tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post115854533990974327..comments2024-03-24T16:25:05.751-04:00Comments on Mayerson on Animation: The Road is Still RockyMark Mayersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1158593251510594852006-09-18T11:27:00.000-04:002006-09-18T11:27:00.000-04:00I agree. I think a big reason is the tendency to w...I agree. I think a big reason is the tendency to write films as a team instead of as a person. I don't think we've got enough egos either. I'm not talking about ego as in thinking and saying you're the best, but as in the confidence to do things your way. There's almost no-one who throws away the lessons taught by the Nine Old Men, or whatever. While writers like Charlie Kaufman or Paul Thomas Anderson do exactly that... throw away all Hollywood, and just make it about them.<BR/>Too many students are learning about story because of what animation has been, instead of what it could be. And no writers outside animation realize the potential and freedom animation could give them. The animation world is too split off of the film world.<BR/><BR/>Sadly enough, I think by doing this we're throwing away a major advantage of animation. Remember how Scott McCloud explained how with a cartoon style the audience "becomes" the character, while the audience observes with realistic images? Often, we're ABUSING that to tell dull/overly universal/overly simple stories. Instead of USING it, which is what is done in for example one of my favorite animated films, Takahata's Omohide poro poro. The film *could* have been done as a liveaction film, but the feeling you'd get out of it would be different. Just because it's much more about you than about Taeko than it would be in a liveaction version.Benjamin De Schrijverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04113326323094548928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1158551445391306882006-09-17T23:50:00.000-04:002006-09-17T23:50:00.000-04:00I completely agree with your comment about animati...I completely agree with your comment about animation writing. I just don't see anywhere near the frank originality or freshness that you see in Charlie Kaufman's or Wes Anderson's films. My supposition is that while Kaufman writes and the director works to get that his vision of that screenplay up on the screen in live action, the animation field's screenplays are made by committee and also are fraught with meddling from above.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the great post Mark!Cookedarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16516071831717511595noreply@blogger.com