The Iron Giant: A Heartwarming Animated Film about Friendship and Self-Discovery, Monografías, Ensayos de Inglés

¡Descarga The Iron Giant: A Heartwarming Animated Film about Friendship and Self-Discovery y más Monografías, Ensayos en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! The Iron Giant This space is to talk about the animated film in the history of cinema. And to give less popular films a chance, we are going to turn around Disney and Pixar productions. As you can see? To inaugurate this issue, let's talk about a 1999 premiere, THE IRON GIANT, based on a very short book called THE IRON MAN by British writer Ted Hughes. THE IRON GIANT is the story of Hogarth Hughes, a boy who lives on the east coast of the United States in the 50s -just during the Sputnik space madness-, who befriends a colossal and noble robot from outer space whom a paranoid agent of the American military wants to destroy. The origin of the story comes from the sad tragedy that Ted Hughes suffered after the death of his wife, the poet Silvia Plath. As a way to comfort his young children, Hughes threw this novelist onto a metal giant that lands on Earth. On his side, the origins of the film must be thanked to the rock group The Who, especially Peter Townshend, who after the success of his rock-opera TOMMY, was interested in creating another musical. Hughes's book seemed like a good idea; the band created the musical and later a stop- motion short film. The short attracted so much attention from the Warner Bros. studio that it assigned the project to a certain Brad Bird, at that time one of the creative directors of LOS SIMPSONS, with experience as an animator in THE PLAGUE DOGS, but whom we would later see in command of THE INCREDIBLES, RATATOUILLE and that live-action roller coaster, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. With a script by Tim McCanlies (which we do not doubt Bird also used), the result was a film with a big heart, beautiful animation and a story that uses science fiction as a basis, but does not hesitate to talk about the relationship between friends and what is the human being. The animation evokes idealism, simplicity, nostalgia for more naive times (the Cold War in diapers), with a post-World War II optimism. Did someone say Norman Rockwell? The main character, Hogarth, has a keen interest in horror movies and matinee heroes. It is no surprise that his encounter with a 20-story tall metal Giant only causes him momentary fear. Soon, both find a faithful friend in the other: the boy finds someone who will listen to him and a reliable proof that there is something beyond that of the village life; while the giant finds a soul just as lonely as he is, and a peaceful refuge, an escape from whatever he is fleeing. One of the themes of the film is the horror of violence and the dangerous repercussions of using weapons, showing the sadness that is the loss of a life (a deer in the middle of the forest). But this does not mean that there is no lack of action. When the American troops led by a paranoid and irritating government agent finally find the Giant, he defends himself using the entire arsenal literally in his hands. … And this is where we fall into the other important theme of the film: who are we? If the Giant was created for war, is it possible for him to choose another path? What defines us: our origin or our actions? If this sounds too heavy for a film aimed at an audience primarily (but not exclusively) for children, but Brad Bird, who just 5 years later won his first Oscar for THE INCREDIBLES, endows the film with