Four animated films to look for this Oscar season: 'Ne Zha,' 'Missing Link,' 'Weathering With You' and 'Swallows of Kabul.'
Massive studio releases aren’t the only notable films eligible for the animated feature Oscar — a range of very different contenders illustrate just how varied the field is.“Ne Zha” is a crazy, gorgeously animated, epic adventure; a modern take on a Chinese legend by a first-time feature director who goes by the name Dumpling. It’s the second-highest-grossing non-English film worldwide and China’s official submission for the international feature Oscar.
“The real driving force is the individual’s resistance to fate,” says Jiaozi. “Since hope brings people power and strength, my intention was to use slapstick action-comedy to convey this idea to the audience in a more pleasant manner.” The “magical girl” is a longstanding trope in Japanese pop culture, but in the hands of auteur Makoto Shinkai , “Weathering With You” contains unexpected themes and turns.
“The rain-related disasters that occur frequently connected to my motivation of wanting to depict weather. International politics that are leaning toward nationalism, making people pretend not to see the sacrifice of others. Other inspirations came from Japanese folk tales and the Shinto religion. Also, rebelling against various criticisms that came from ‘Your Name’s’ success — for example, that I shouldn’t be using disaster for entertainment — was also a driving force in making this film.
“Traditionally, stop-motion films tend to feel enclosed and that’s just the nature of the medium. You’re limited to the size of your set, where the camera can fit and also the size of the puppets, obviously,” says Butler. “In the past, it negated stories of a grander scale. Technical innovations and advancements we’ve fully embraced at the studio have enabled us to paint on a bigger canvas.
“I think I said to the crew, ‘What we’re going for here is if David Lean made ‘Around the World in 80 Days,’ starring Laurel and Hardy.”Atiq finds he increasingly doesn’t fit into the Taliban’s vision of Afghan society in “The Swallows of Kabul.”
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