Monday, October 22, 2012

Hedgehog in the Fog Imagination At Work.

Hedgehog in the fog was super cool. The animation style is frill and very enjoyable. It was also very obvious how much hard work was put into this with the actual animation of the fog. The story is very simplistic, which is good for the children, but it also has a deeper meaning, primarily the question of 'how does the horse breath in the fog?' It's never really answered, what also isn't answered, is the identity of the thing in the water that brought the hedgehog to the shore. I really think a great simplistic story can usually be backed up with some mysteries that make you use your imagination. It was never explained what the thing in the water was, but you personally came up with something. Whether it be trout, snake, turtle, whatever, our imagination was put on the spot and we reacted accordingly. It is better when a movies leaves the 'fantasy' part to the viewer alone, not entirely, but enough where personal imagination can be used to enhance the experience. I know there are many examples of this, but one that really sticks out would be the idea behind Darth Vader. Yes, Darth Vader from star wars, before the prequels were out, when he first appeared within the first minutes of Episode 4, people didn't know what to think. His powerful entrance and mysterious disguise led people to many speculations to what was under the mask. Was is a human? a robot? an alien? and if so, was he a freakishly disgusting mutant or maybe a prince charming underneath that black mask? ( I don't think a whole lot of people thought of that last one. Before the revelation at the end of Episode 6, everyone was left in mystery, and used their own unbiased imagination to relinquish the idea of what lied behind the breathing exterior, and we did the exact same with the underwater creature in Hedgehog and the Fog. I think it's a brilliant technique, and I'd love to incorporate it into the films I will make in the next coming years.

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