《晨练》——由一只散步的鸡引发的思考

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Grant Orchard, the director, and Sue Goffe, the producer, of the short animation "A Morning Stroll", a clever meditation across a century on a simple idea. A kind of "why did the chicken cross the road" theme. Their short animation is up against four others at the Kodak Theatre this weekend. As they prepared for the ceremony, I spoke to them in Los Angeles. The film's inspiration came from a Paul Auster edited collection of stories "True Tales of American Life":
"There's a very, very short paragraph in there about a woman who sees a chicken walk down a street and then go up some steps and knock on a door and then is let in. And you never know who had let this chicken in and you never know why this chicken wants to go for a walk or how they've trained this chicken to go for a walk and knock on the door. So there was all these kind of questions that were unanswered and we thought 'well this is interesting, I think we might explore it'. It felt like an urban myth and urban myths always get exaggerated in their retelling and we thought we could explore the subtle differences and at that point we didn't see it as a story that spanned over 100 years. It wasn't really a story at all; it was more of a kind of animation experiment."由格兰特·奥查德导演，苏格非制片的短片动画《晨练》，是一个简单想法做出跨世纪思考的电影。主题是“为什么鸡会过马路”。这部动画和另外四部奥斯卡动画短片将在周末于柯达剧院角逐“最佳动画短片。在当他们准备典礼的时候，我在洛杉矶采访他们。这部电影的灵感来自于保尔•奥斯塔（Paul Auster）编辑的一本集子：美国生活真事。
这是一个非常非常短的片段叙述一个女人看见一只鸡在街上走，然后鸡走上楼梯敲门，敲完门后就进了家门。你永远不知道是谁让这只鸡走进家门。你永远也不会知道为什么这只鸡会想出来散步，又或者是鸡的主人是怎么训练这只鸡去散步和敲门的。像这些问题都是没有被解答的。然后我们就会觉得“哇，这真的非常有趣。”我认为我们可能会探索出答案。我们认为这是一个都市神话。都市神话通常会在翻拍的时候被夸大其词，我们觉得我们能够探索出原版神话和翻拍电影他们其中细微的不同之处，在当下我们不会觉得这是一个故事在跨越了100年之后。这部动画说的根本不是一个故事。它更多的像是一个新动画的尝试。