Animation Appreciation Refuge Thread #1

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>>706

I see where you're coming from but at the same time I wonder if this approach was used because we as viewers should have a similar vantage with the two kids, since the story mostly revolves around them growing up, and how each deal with the absence of a father/wolf figure in their lives. It feels deliberate. And like you said, it's a compromise; personal preferences aside (I too wouldn't have minded at all if the film were longer) I'd say they nailed the balance. And it was cool because the editing format allowed for some pretty nice stuff that you woulnd't have had otherwise, because they just don't work in longer cuts. Some of those montages felt like some sort of equivalent to a musical moment in Disney films, and I think they took some artistic licence during them, for example the scene where they slide down the hill in the snow. Can you really do that in real life? I don't know, but it looked really great.