Dinosaurs the 2000 animated film

Dinosaurs the 2000 animated film

Dinosaurs (Dinosaur) is a 2000 CGI CGI adventure animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation in association with The Secret Lab. The 39th Disney animated film and tells the story of a young Iguanodon who was adopted and raised by a family of lemurs on a tropical island. After surviving a devastating meteor shower, the family moves into their new home and along the way befriend a pack of dinosaurs on a journey to the "Nesting Nest". Unfortunately, they are hunted by predators such as Carnotaurus.

Dinosaurs trailer the 2000 animated film

The initial idea was conceived in 1986 by Phil Tippett and Paul Verhoeven, who conceived it as a darker, more naturalistic dinosaur film. The project has undergone numerous collaborations with various directors. In 1994, Walt Disney Feature Animation began development on the project and spent several years developing the software to create the dinosaurs. Dinosaur characters are computer generated. However, most of the wallpapers are live-action and were shot on location. A number of backgrounds have been found on various continents such as the Americas and Asia; various tepui and jumping angels also appear in the film. With a budget of $ 127,5 million, Dinosaurs was reportedly the most expensive computer-made animated film of the time.

Dinosaurs was first screened on May 19, 2000 with mixed reviews. Critics praised the film's opening sequence and animation, but criticized the story for its lack of originality; some have also highlighted similarities with In search of the Enchanted Valley (The Land Before Time) (1988). The film grossed $ 350 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2000. It became the fourth best-selling home video release of 2001, selling 10,6 million copies and earning $ 198 million in sales.

History

A Carnotaurus attacks a herd of mixed-species dinosaurs, destroying an Iguanodon nest, before killing a young Pachyrhinosaurus female. The only surviving Iguanodon egg is stolen by small predators and, after a series of accidents, is dropped on an island inhabited by prehistoric lemurs. Plio, the daughter of their patriarch Yar, names the born child Aladar and raises him along with her daughter Suri, despite Yar's initial objections.

Several years later, an adult Aladar watches lemurs take part in a mating ritual, in which Plio's clumsy teenage brother Zini, who is also Suri and Aladar's uncle, is unsuccessful. Moments after the ritual ends, they are interrupted by a meteor crashing to Earth, creating an explosive shockwave that destroys the island. Aladar and Yar's family flee across the sea to the mainland. Being the only survivors, the others mourn before moving on.

As they travel through the scorched wasteland, they are attacked by a pack of Velociraptors. They escape by joining a multi-species herd of dinosaur refugees on their way to common nesting grounds. Meeting up with the callous Iguanodon pack leader Kron, they retreat to the end of the line and befriend old Styracosaurus Eema, her dog-like pet Ankylosaurus Url, and her equally elderly friend Baylene, the only Brachiosaurus in the group. They travel for days without water to the site of a lake, only to find it seemingly dried up. Kron orders the herd to go ahead and let the weaker ones die, but Aladar is left behind with a sick Eema. He and Baylene dig until they find some water. The rest of the herd follows suit and Kron's sister Neera, impressed by Aladar's compassion, begins to approach him, while Kron fears that she will want to take over.

Meanwhile, two Carnotaurus are following the herd. Kron's Lieutenant Altirhinus, Bruton, reports on approaching predators after surviving an attack on a reconnaissance mission. Kron quickly drives the herd away from the lake, deliberately leaving Bruton, Aladar, the lemurs, and the elderly dinosaurs behind. The group takes refuge in a cave at nightfall, but the predators catch up with them and attack. Bruton sacrifices his life to cause a collapse that kills one of the Carnotaurus, forcing the survivor to retreat.

The group ventures deeper into the cave, but they reach a dead end. Although Aladar briefly loses hope, Baylene uses her strength to break through the wall and they arrive at the Nesting Grounds on the other side. Eema notes that a landslide has blocked the usual valley entrance. Aladar rushes to warn Kron and finds him as he tries to lead the herd over the landslide, unaware of the sheer drop on the other side. Kron battles Aladar, taking Aladar's warnings as a challenge to his leadership, until Neera, fed up with Kron's illogical behavior, intervenes. Realizing Kron's selfishness and recklessness, the pack follows Aladar, while Kron stubbornly tries to climb the rocks on his own.

The hungry Carnotaurus arrives, but Aladar gathers everyone to line up together in a challenge. The Carnotaurus is scared and instead chases Kron. Aladar and Neera rush to rescue him, but fail to get there in time. Aladar manages to push Carnotaurus over the precipice to death; he and Neera mourn Kron, then lead the herd to the nesting ground. Sometime later, a new generation of dinosaurs hatches, including the offspring of Aladar and Neera, and lemurs find others of their own kind.

Production

The initial idea for the film was born in 1986 during the filming of Robocop (1987) in which Phil Tippett recommended director Paul Verhoeven to produce a "dinosaur painting". Verhoeven responded positively to the idea and suggested an approach inspired by Shane (1953) in which "you follow a main character through a series of situations and move from a devastated landscape to a promised land". Veteran screenwriter Walon Green was then called upon to write the script. Verhoeven then drew two storyboards and calculated that the project's preliminary budget was $ 45 million. When the idea was introduced to then Disney president Jeffrey Katzenberg, he suggested that the project should be budgeted for $ 25 million.

