September 6, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oogieloves-big-balloon-adventure-20120903,0,7665861.story
'The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure,' which cost $60 million to make, was on track to take in only $6 million in its first weekend.
The idea was to create a two-way entertainment experience, which Viselman believed that it had been lacking in the children's space. He said he was inspired to create "Oogieloves" after seeing a Tyler Perry movie in a theater, where people got into it and talked back to the screen. "Oogieloves" is a culmination of a dream that began with Teletubbies, whose British licensors Viselman could not persuade to make a feature film. The hook of "Oogieloves" was that it encouraged children to get up and dance while some of the songs played. I thought it was kind of odd how he came up with this toddler movie, because he has no kids. Viselman had mentioned that, "Pixar always had the triumph of good over evil." He had said "Why did there have to be evil in the first place?" Which brought him to the direction of the "Oogieloves".
I think this article is important, because it shows how directors come up with their ideas for different kinds of movies. This article caught my eye, because my five yr old niece really wanted to watch this movie, but we all thought this movie just looked ridiculous just by how it looked, and what the characters looked like. There is an impact of this article on me as a student, because the ideas that some directors come up with are crazy. As a toddler in the mid 90's, they weren't coming up with these kinds of movies, they were coming up with like "The Little Rascals", "The Lion King", etc. As a future filmmaker, this impacts me, because it sets a pretty good expectation on toddler movies, but just not as high as the Pixar and Dreamworks films. Some questions I came up with is, Did the toddlers really like this movie? How long did it take for Viselman to come up with this whole film? The idea was to create a two-way entertainment experience, which Viselman believed that it had been lacking in the children's space. He said he was inspired to create "Oogieloves" after seeing a Tyler Perry movie in a theater, where people got into it and talked back to the screen. "Oogieloves" is a culmination of a dream that began with Teletubbies, whose British licensors Viselman could not persuade to make a feature film. The hook of "Oogieloves" was that it encouraged children to get up and dance while some of the songs played. I thought it was kind of odd how he came up with this toddler movie, because he has no kids. Viselman had mentioned that, "Pixar always had the triumph of good over evil." He had said "Why did there have to be evil in the first place?" Which brought him to the direction of the "Oogieloves".
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oogieloves-big-balloon-adventure-20120903,0,7665861.story
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