnología 3D.
The film narrates with a tone comical attempts of a rogue by defeating their rivals for the prize for the Pirate of the Year, a mission that leads to the protagonist and his henchmen to undertake a trip from the beaches of Blood Island to the cloudy streets of victorian London.
All this is possible thanks to “claymation,” the art of creating frame-by-frame animation using characters molded from materials such as plasticine, clay, or silicone.
“I hope that this art will always have its public,” said Lord. Perhaps the psychologists could explain it, but there is something in that technique that makes it charming.
Something similar happens with “The Muppets”. Are rag dolls with eyes, but if the illusion is well-made, you think that they are alive. And in a sense beautiful, he added.
¡Los piratas! “Band of Misfits” es la última producción del estudio Aardman, responsable de títulos como “Chicken Run” o la serie de aventuras de “Wallace and Gromit”, dos de los personajes más populares de la animación contemporánea, creados por Nick Park, David Sproxton y el propio Lord.
The british study has been nominated nine times for the Oscar, and has won four of them.
En la versión original de “The Pirates! En “Band of Misfits” aparecen las voces de Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Salma Hayek, David Tennant e Imelda Staunton, entre otros.
“Es esencial dar con las voces adecuadas”, confesó Lord. Hugh Grant es conocido en el Reino Unido como una gran estrella de la comedia romántica, con énfasis en lo de romántica y menos en lo de comedia. Y para mí es un cómico genial”, explicó.
Lord, 59 years old, a candidate for an Oscar twice for his animated shorts “Adam” (1992) and “Wat's Pig” (1996), he has based his career mostly in his role of producer, and his resume includes “Flushed Away” (2006) and “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of The Were-Rabbit” (2005).
“I think we have done a movie honest,” said the director of Bristol, which has taken all these years to get back behind the camera because of a couple of projects not found financing.
The story of his new film is based on a series of books of british novelist Gideon Defoe, whose “sense of the comedy” attracted irretrievably Lord.
“The spirit of the books is an exaltation of joy and happiness, and to keep that feeling on the big screen was a big challenge,” said the filmmaker, who has had a budget of close to $60 million for a shoot that lasted more than three years.
Lord cree que, a pesar de la proliferación de películas relacionadas con los piratas en los últimos años, especialmente debido al éxito de la saga “Pirates of the Caribbean”, el público no se ha cansado del género.
“Como hicieron esas cintas, nos referimos a obras de los años 50; nos fijamos en los filibusteros de aquella edad de oro y en filmes como ‘Treasure Island’.
This fascination seems to still be alive, and we hope to take advantage of that constant interest,” he mused.
Los Angeles / EFE 04/2012
