10 Towering Facts About The Iron Giant<\/strong><\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n5. THE TITLE CHARACTER WAS COMPUTER GENERATED.<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span>Despite being considered one of America\u2019s last great traditionally animated films, The Iron Giant<\/em>\u2019s <\/i>title character was created entirely with a computer. The creators took careful steps to make sure the Giant blended in seamlessly with the hand-drawn world. They even went so far as to develop a computer program to make the character\u2019s lines wobble slightly, producing a crude, hand-drawn effect. <\/span><\/p>\n6. IT FEATURES A PRE-FAST AND FURIOUS<\/em> VIN DIESEL.<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span>Before making a name for himself as an action star, Vin Diesel provided his voice to the towering robot in The Iron Giant<\/em>. <\/i>Not counting groans and grunts, the Giant utters a grand total of 53 words in the entire film. When Diesel returned to feature voice acting 15 years later for Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>, he played Groot, a character whose vocabulary is even more severely limited. <\/span><\/p>\n7. THE DESIGN WAS INSPIRED BY THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL.<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span>The Iron Giant<\/em> takes place in an idyllic Maine town in the 1950s\u2014a perfect contrast to the themes of McCarthy-era paranoia the film explores. To give the setting more of a wholesome, Americana look, the creators drew inspiration from the art of Edward Hopper, N.C. Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell. Even the fictional town\u2019s name\u2014Rockwell\u2014is a nod to the iconic American artist. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michele Debczak and Mental_Floss present 10 Towering Facts About The Iron Giant. Here are three of my favorites… 5. THE TITLE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15381,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380\/revisions\/15381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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