Jan Pinkava
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And on the other side, he's betraying his people, his family. He wants to work with the enemy, with the people who will kill us if they see us. So he's stuck there on his own. Ratatouille as an idea, as a story, it's an allegory. What's it about, really? It's not about rats and cooking. It's about prejudice. It's about...
Overcoming the limitations imposed on you by misrepresentation, by misunderstanding. It's about racism, sexism, everything. All those different forms of prejudice in the form of a rat cooking story.
Overcoming the limitations imposed on you by misrepresentation, by misunderstanding. It's about racism, sexism, everything. All those different forms of prejudice in the form of a rat cooking story.
Overcoming the limitations imposed on you by misrepresentation, by misunderstanding. It's about racism, sexism, everything. All those different forms of prejudice in the form of a rat cooking story.
Well, it's always been a slur to call someone a rat. That's an epithet that's used to paint them as the other, the thing that you should hate and kill and push away. Any story that sees the world from the perspective of the shunned and the hated is hopefully gives us an opportunity to open up our feelings for each other.
Well, it's always been a slur to call someone a rat. That's an epithet that's used to paint them as the other, the thing that you should hate and kill and push away. Any story that sees the world from the perspective of the shunned and the hated is hopefully gives us an opportunity to open up our feelings for each other.
Well, it's always been a slur to call someone a rat. That's an epithet that's used to paint them as the other, the thing that you should hate and kill and push away. Any story that sees the world from the perspective of the shunned and the hated is hopefully gives us an opportunity to open up our feelings for each other.
Well, Django, the father, he has a point, right? Everything the world tells him is he's right. There's no arguing against him. Remy gets it. And you hope that the whole thing adds up to that moment when Remy finally has to come out. reveal himself as the cooking rat, step off that ledge with no one to catch him and take that ultimate risk with the risk of his own life. It's a real crisis.
Well, Django, the father, he has a point, right? Everything the world tells him is he's right. There's no arguing against him. Remy gets it. And you hope that the whole thing adds up to that moment when Remy finally has to come out. reveal himself as the cooking rat, step off that ledge with no one to catch him and take that ultimate risk with the risk of his own life. It's a real crisis.
Well, Django, the father, he has a point, right? Everything the world tells him is he's right. There's no arguing against him. Remy gets it. And you hope that the whole thing adds up to that moment when Remy finally has to come out. reveal himself as the cooking rat, step off that ledge with no one to catch him and take that ultimate risk with the risk of his own life. It's a real crisis.
It's a life or death choice. And he chooses to be himself. And hopefully the story adds up to that feeling with the audience going, what will happen? How will this go? Because your job as a story writer is to get to that ending that really has to happen in the movie. There's only one way to end it. He has to find a way to be himself.
It's a life or death choice. And he chooses to be himself. And hopefully the story adds up to that feeling with the audience going, what will happen? How will this go? Because your job as a story writer is to get to that ending that really has to happen in the movie. There's only one way to end it. He has to find a way to be himself.
It's a life or death choice. And he chooses to be himself. And hopefully the story adds up to that feeling with the audience going, what will happen? How will this go? Because your job as a story writer is to get to that ending that really has to happen in the movie. There's only one way to end it. He has to find a way to be himself.
Yeah, he ends up being able to cook. That was always going to happen. And interacting with humans. Yeah, because there are some humans that he can interact with. The humans who care about cooking and who don't care who's doing the cooking because they recognize genius when they see it. What I do love is this
Yeah, he ends up being able to cook. That was always going to happen. And interacting with humans. Yeah, because there are some humans that he can interact with. The humans who care about cooking and who don't care who's doing the cooking because they recognize genius when they see it. What I do love is this
Yeah, he ends up being able to cook. That was always going to happen. And interacting with humans. Yeah, because there are some humans that he can interact with. The humans who care about cooking and who don't care who's doing the cooking because they recognize genius when they see it. What I do love is this
dramatized contrast of the world's attitudes to cooking and rats in one with ego the critic brad did a fantastic thing of casting peter o'toole which was one of his last roles and really a beautiful performance and this whole zoom into his childhood when he tastes the ratatouille and suddenly this cold cadaverous disappointed critic whose entire career has been
dramatized contrast of the world's attitudes to cooking and rats in one with ego the critic brad did a fantastic thing of casting peter o'toole which was one of his last roles and really a beautiful performance and this whole zoom into his childhood when he tastes the ratatouille and suddenly this cold cadaverous disappointed critic whose entire career has been
dramatized contrast of the world's attitudes to cooking and rats in one with ego the critic brad did a fantastic thing of casting peter o'toole which was one of his last roles and really a beautiful performance and this whole zoom into his childhood when he tastes the ratatouille and suddenly this cold cadaverous disappointed critic whose entire career has been
being judgmental, is returned to his early childhood in just one moment, and we feel for him.