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[Oersted]

Click the link for the trailer

http://www.telerama.fr/festival-de-...ge-co-produit-par-le-studio-ghibli,142359.php

http://youtu.be/e38pQOFMPlU

The Red Turtle is an upcoming French-Japanese animated film directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit. It tells the story of a man who tries to escape from a desert island and battles a giant turtle. The film is without dialogue. It is the director's first feature film.

The film was produced by Why Not Productions and Wild Bunch in association with Studio Ghibli. According to Vincent Maraval, head of Wild Bunch, he visited Studio Ghibli in Japan in 2008 and met with Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki showed him the short film Father and Daughter and asked him to find its director, Michaël Dudok de Wit, with the prospect of co-producing a feature film. Wild Bunch approached Dudok de Wit in London and convinced him to take on the project. The screenplay was written by Dudok de Wit and Pascale Ferran.

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As usual, lock if old

 

[Holyoneturtle]

Looks really good cant wait to see it.

 

[Kyuur]

Looks really good cant wait to see it.

Seriously though, looks great from the gifs. Will watch the trailer later.

Edit: Impressive sense of scale. Just watching the trailer was heart-wrenching towards the end.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

wauuwwwww! that looks cool:O

 

[nin1000]

this is beautiful !

 

[massoluk]

Looks great.

The chick is totally the turtle

 

[Dead Prince]

Looks great.

The chick is totally the turtle

ponyo turned turtle

 

[Xun]

Beautiful, although that's hardly surprising.

 

[HMD]

Looks good, I hope it's not too preachy.

 

[SilentRacoon]

Looks incredible, love the simple yet stylish look it has going for it.

Shame my local theater probably won't play it, sucks I will have to wait for a digital release.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

I was interested until I read that it will have no dialogue. A shame considering it looks gorgeous.

 

[HStallion]

I was interested until I read that it will have no dialogue. A shame considering it looks gorgeous.

Do movies inherently need dialogue though? The movie looks visually stunning from the small sample in the trailer and looks to tell a story in a way only cinema can.

 

[Mike M]

The chick is totally the turtle

Clearly.

Do movies inherently need dialogue though?

Not inherent to the medium, but any movie without dialogue that depicts more than one person interacting with one another would come across as incredibly contrived. People talk to each other.

 

[HStallion]

Clearly.



Not inherent to the medium, but any movie without dialogue that depicts more than one person interacting with one another would come across as incredibly contrived. People talk to each other.

I'd consider it refreshing considering 99.9999% of movies sport dialogue and its not like speaking characters doesn't make them or their plots for a good portion of movies from being any less contrived to work on the big screen. Then again some of my favorite movies have little to no dialogue or long stretches without like Baraka and 2001 or the opening from There Will Be Blood but I believe cinema can "speak" without having to actually use words. That was more my original point as this looks like a movie keen on using the strengths of movies to its full advantage to tell a story.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Looks incredible

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Can someone explain why so many people respond with this? It's used in a thousand different scenarios so I can never pinpoint the meaning.

OT: this looks really cool. No dialogue is an interesting decision, but certainly no reason for me to dismiss it. However it does turn off a larger audience, but maybe they were never being targeted to begin with.

 

[Calidor]

Looks great.

The chick is totally the turtle

k, thanks for spoiling the movie

 

[Xe4]

Damn Orested, you're on point with the news! Just saw the trailer, looks amazing which isn't surprising, tells me a few things about the story that I didn't know before.

My one concern is the turtle, which is CGI won't mesh well with the 2D animation around it. I'll have to see the actual movie or more trailers to confirm or deny that though.

Still looks amazing and I can't wait for the next trailer.

Edit: anyone who things films without diolague are contrived, I would highly recommend watching L'illusionniste (or The Illusionist) by Sylvian Chomet, with is also without diolague, but tells one of the best stories in an animated medium.

 

[matmanx1]

The animation and use of color is spectacular. I'd like to watch this movie.

 

[exmachina64]

Tentatively excited.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Very good

 

[vetrox]

The shot with the turtle screams Moebius to me. I'll have to watch this.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Working link: https://youtu.be/y3uYequDQqc

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Another movie that looks amazing that I'll never get to see because we never get these arthouse animated films around here.

Fuck.

 

[overcast]

Looks wonderful my god.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

So got linked to this through another thread...

Man that animation messes with my head, though its gorgeously fluid. Kinda looks like the artstyle borrows from Tin-Tin, or is there a broader influence that I don't know of?

 

[Oersted]

So got linked to this through another thread...

Man that animation messes with my head, though its gorgeously fluid. Kinda looks like the artstyle borrows from Tin-Tin, or is there a broader influence that I don't know of?

It is the ligne claire style, pionereed by Herge, yes. It influences european and especially french drawing alot.

Most recent cinematic example

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=198566492#post198566492