20201108 Ice Age (2002)

 Sunday, 08 November

 

#Today I wanna write about a cartoon movie, Ice Age. I knew this movie when I still in university. I got a DVD free of this cartoon in the Chinese version. I didn't understand what they talking about. 😅😅😅

Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Chris Wedge and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha from a story by Michael J. Wilson. Produced by Blue Sky Studios as its first feature film, it was released by 20th Century Fox on March 15, 2002. The film features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Denis Leary. Set during the days of the ice age, the film centers around three main characters - Manny (Romano), a no-nonsense woolly mammoth; Sid (Leguizamo), a loudmouthed ground sloth; and Diego (Leary), a sardonic saber-tooth tiger - who come across a human baby and work together to return it to its tribe. Additionally, the film occasionally follows Scrat, a speechless "saber-toothed squirrel" voiced by Wedge who is perpetually searching for a place in the ground to bury his acorn.

Ice Age was originally intended as a 2D animated film developed by Fox Animation Studios, but eventually became the first full-length animated film for the newly-reformed Blue Sky, which had been reshaped from a VFX house to a computer animation studio. Focus shifted from making an action-adventure drama film to a more comedy-oriented one, and several writers, such as Michael Berg and Peter Ackerman, were brought on to bring out a wittier tone.

Upon release, Ice Age received mostly positive reviews and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, losing to Spirited Away. It was a box office success and grossed over $383 million, starting the Ice Age franchise, being followed by four sequels: Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. Two-holiday specials were also released: 2011's Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (taking place between Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Continental Drift) and 2016's Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (taking place between Continental Drift and Collision Course). Seven Ice Age short films were also released between 2002 and 2016.

A Cronopio known as Scrat attempts to find a place to store his acorn for the winter. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large crack to form in the ice that extends for miles before setting off a large avalanche which nearly crushes him. He barely escapes but finds himself getting stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals migrating south in order to escape the forthcoming ice age. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth, is left behind by his family and decides to move on by himself, but is attacked by two Brontotheres after ruining their meal and making them angry. Sid is soon rescued by Manny, a cynical woolly mammoth heading north, who fights the rhinos off and continues on his path. Sid joins Manny, not wanting to be alone and unprotected. Manny is annoyed by Sid's outgoing demeanor and wishes to migrate on his own, but Sid nonetheless continues to follow Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pack, wants revenge on a neanderthal tribe for killing half of his pack by eating the chief's infant son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the neanderthal camp, during which Roshan's mother flees with her son. Cornered by Soto’s lieutenant, Diego, she leaps down the waterfall with Roshan. As punishment for his failure to retrieve Roshan, Diego is sent to find and retrieve him while the rest of the pack waits for him at a mountain known as Half-Peak. If he fails, he will be killed in Roshan’s place.

Later, Sid and Manny encounter the mother struggling out of the lake, dying from her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to entrust Roshan to Manny before she dies and disappears into the water. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return the baby, but when they reach the neanderthal settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the neanderthals. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to Half-Peak where his pack is waiting to ambush them.

After encountering several misadventures on their way, the group reaches a cave with several cave paintings. There, Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the neanderthal hunters, in which they slaughtered his family, consisting of his mate and child, leaving Manny a depressed loner. Later, the group almost reaches their destination, Half-Peak, only to encounter a forming river of lava. Manny and Sid, along with Roshan, make it across safely, but Diego ends up hanging on a cliff, about to fall into the lava. Manny saves him, narrowly missing certain death by falling into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps towards Diego, who starts to have a change of heart about his mission.

The next day, the herd approaches the ambush, causing Diego, now full of respect for Manny for saving his life to change his mind and confess to Manny and Sid about the ambush. As the pair turn hostile towards him, Diego pleads for their trust and tries to foil the attack. The herd battles Soto's pack, but despite their efforts, Soto and his associates manage to corner Manny. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego sacrifices himself by jumping in the way and is injured as a result. Manny then knocks a distracted Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall onto Soto, impaling and instantly killing him. Horrified, the rest of the pack retreat. Manny and Sid mourn for Diego's injury, which they believe is fatal, and continue their journey without him. The two manage to successfully return Roshan to his tribe, and to their surprise, Diego manages to rejoin them, in time to see Roshan leave. The group then begins to head off to warmer climates.

