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 | Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie by Brian Sibley | Reviewed by Amy Harlib | |
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| Publisher: Abrams, Publishers, NY
http://www.abramsbooks.com/books.html ISBN: 0-8109-4124-4 Genre: non-fiction Subgenre: movies and TV Release date: June 2000 Format: hardcover Pages: 192 Price: $35.00 | |||
| http://www.aardman.com/showcase/chick_fr.html
http://www.briansibley.com/ Brian Sibley, journalist and well-known BBC radio personality is responsible for writing this beautifully packaged, large-format, coffee-table book about the making of the eagerly-awaited first feature film from Aardman, England's innovative animation studio. It's well nigh impossible to write about this project without succumbing to the lure of horrible puns, but fans of Aardman's popular Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit short films will cackle with glee as they fly to their nearest bookstore to shell out the not "poultry" sum of $35 bucks to find their prize is not chicken feed and worth every penny! Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie, illustrated with hundreds of photos, two-thirds of them in color -- production stills, behind-the-scenes shots, and portraits of all the major personalities involved plus loads of conceptual sketches and storyboard drawings -- is a sort of everything you ever wanted to know about this film but was afraid to ask; for there's plenty of text too. Chicken Run's directors, Nick Park and Peter Lord, the premier doyens of stop-motion animation of three-dimensional puppets, use this painstakingly precise, delicate and slow art-form to create memorable, eccentric characters, swift-paced and wildly inventive plots, and exceedingly amusing situations. "Chicken Run", (think of "Great Escape from Stalag 17" with chickens), is set on the English farm of Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy and is about how a hen named Ginger leads an intrepid band of poultry in repeated escape attempts. Events reach crisis proportions, signaling imminent doom for the flock when the Tweedys acquire a machine that makes chicken pies. Just in the nick of time, an American rooster named Rocky arrives on the scene, a feisty ex-circus performer who seems to be able to fly and is persuaded by Ginger to teach this desirable skill to her fellow prisoners and lead a daring escape. In addition to a summary of Chicken Run's plot, the book offers a brief history of Aardman Studios, an account of the evolution of the concept of "Chicken Run", and a revealing look at the modus operandi of the directors and the highly skilled artists in their employ, showing how this extremely ambitious film is made (at the rate of 4 seconds per day per animator). An appendix includes the complete credits. Author Sibley, in clear, concise prose devoid of gushing or over-effusiveness, uses extensive interviews to recount how the movie evolved from an idea doodled in a sketchbook to a fully realized feature, revealing the secrets of the model-making shop, the set-design shop and the animation studios -- all this profusely illustrated as mentioned previously. The talented actors who supplied the voices also get their fair share of interviews, too, in this splendid volume that film buffs, chicken fans, animation enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the creative process involved in producing a stop-motion animated movie will treasure. It's the next best thing to being there every day contructing and playing with model chickens for 3 years! | |||
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