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Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga'Hoole Reaction V3

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Anonymous

Directed by Zack Snyder

Kayla

7:03 that animal was a Tasmanian devil. And then later on the echidna it is one of the few mammals that can lay eggs, there are two types long beaked and short beaked. The echidna i believe is either Australian or New Zealand, which a few of the actors are from that area of the world. The metal flecks i think is meant to represent the magnetic field, some animals do get affected by it and there are some that use it for migration. I haven’t read the books but it is possible there is a bit of magic add to it, but it may just be a movie thing. Tyto- is the Genus name for barn owls and as barn owls are adaptive this could be why they are considered higher up species. But the tree had snowy owls as king and queen and while I love the snowy owl, I’d go with the Eurasian eagle owl that thing is huger and more intense. Some fun actor knowledge- The snake, Mrs. P, Professor Sprout in HP, Allomere-the traitor owl Sam Neil aka Doctor Alan Grant from Jurassic Park!!! Ezylryb Captain Barbosa, Soren was taught by a pirate of the Caribbean! And we have two Lord of the Rings actors- Digger voiced by David Wenham who played Faramir, and the father of Soren and Grimble voiced by Hugo Weaving-Lord Elrond! The casting for this movie is incredible. Now as you mentioned the idea of how to direct a movie about owls, it made me think of Spirit a movie about a horse. Granted they added eyebrows to create emotions, but how Zack Snyder had the owls express emotions was well done. Especially has owls are covered in feathers and there are so many small feathers around the faces of owls. The live action animals of Jungle Book I felt was superior compared to live action Lion King, which is interesting. Craziest part is that Aslan a lion in early 2000s has had better voice/talking, emotion display and design than some of the modern films.

Jesus

There's such an intangible skill and artistry to being able to make animal characters convey human emotion, and it seems to get exponentially harder the closer you get to photorealistic animals. The Lion King was a technical marvel, but a poor movie/remake, because the animals just had no emotion. I'm kinda surprised at this film, because the owls look basically photoreal (At least on a freezeframe), but so successfully convey emotions.

Kayla

Maybe it has to do with the eyes. Owls faces tend to be taken up by their eyes, so being able to focus on the eyes probably helped.