20,000 years later, Scrat, frozen in a block of ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. As the ice slowly melts, an acorn that was also frozen in the same ice block is washed away. Scrat then finds a coconut and tries to stomp it into the ground, only to accidentally trigger a volcanic eruption.

Ice Age was originally pitched to 20th Century Fox in 1997 by producer Lori Forte. The film, originally envisioned as a traditionally animated movie with an action-oriented comedy-drama tone, was intended to be developed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Fox Animation Studios. Around the same time, Blue Sky Studios, a small visual effects studio in White Plains, New York was bought out by Fox and reshaped into a full-fledged CG animation film studio. In light of this, Fox Animation head Chris Meledandri and executive producer Steve Bannerman approached Forte with the proposition of developing the film as a computer-animated movie, which Forte realized was "basically a no-brainer," according to her. Michael J. Wilson, who had written and developed the film's original story treatments in conjunction with Forte, wrote the first draft for the script, and Chris Wedge, a co-founder of Blue Sky, was brought on to the project as the director in late 1998. Fox also opted for the movie to take a more comedy-oriented direction (albeit while still maintaining some dramatic elements), and brought writer Michael Berg to help emphasize a funnier tone. After being hired, Berg reportedly told the studio that he couldn't write a kid's film, to which the studio responded, "Great! Just write a good story."

Story development began in the spring of 1999, and official production on the film began in June 2000, one week after the closure of Fox Animation Studios. 150 employees were hired to work on the film, and a budget of $58 million was granted by Fox. Peter Ackerman was hired as a third writer for the film and collaborated extensively with Berg for three years before the two eventually moved on from the project. Jon Vitti and Mike Reiss, both former writers for The Simpsons, were added later on after Berg and Ackerman left to further polish the script.

For research, the film's development team took several trips to the Museum of Natural History early on in production in order to make sure that the film authentically felt like the Ice Age. Ultimately, the team translated the information that they had compiled in their research by stylizing it in order to fit with the film's story. A team of 32 animators went out and did research to figure out the movements of different animals; for instance, for the movement of Scrat, animators visited a park and observed local squirrels, taking note of their "twitchy" way of moving.

Michael J. Wilson stated on his blog that his daughter Flora came up with the idea for an animal that was a mixture of both squirrel and rat, naming it Scrat and that the animal was obsessed with pursuing his acorn. The plan to have Scrat talk was quickly dropped, as he worked better as a silent character for comedic effect. The name 'Scrat' is a combination of the words 'squirrel' and 'rat', as Scrat has characteristics of both species; Wedge has also called him "saber-toothed squirrel." Scrat's opening adventure was inserted because, without it, the first real snow and ice sequence wouldn't take place until about 37 minutes into the film. This was the only role intended for Scrat, but he proved to be such a popular character with test audiences that he was given more scenes. The filmmakers made it so that many of the scenes with Scrat appear directly after dramatic moments in the film.

In a 2012 interview with Jay Leno, Denis Leary revealed that his character, Diego the sabertooth, originally died near the end of the film. However, it was reported that kids in the test audience burst into tears when his death was shown. Leary himself warned the producers that something like this would happen. When it was proven true, the scene was re-written to ensure Diego survived.

Originally, Sid the Sloth was supposed to be a con-artist and a hustler, and there was even a finished scene of the character conning some aardvark kids. His character was later changed to a talkative-clumsy sloth because the team felt the audience would have hated him. There was also an alternate scene of Sid in the hot tub with the ladies which shows him saying to them "Let's jump in the gene pool and see what happens." One of the female sloths then kicks him in the groin. This was cut because it was not suitable for children and may have gotten the film a PG-13 rating. Other innuendos with Sid were also cut from the film. Sid was also supposed to have a female sloth named Sylvia (voiced by Kristen Johnston) chasing after him, whom he despised and kept ditching. All the removed scenes can be seen on the DVD.

