The animated pair’s second outing won an Oscar and changed claymation cinema forever. The curator of a new exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, along with the film’s producer and co-writer, discuss its conception, production and enduring appeal
We premiered at the Venice film festival, right before a big movie by this Iranian director, called Manhattan by Numbers, to which we were very much second fiddle. The Wrong Trousers got a standing ovation. I said: “Blimey, Nick this means it’s pretty special.
” Then Manhattan By Numbers played and within about 40 minutes, probably about a third of them had walked out. We were sitting next to the director in the balcony. I thought: “God, we’ve gotta stay and then congratulate this guy on his wonderful work.” I spent most of the time thinking: “What the hell am I gonna say?”
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