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How do you honor what your loved ones are passionate about?

Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright are watching Ratatouille and reacting to the theme of telling the story of being an artist. For Remy, it’s through food and cooking, and they talk about how everyone has their own medium of art. Alan talks about the art of filmmaking, both from his perspective and genius director Brad Bird. Jonathan explains why finding your passion is foundational to loving and accepting yourself. And they come up with some wild theories about Remy’s psychosis.

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Ravenclaw 14

my sister is one of those people who fsr hate the French. Imagine her reaction when her DNA test came back showing we have at least 11% French DNA

Noc

Great video! Also, it struck me how Alan said the story of ‘Ratatouille’ only came together in the last 18 months, after Brad Bird was given a bunch of models and sets and then told to write something new for them – not just for how well he did, but also because that’s almost EXACTLY what happened with ‘Zootopia’! For years the Disney studio worked on a *completely* different draft of the story that centered on Nick and involved predators being forced to wear shock collars, but no matter what they tried, it wasn’t working. Eventually, with only a year and a half left, they asked the geniuses at Pixar for help, and were advised their premise was fundamentally flawed – it was impossible to depict a “utopic” city that was also a quasi-apartheid state, and making the societal problem so obvious removed any subtlety to the story. So they threw out the “shock collar” plot altogether and came up with an entirely new story that made the systemic prejudice more subtle and realistic, which ultimately worked much better, both as a story and as a message. It’s amazing, sometimes, what kind of brilliance can come out of a massive time crunch. At least the sequel next year won’t have that issue, hopefully! (Hope it’s all right if I spent most of this comment talking about a whole different movie … 😅)