The characters and environments in the Ice Age were modeled and animated using WaveFront's Maya animation software. Rendering was completed using CGI Studio, an in-house ray-tracing program being developed since Blue Sky's formation in 1987 and previously used for Wedge's 1998 short film, Bunny. While Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, released three months before Ice Age, became the first computer-animated film to make use of ray tracing technology, Ice Age would have received the distinction had it been released at the time Blue Sky began work on the movie.

In order to keep the film at a more exciting pace, the development team took certain liberties with Sid in terms of realism; although real-life ground sloths were slow-moving and rigid, Sid was given a fast movement speed in certain scenes, as well as a more flexible range of motions. Conversely, the character’s arm movements were more restricted in order to retain a sense of laziness true to the nature of sloths. Manny was a particularly difficult character to animate due to his unique attributes as a mammoth, such as his long fur and massive trunks that covered up his face. Dealing with a creature which had seldom appeared in animation at the time, the team needed to figure out how Manny would realistically move with character designer Pete DeSeve explaining that “a wooly mammoth isn’t simply an elephant with long fur”. According to co-director Carlos Saldanha, Diego was one of the most complexly animated characters in the movie, with some scenes showing off his high movement speed as a saber-toothed tiger while others kept his movement more contained and focused on his facial expressions to carry the moment.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_(2002_film))

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20200922 Brother Bear

Tuesday, 22 September

#Today I wanna write about one of a cartoon that I like. I have watched it many times and I didn't feel bored to watch again and again. It was Brother Bear.

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Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 44th Disney animated feature film. In the film, an Inuit boy named Kenai pursues a bear in revenge for a fight that he provoked in which his oldest brother Sitka is killed. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, incensed by this unnecessary death, change Kenai into a bear himself as punishment. In order to be human again, Kenai must travel to a mountain where the Northern lights touch the earth. On his way, Kenai is joined by a bear cub, and learns to see through another's eyes, feel through another's heart, and discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.

The film was the third and final Disney animated feature produced primarily by the Feature Animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida; the studio was shut down in March 2004, not long after the release of this film in favor of computer-animated features. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. A direct-to-video sequel, Brother Bear 2, was released on August 29, 2006.

In a post-ice age Alaska, the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through the Great Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. A trio of brothers, Kenai, the youngest; Denahi, the middle; and Sitka, the eldest, return to their tribe in order to receive their totems, necklaces in the shapes of different animals. The particular animals they represent symbolize what they must achieve to call themselves men. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi, who gained the wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives the bear of love. He objects to his totem, stating that bears are thieves, and believes his point is made a fact when a Kodiak bear steals their basket of salmon. Kenai and his brothers pursue the bear, but a fight ends on top of a glacier, during which Sitka gives his life to save his brothers by dislodging the glacier, although the bear survives the fall. After Sitka's funeral, an enraged Kenai blames the bear for Sitka's death. He hunts down and chases the bear up onto a rocky cliff, fighting and eventually slaying it. The Spirits, represented by Sitka's spirit in the form of a bald eagle, show up and transform Kenai into a bear after the dead bear's body evaporates and joins them. Denahi arrives and, believing that Kenai was killed by the bear from earlier, vows to avenge Kenai by hunting it down.

