{"id":20817,"date":"2018-08-12T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20817"},"modified":"2018-08-10T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:35:28","slug":"35-things-we-learned-from-the-iron-giant-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20817","title":{"rendered":"35 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE \u2018IRON GIANT\u2019 COMMENTARY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Film School Rejects presents\u00a035 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE IRON GIANT<\/em> COMMENTARY<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

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One of the big questions Bird and Lynch faced was in how much they should reveal of the Giant early on. They wanted to keep the Giant interesting and grab the audience\u2019s attention without giving away too much too early. This seems to always be a concern for filmmakers creating a story that involves an otherworldly creature. Some director\u2019s just don\u2019t even bother with subtlety.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As Bird and Markowski mention, the first time Hogarth runs into the Iron Giant is the most robotic the Giant is in the entire film. They wanted to gradually show the Giant picking up Hogarth\u2019s mannerisms and acting more and more human as the story progressed. As mentioned later on in the scene when Hogarth confronts and talk to the Giant for the first time, the Giant learns these humanistic skills very quickly going from \u201cpet to friend to hero\u201d as Markowski says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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One of the things Bird is very proud of in The Iron Giant is how real his characters feel. He mentions the audience reacting audibly when Hogarth gets hit in the face with a branch and how that\u2019s a very difficult thing to pull from the audience when you\u2019re dealing with animated characters. Audiences are so used to Wile Coyote falling off cliffs they\u2019ve become accustomed to animated characters being more malleable than real people. \u201cIf you defy gravity and later on need to feel danger in the film, you have a really hard time convincing the audience how to do that,\u201d says Bird.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film School Rejects presents\u00a035 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE IRON GIANT COMMENTARY\u00a0.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… One of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[58,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817","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=20817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20818,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions\/20818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}