Stephen Dubner

Pinkova left Pixar soon after, and he worked on a few other features and shorts, but none have achieved as much acclaim or prestige as Ratatouille or the other projects he worked on at Pixar. And where is Jan Pinkova today?

This reminds me of hearing Werner Herzog talk not that long ago about when he was in film school. Mostly he just stole cameras from school and went out and shot. Yeah.

This reminds me of hearing Werner Herzog talk not that long ago about when he was in film school. Mostly he just stole cameras from school and went out and shot. Yeah.

This reminds me of hearing Werner Herzog talk not that long ago about when he was in film school. Mostly he just stole cameras from school and went out and shot. Yeah.

I've heard you speak about the mission of filmmaking and storytelling generally, which is to give people not just an opportunity to be engaged and entertained, but an opportunity to change their perspective on something. When you began thinking about and writing Ratatouille, what perspective were you thinking about changing?

I've heard you speak about the mission of filmmaking and storytelling generally, which is to give people not just an opportunity to be engaged and entertained, but an opportunity to change their perspective on something. When you began thinking about and writing Ratatouille, what perspective were you thinking about changing?

I've heard you speak about the mission of filmmaking and storytelling generally, which is to give people not just an opportunity to be engaged and entertained, but an opportunity to change their perspective on something. When you began thinking about and writing Ratatouille, what perspective were you thinking about changing?

I didn't think about the Nazis until the scenes well along in the film after Remy gets reunited with his rat family and his rat tribe in the sewers. And then later... He gets lost on the streets of Paris and he runs into some humans who plainly hate rats. They scream when they see him. They literally kick him to the curb and he's made to feel disgusting, dirty, worthless, etc., etc. Yeah.

I didn't think about the Nazis until the scenes well along in the film after Remy gets reunited with his rat family and his rat tribe in the sewers. And then later... He gets lost on the streets of Paris and he runs into some humans who plainly hate rats. They scream when they see him. They literally kick him to the curb and he's made to feel disgusting, dirty, worthless, etc., etc. Yeah.

I didn't think about the Nazis until the scenes well along in the film after Remy gets reunited with his rat family and his rat tribe in the sewers. And then later... He gets lost on the streets of Paris and he runs into some humans who plainly hate rats. They scream when they see him. They literally kick him to the curb and he's made to feel disgusting, dirty, worthless, etc., etc. Yeah.

That was the first time that the allegory really hit me. I'm curious, when you grow up in Europe as you did, you have a different relationship to the war plainly than Americans do and different relationship to Germany and Nazism. It's interesting that you're now living in Germany. Obviously, so much has changed. But I am curious about

That was the first time that the allegory really hit me. I'm curious, when you grow up in Europe as you did, you have a different relationship to the war plainly than Americans do and different relationship to Germany and Nazism. It's interesting that you're now living in Germany. Obviously, so much has changed. But I am curious about

That was the first time that the allegory really hit me. I'm curious, when you grow up in Europe as you did, you have a different relationship to the war plainly than Americans do and different relationship to Germany and Nazism. It's interesting that you're now living in Germany. Obviously, so much has changed. But I am curious about

you know, the way Remy in that moment was seen as an outcast, as dirty, as ruinous.

you know, the way Remy in that moment was seen as an outcast, as dirty, as ruinous.

you know, the way Remy in that moment was seen as an outcast, as dirty, as ruinous.

And Remy tries to convince his father that the course of events can change. The course of events, in this case, being rat relations with humans. In your film, it's hard to say whether the rats hate the humans more or the humans hate the rats more. It's intense on both sides. And the father argues that, you know, son, nature is nature, right? What were you going for there?

And Remy tries to convince his father that the course of events can change. The course of events, in this case, being rat relations with humans. In your film, it's hard to say whether the rats hate the humans more or the humans hate the rats more. It's intense on both sides. And the father argues that, you know, son, nature is nature, right? What were you going for there?

And Remy tries to convince his father that the course of events can change. The course of events, in this case, being rat relations with humans. In your film, it's hard to say whether the rats hate the humans more or the humans hate the rats more. It's intense on both sides. And the father argues that, you know, son, nature is nature, right? What were you going for there?

Was your original ending, even if just in your head, as happy an ending as the film ultimately had?