Kenai falls down some rapids, survives, and is healed by Tanana, the shaman of his tribe. She does not speak the bear language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Sitka and be turned back to a human, but only when he atones for his actions; she vanishes without an explanation. Kenai quickly discovers that the wildlife can now speak to him, meeting a pair of moose brothers named Rutt and Tuke. He gets caught in a trap but is freed by an outgoing bear cub named Koda. They make a deal: Kenai will escort Koda to an annual salmon run and then the cub will lead Kenai to the mountain. As the two eventually form a brother-like relationship, Koda reveals that his mother is missing. The two are hunted by Denahi, who is still determined to avenge Kenai, unaware that the bear he is pursuing is actually Kenai himself. Eventually, Kenai and Koda reach the salmon run, where a large number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug. Kenai accepts his new surroundings and is comfortable living with the other bears. During a discussion among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother recently fighting human hunters on a glacier, reminding Kenai of his and his brothers' fight with the bear that leads to Sitka's death and making him realize that the entire time, the bear he killed was Koda's mother herself.

Shocked and horrified at his actions, Kenai runs away in a fit of guilt, but Koda soon follows him. Crestfallen, Kenai confesses the truth to Koda, who runs away, grief-stricken. An apologetic Kenai leaves to reach the mountain. Meanwhile, Rutt and Tuke, having had a falling-out, reform their brotherhood in front of Koda, prompting him to forgive Kenai. On the mountain, Kenai is cornered by Denahi, but their battle is interrupted by Koda, who steals Denahi's spear. Kenai sacrifices himself for Koda, out of love, prompting Sitka to appear and turn him back into a human, much to Denahi and Koda's surprise. However, upon realizing that Koda needs him because of his own mistake, Kenai asks Sitka to transform him back into a bear with Denahi's support. Sitka complies, and Kenai is transformed back into a bear. Koda is reunited briefly with the spirit of his mother before she and Sitka return to the spirit world. In the end, Kenai lives with the rest of the bears and gains his title as a man, through being a bear.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Bear)

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TALE (20191230) Winnie the Pooh

30 Desember (TigA puLuh dEsember)

#Hariini gw mau nulis tentang salah satu kartun disney, yaitu Winnie the Pooh.

Winnie the Pooh adalah sebuah karakter beruang yang dibuat oleh A. A. milne, dan dirilis pada 14 Oktober 1926.

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Pooh tinggal di sebuah pohon yang bertuliskan "Mr. Sanderz". Sahabat terdekat Pooh adalah Piglet (si babi kecil). Teman-temannya yang lain adalah Tiger (si macan), Rabbit (si kelinci), Kanga dan Roo (si kangguru), Eeyore (si keledai), Owl (si burung hantu). Dan satu-satunya temannya yang berwujud manusia adalah Christopher Robin.

Pada tahun 1997, PBB menetapkan Winnie The Pooh, tokoh kartun terkenal sebagai World's Ambassador of Friendship.

Tapi jika diamati secara psikologis, ternyata mereka punya gejala gangguan mental (idntimes.com)

1. Winnie The Pooh (Eating Disorder)

Pooh adalah sosok beruang madu yang doyan makan. Dia bakal terlihat mondar-mandir mencari madu. Gak jarang dia merepotkan teman-temannya sekadar untuk memuaskan hasrat laparnya. Kalau dilihat dari sisi psikologis, ada dugaan dia mengidap eating disorder atau gangguan makan. Penderitanya akan merasa terus-menerus lapar dan ingin makan.

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2. Piglet (Anxiety Disorder)

Piglet, si babi kecil ini punya sifat penakut berlebihan. Dia adalah sahabat Pooh yang seringkali cemas saat menghadapi sesuatu. Dugaan kuat dia mengalami anxiety disorder atau gangguan kecemasan. Sering sekali dia bersembunyi di balik pohon atau di belakang badan teman-temannya.

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3. Eeyore (Depressive Disorder)

Eeyore adalah sosok keledai yang punya ekor pita yang seringkali terlepas. Meski begitu, ia gak yakin akan menemukannya dan lebih suka untuk berdiam diri. Hampir setiap saat dia merasa gak bersemangat untuk menjalani hidup dan cenderung pemurung. Dari hal tersebut ada dugaan dia mengalami gejala depresi atau depressive disorder. 

