Matt_9_I
I, too, found the section in this chapter discussing children's stories to be interesting. I also agree that it takes a very talented person to create a good children's story. I can't help but think of Pixar, Dreamworks, Blue Sky, Sony Imageworks, and other animation studios that have managed to not only make stories that are effective for children, but for adults as well. I've always been impressed by films are able to do this. They are admittedly some of my favorite movies.
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posted by Graffanino @ 3:05 PM
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I like these type of films as well, but I do believe that they are geared more toward adults than children. Kids watch because they are cartoons, but the story line is geared toward adults. The days of Cinderella are gone. Shrek has taken over and he is a complicated fellow.
I remembering watching a making of one of these films and they said because every frame of the film is made they have the opportunity if not the responsibility to add an much as possible.
I wouldn't give it up to the studios though...those are writers. Studios just make it visually possible.
Have you ever gone back and watched some of the movies you watched when you were a kid? Everytime I do that I pick up on a ton of stuff I never would have seen when I was little. I think that there are a lot of movies that appeal to both children and adults and we don't realize it.
I don't even think some of the stories we generally think of as children's stories were even MEANT to be for kids. Especially I think of some of the original Disney cartoons, or especially of the Warner Brothers cartoons of the 40s and 50s. Those were meant to be additional entertainment for anyone who was going into the theaters to watch movies.
Spielberg has gone back to a bit of that thought in the 80s and 90s. He created a few Roger Rabbit shorts and Animaniacs. The former was not aimed specifically at children, and the latter, although was broadcast at the time children would be watching, contained jokes only adults would get.
Children's stories can be challenging... but they are also very fundamental. They are at the very core of storytelling. This might make it seem like it would be easier to tell a children's story... but it actually makes it harder
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