In 1988, the project began development in Disney's live-action division where Verhoeven and Tippett had originally planned to use stop motion animation techniques such as puppets, scale models and miniatures. The original main protagonist of the film was a Styracosaurus named Woot and the main antagonist was originally a Tyrannosaurus rex named Grozni, with a small mammal named Suri as a supporting character. The film was originally supposed to have a much darker and more violent tone, in a style similar to a nature documentary. After Woot defeated Grozni in a final fight, the film would end with the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which would ultimately result in the deaths of the main dinosaur characters. In 1990, producer / director Thomas G. Smith became involved in the film and briefly became director after the departure of Verhoeven and Tippett. Reflecting on his assignment, Smith said that “Jeanne Rosenberg was still writing the script, but she was in trouble. Disney wanted a cute story of talking dinosaurs and I didn't like the idea. I thought she should be more like Jean Annaud ”The bear. I wanted to include real lemurs. In reality they existed at the time of the dinosaurs… In reality we have identified a boy who trains them ”. However, Katzenberg called Smith to help in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) in which he was replaced by David W. Allen who had just finished directing Puppet Master II (1990).

After several months of doing lemur auditions to play Suri and create the visual development, Allen's version has also fallen into development hell. Smith said, “The thing that ultimately killed him is that Disney knew Jurassic Park was doing very well, and they knew it was going to be done digitally. They thought, 'Well, maybe, we should wait until we can do it digitally. '”In late 1994, Walt Disney Feature Animation began development on the project and began shooting various tests, placing computer-generated characters in miniature model backdrops. The idea of ​​using computer-generated backgrounds was considered, but rejected after the first proof-of-concept animation test was completed in March 1996. Ultimately, the filmmakers decided to take the unprecedented path of combine live-action scenery with computer-generated character animation. The filmmakers then turned to then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner about not knowing how much the project would cost or how long it would take to finish, but that they could have completed it completely. Trusting the directors, Eisner decided to give the project the green light. However, at his insistence, it was decided early on that the dinosaurs would talk during the film. To accommodate this change, Aladar would be given lips in contrast to the real iguanodons who had duck bills.

George Scribner was selected as a director and later partnered with Ralph Zondag as a co-director. Storyboard artist Floyd Norman said Scribner envisioned the film “more than just a fight for survival. He wanted this dinosaur movie to have elements of fun and humor… Our director wanted to explore the fun elements of dinosaurs, such as their size, shape and texture. George also knew that since dinosaurs come in all sizes, what wacky relationships could I come up with? What funny situations could plague a creature of such enormous size? Scribner left the project to work at Walt Disney Imagineering and Eric Leighton was named co-director. The new script had an Iguanodon named Noah as the protagonist who wandered with his grandparents and a fellow lemur named Adam, and a group of Carnotaurus and a rival Iguanodon named Cain who played the antagonists. The story was about Noah, who had the ability to see visions of the future, predicting the arrival of an asteroid and struggling to lead a pack of other dinosaurs to safety. Later in production, Noah, Cain and Adam were renamed Aladar, Kron and Zini, and some aspects of the story were further modified in what was later seen in the final product.

Technical data

Original title Dinosaur
Original language English
Country of Production United States of America
Year 2000
Duration 82 min
Relationship 1,85:1
Gender animation, adventure
Regia Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton
Subject Walon Green, Thom Enriquez, John Harrison, Robert Nelson Jacobs, Ralph Zondag
Film script John Harrison, Robert Nelson Jacobs
Producer Pam Marsden
Production house Walt Disney Pictures, The Secret Lab
Distribution in Italian Buena Vista International Italy
Editor H. Lee Peterson
Special effects Neil Eskuri
Music James Newton Howard
scenography Walter P. Martishius
Art director Cristy Maltese
character design Ricardo F. Delgado, Ian S. Gooding, Mark Hallett, Doug Henderson, David Krentz
Entertainers Mark Anthony Austin, Trey Thomas, Tom Roth, Bill Fletcher, Larry White, Eamonn Butler, Joel Fletcher, Dick Zondag, Mike Belzer, Gregory William Griffith, Atsushi Sato

Original voice actors

DB Sweeney: Aladar
Alfre Woodard: Plyo
Ossie Davis: Yar
Max CasellaZini
Hayden PanettiereSuri
Samuel E. Wright: Kron
Julianna Margulies as Neera
Peter SiragusaBruton
Joan Plowright: Baylene
Della Reese: Eema

Italian voice actors

Daniele Liotti: Aladar
Angiola Baggi as Plio
Sergio Fiorentini: Yar
Francesco Pezzulli: Zini
Veronica Puccio: Suri
Honored Glauco: Kron
Alessia Marcuzzi: Neera
Massimo Corvo: Bruton
Isa Bellini: Baylene
Germana Dominici: Eema

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_(film)