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4. Owl (Dyslexia dan Short-Term Memory Loss)

Meski punya karakter yang cerdas, Owl sering digambarkan sebagai sosok yang pelupa dan sering salah mengeja. Dugaannya dia memiliki gangguan memori jangka pendek atau short term memory loss. Buktinya dia seringkali lupa apa yang baru saja dia katakan.

Selain itu, dia juga mengalami disleksia atau gangguan yang membuat otak kesulitan dalam mengolah bahasa. Hal ini mengakibatkan penderitanya kesulitan membaca dan mengeja. Salah satu buktinya saat dia mengeja kata school yang ditulis jadi skull.

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5. Tiger (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

Macan lincah yang punya ekor seperti pegas ini juga gak lepas dari dugaan gangguan mental. Hal tersebut terlihat dari perilakunya yang suka meloncat ke sana kemari tanpa henti. Dugaan kuat dia mengalami attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) yang berarti dorongan kuat untuk bertindak di luar kendali, baik perilaku maupun berbicara. Kalau kamu lihat sering kan dia merusak kebun Rabbit, meski sebenarnya dia gak bermaksud.

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6. Rabbit (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) adalah gangguan kecemasan yang mengakibatkan penderitanya sering melakukan sesuatu berulang-ulang. Ada dugaan Rabbit mengalaminya. Hal itu bisa dilihat dari cara Rabbit yang seringkali merasa cemas sehingga berulang-ulang merapikan hasil panennya. Meski buang-buang waktu, dia sering sekali melakukannya. Kalau gak dilakukan, dia pasti kepikiran. Namun, ada saja kelakuan Pooh yang membuatnya makin cemas, salah satunya mengacak-acak stok madu yang sudah dirapikan dan dikumpulkan olehnya.

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7. Kanga (Social Anxiety Disorder)

Kanga adalah sosok kanguru yang diduga punya social anxiety disorder. Hal tersebut dilihat dari caranya yang terlewat protektif dalam menjaga anaknya, Roo. Dia selalu cemas untuk membiarkan Roo keluar kantungnya dan berkeliaran. Dia beranggapan bahwa dunia di luar kantungnya berbahaya bagi Roo. 

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8. Roo (Autism)

Mungkin ada benarnya Kanga sangat protektif terhadap Roo mengingat Roo seringkali gak merespons dan mengabaikan peringatan yang diberikan orang-orang di sekitarnya. Ada dugaan kalau Roo mengidap autisme. Terbukti Roo kadang suka mendekati bahaya seakan gak terjadi apa-apa. Dia pun sering berdiam diri di dalam kantung Kanga dan jarang berinteraksi dengan siapa pun.

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9. Christopher Robin (Schizophrenia)

Satu-satunya karakter manusia dalam kisah Winnie the Pooh adalah Christipher Robin. Dia terlihat sering bermain dengan Pooh dan kawan-kawan. Kalau melihat konteks bahwa Pooh dan kawan-kawan adalah boneka binatang, bisa jadi mereka adalah imajinasi dari Christopher Robin sendiri. Ada dugaan, Christopher Robin mengalami skizofrenia yang membuat penderitanya tidak bisa membedakan mana yang nyata dan mana yang imajinatif.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Robin

Meski ada dugaan kuat karakter-karakter Winnie the Pooh mengalami gangguan mental, A.A. Milne selaku kreator tidak pernah mengonfirmasinya. Namun, sebagai pembaca atau penonton Winnie the Pooh jangan buru-buru menganggap karya ini buruk. Terbukti, banyak sekali yang bisa dipetik dari petualangan Pooh dan kawan-kawan, seperti arti dari persahabatan dan tolong-menolong. Karena itu, bijak-bijaklah dalam memilah-milah mana yang bisa diteladani.

Dengan melihat banyaknya karakter Winnie the Pooh yang mengalami gangguan mental, bisa jadi kamu bisa melihat teman-temanmu yang mengalami gejala yang serupa dan bisa membantunya. 

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