Hoppers apuesta de nuevo por los animales en 'Hoppers', la nueva película de Pixar

00:00 - 00:31 Many movies with powerful messages are protagonized by animals. We see it a lot in Disney, and also in the classics and classics, in The Three Degrees, in The Ophioth. Why do you think animals work so well as allegory figures and narrative vehicles? Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, I think animals are always kind of great metaphors, because I think they, you know, we live with these animals and we see them, And I think we're always very curious about what their personalities are and how they talk.

00:31 - 00:47 But I also think that they can, seeing them anthropomorphic, I think people can project onto them different, you know, ourselves without having to think about, you know, race or gender or anything like that.

00:47 - 01:25 You know, I think it just is a nice kind of, for lack of a better word, avatar for us as people. And I think that's why, and I think generally we're also very intrigued by the animal world. I think there's a general curiosity about it. So I think for all these reasons, for the span of time, stories with animals have persisted.

01:25 - 01:50 Okay. Wow. That sounded very philosophical. I think maybe, okay, to answer that, I'll try my best to answer that. I think trying to set up what the pawn rules were in this movie, which is kind of the rules all these animals live by, I think the fun thing is that they don't always make sense, and Mabel calls it out.

01:50 - 02:24 She says they have their contradictions in it. and I think to me that is the truth of anything is that there are always going to be contradictions but I think the important thing for any kind of rules is that we all kind of feel like we have a common goal and we all want to work together to make it work so I think that it was interesting to get to play around in the animal world and push that to the point of like the animals are also okay with them eating each other but I think they all understand it's for this greater good in their ecosystem that that has to happen.

02:24 - 02:35 It kind of sounds funny, and we are playing as a joke, but I think that is the truth behind it, is that there will always be contradictions, you know, to any bunch of rules that everyone abides by.

02:35 - 03:06 But I think as long as everyone just tries to have the best intention that we want, we have a common goal, I think that's when it works really well. Is there anything to prevent it? Is there a similarity to the global global? Huh. Well, yeah, I mean, part of the movie has to do with power and what people do with power.

03:06 - 03:25 So, for example, just Mabel and this mayor that she's fighting against. You know, the mayor has all the power. Mabel has no power. And it's frustrating. She can't do anything because of that. But when Mabel hops and goes into the animal world, that's her trying to find power.

03:25 - 03:42 And when she finds that community of animals, that's power. When she meets the council, that's more power. She's getting more power. And then the question becomes, when you have power, what do you do with it? And some people use it poorly. Some people use it correctly. And King George, for example, has power.

03:42 - 04:14 He uses it correctly. He just wants to bring people together. So it becomes, I think, part of the thematic things within the movie have to do with how do people with power deal with it, and what do they do with it, and do they use it for good or bad. And I think that exploration is something that we have experienced forever, and I think it feels very relevant today, probably.

04:14 - 04:35 justicias, like the character of Love, the castor? No, I mean, I think there's still a lot of people like Mabel out there in the world that are fighting. And you need people like Mabel. You need people like George. And Loaf also becomes brave in the movie, you know.

04:35 - 04:57 So I and I think no matter what happens, there are always all these different personalities in the world. And that's a good thing because I think that will help just give us the ability to – for people to still fight for the little guy and people who need help.

04:57 - 05:10 And a little bit of what we talked about before, the violence of power, how dangerous is not the proliferation of violence, but the normalization of violence, which is a little bit of what happens with the law of the estanque?

05:10 - 05:30 Well, I mean, I wouldn't want to compare the violence in the animal world with the violence in the human world. I mean, I think there, it's a little different. Um, and obviously the, the way that we're playing it in the movie is just that animals eat each other.

05:30 - 05:52 And that is the truth of their ecosystem. Um, but the violence in, in, in our world, you know, I think it's, it has, it's got a different connotation, I think. So I wouldn't want to compare those things and I'm not trying to draw those parallels. But hopefully people can just see that overall there is this desire for coexistence.

05:52 - 05:56 That is probably the bigger thing I'm trying to get across.