{"id":8980,"date":"2016-03-23T04:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/03\/23\/the-evolution-of-zootopia\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T04:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T04:23:36","slug":"the-evolution-of-zootopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/03\/23\/the-evolution-of-zootopia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Zootopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theamazingsallyhogan.tumblr.com\/post\/141344353236\">theamazingsallyhogan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of posts going around analyzing Zootopia,<br \/>\ntrying to dissect and scrutinize the message. To help understand and analyze<br \/>\nthe work, it\u2019s important to understand the incredibly roundabout way the movie<br \/>\ncame to be. \u00a0The creators didn\u2019t start<br \/>\nout saying \u201clet\u2019s make a socially minded movie about prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It all started when the directors of Tangled, Byron Howard and<br \/>\nNathan Greno, were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/zootopia-directors-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">pitching movie ideas<\/a> to John Lasseter, the chief creative<br \/>\nofficer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation. As Howard (who would go on to direct the movie) explained <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nNathan Greno and I, right after we finished \u201cTangled,\u201d we pitched the<br \/>\nbeginnings of what this movie became. We had about six ideas and the one<br \/>\n thing that almost all these ideas had in common\u2026 one was a space movie<br \/>\nand it was called \u201cPug, The Bounty Hunter\u201d \u2026 One was called \u201cThe Island Of Dr. Meow,\u201d which<br \/>\nwas a sort of cheesy B movie version, like a Roger Korman film from the<br \/>\n1960, where teenagers went to this island and there was this six-foot<br \/>\ntall cat that was turning these people into animals. And, John saw that a<br \/>\n lot of these films had these anthropomorphic animals in common from<br \/>\nwhat I did with the others. And he said, \u201cI will do anything to support a<br \/>\n film that features animals running in tiny clothing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/9789bb90ff868eeaf408fbabe95b9b3f\/tumblr_inline_o44bzqAjEr1rs3eqa_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>However, while Lasseter wanted to build on Disney classics like Robin Hood and The Jungle Book, he added a caveat: they needed to make the movie different from any other \u201canimal\u201d movie that had gone before.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theamazingsallyhogan.tumblr.com\/post\/141344353236\/the-evolution-of-zootopia\" class=\"tmblr-truncated-link read_more\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theamazingsallyhogan: There\u2019s a lot of posts going around analyzing Zootopia, trying to dissect and scrutinize the message. To help understand and analyze the work, it\u2019s important to understand the incredibly roundabout way the movie came to be. \u00a0The creators didn\u2019t start out saying \u201clet\u2019s make a socially minded movie about prejudice.\u201d It all started when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/03\/23\/the-evolution-of-zootopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Evolution of Zootopia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3296,818],"class_list":["post-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-omg-so-good","tag-zootopia","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}