“Minions: The Rise of Gru” may be filled with familiar, uh, faces of the lovable yellow creatures, but it transports them back to the 1970s, when Gru (still voiced by Steve Carell) was a supervilli…
” may be filled with familiar, uh, faces of the lovable yellow creatures, but it transports them back to the 1970s, when Gru was a supervillian in training and the Minions were looking to fit into his burgeoning world.and Illumination was directed by Kyle Balda, himself a veteran of the world of the Minions and a child of the ’70s.
“And Jackie Chan is just brilliant at bringing the acting and the comedy into the action,” Balda says. “One of the clearest winks [to kung fu films] I would say, is more to Stephen Chow and things like ‘Shaolin Soccer’ and ‘Kung Fu Hustle,’ which you can really see with Master Chow. Her character is really grounded in that kind of comedy. There’s also a little bit of ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ too.
Balda says, “Brad Abelson, who was the co-director on the film, did a lot of research in terms of comedy punch-up and that sort of thing to find references that would really connect with people of our generation.” And although San Francisco itself has a timeless look, “there’s also a lot of macrame in Gru’s mom’s house and an owl [decoration]” that Balda’s mom had in their house.
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