I did talk to women to see what that perspective was, and ultimately found out it’s the same kind of perspective as mine and my dad’s perspective. MA: I’m a parent, I have four children – a girl and three boys, just like Fergus does in the movie – so what I loved about it was the parent-child relationship, whether it’s a mother and daughter, or a father and daughter, or a mother and son.Īny combination of that relationship is highly relatable, because we’ve all been teenagers, and fought with our parents and fought against what the world wants us to be, versus “I don’t even know who I am yet.” So, that is incredibly, incredibly powerful stuff, and that’s what I latched onto. One thing that I brought on board was objectivity being on the outside of it, I could just come in and clear the table away. Looking at Brenda’s story, I had a lot of pieces on the table, and arranging them to make it super-entertaining, and super-appealing, and full of all that heart, that’s when it becomes alchemy. When Pixar asked me to jump on board, they said, “Here’s a movie, it’s coming out in 18 months and it’s not at the level we would expect at this moment how’re you going to get it there?”
Mark Andrews: Story is the most difficult thing there is, and people have asked me about the pressure of making this movie, and this being the studio’s 13th film: how lucky do you feel? There’s been hit after hit after hit, and do you worry about making a hit? I’m not, I’m just worried about getting that story right, and it’s been worked on for a while.
It’s been this evolution, throughout, and Mark and Brenda both worked hard to enthuse it with their passion throughout, and they both have that sort of Scottish history and background.
We did the most we could to make it the best we could, but we found answers by making little mistakes along the way. We put it through its paces, and look at it every three or four months as a whole movie and ask, “Is it working?” and the answer is always “No.” We have to make it work a little at a time, and we say that Pixar films are never finished, they’re just released. If you look at various versions of this film, during Brenda’s time, during Mark’s time – all of those are completely different.Įven Mark’s first crack at this movie is not what you’ll see on the screen. In every one of our films, from the beginning of the process to the end, the core idea may stay the same, but the execution of it is dramatically different. Story is – Mark calls it alchemy, I call it messy. We really just started with that story idea. It had these elements of magic, a little bit of magic in it, a lot of adventure and action and heart and humour, and it didn’t feel like it was just one thing. That was the kernel of an idea that then became developed to the point where Mark and Brenda and I all went on a research trip and then fleshed out what this world could become.
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