'The three hits of 'Spider-Verse,' 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Mario' will give us a little more latitude [to] Trojan-horse a lot of good sh** into the animation world,' the 'Pinocchio' director told the crowd at the Annecy festival.
are moving things, allowing a little more latitude, but there are still big fights to be had,” he said. “Animation to me is the purest form of art, and it’s been kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. We have to rescue it. [And] I think that we can Trojan-horse a lot of good shit into the animation world.”
The 58-year-old filmmaker spent a good portion of his Annecy master class deriding what he sees as destructive tendencies in much commercial animation where characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior. [If] I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. [Why] does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think is emotional pornography.
The enemy, del Toro told the audience of mainly animation students, was not artificial intelligence, but good old corporate stupidity. “When people say they’re scared of AI, I say don’t be afraid of any intelligence: Be afraid of stupidity. Every intelligence is artificial. Stupidity is natural. Completely 100 percent natural organic. Be afraid of stability. That’s the real enemy.” Referencing studio speech, he noted: “I think when somebody calls stories ‘content,’ when somebody says ‘pipeline,’ they’re using sewage language.”
Del Toro, quite a potty mouth himself, warned students that they will have to deal with a film industry “that is geared towards grinding out shit and destroying your art.” He noted that he still gets rejected, regularly, by the studios. “They still say no to me. In the last two months, they said no to five of my projects. So it doesn’t go away. Making movies is eating a sandwich of shit. There’s always shit, just sometimes you get a little more bread with yours.
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