![]() It really sets the 70s tone of the whole film. Neil: It’s a big part of the film, of the vibe. The music was one of the most exciting things about the movie, at least related to the 70s. This guy said he had an exploitation band. We wanted an authentic band to do an original score. I was working at an event for Concordia doing video and I started talking to the guy who was working the soundboard. It’s animated too, so it made more sense.įraser: The other big appeal of the 70s is that blaxploitation movies had the best scores of any movie genre of any era. Neil: I would say the movie was equally-if not more inspired-by blaxploitation poster art than it was inspired by blaxploitation films itself. All the visual information from the movie was inspired by that. We probably went through that a thousand times. We thought it would be cool to do a blaxploitation 70s vibe because it’s this badass story about him beating up these bikers.įraser Munden: Quentin Tarantino had a publication house for a while and he has a book called What It Is…What It Was! It’s composed of blaxploitation posters from the 70s. The story is about Ralph, who was one of the first black teachers in the Montreal English School Board. Neil: Fraser and I are big fans of exploitation films and 70s B movies. The story takes place in the 70s, and judging from the number of 70s posters you bought for our old apartment, I can tell you are a big fan of that era. We could do that, but for some reason we were just doing it on our own. We were like cavemen in a cave inventing a wheel when there are people driving around in Porsches. We had absolutely no animation experience. I was spending entire days drawing and doing 20 frames, and with ten frames a second, it’s only two seconds. Neil: You saw when we were living together the amount of time that goes into that shit. ![]() There are a bunch of different animation styles for the film, but it’s mostly hand-drawn and hand-colored drawings. It’s something that we can both do and be consistent, and you wouldn’t necessarily be able to look at it and say, “This person drew this, this person drew that.” In video class we’d pass drawings back and forth and make each other laugh. Neil: It’s a hybrid of my drawing style and Fraser’s drawing style. He was just crying with laughter and I was like, Who is this fucking kid? I guess he thought this was funny, so we started sitting together in video class.īetween your previous film, Vaseline and Pepper, and The Chaperone, you guys have managed to develop and maintain a consistent and very distinct hand-drawn style. And I just went “uggh” and Fraser started dying with laughter. There were slow moving shots that came close to these wrinkled bodies moving in the water. We were watching a slow artistic video about old people doing water aerobics in a pool. Neil Rathbone: Fraser and I met in video class. Over the course of the summer, Cora's eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.I met with Neil and his partner, Fraser Munden, to talk about the film, blaxploitation, their experience at TIFF, and David Arquette’s obsession with their puppets. And while what she finds isn't what she anticipated, it liberates her in a way she could not have imagined. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will change their lives forever.įor Cora, New York holds the promise of discovery that might prove an answer to the question at the center of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in a strange and bustling city, she embarks on her own mission. ![]() She has no idea what she's in for: Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous blunt bangs and black bob, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Cora Carlisle is a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip. ![]() Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six year old chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. ![]() Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. ![]()
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