How to make a successful animation flick? A large dollop of imagination, two scoops of humor and a relatively sarcastic view of the world at large. And don't forget to have fun and improvise while poking fun at virtually everyone (not forgetting Al Gore).
Got to admit, when you’ve directed, or at least co-directed, the
biggest money-making animated movie of all time, topping yourself isn’t
exactly the easiest thing to do. Such is the case of Conrad Vernon. No
doubt he knew he had a hit when he started calling the shots on Shrek 2. No one would have guessed the film would eventually go on to make nearly a $1 billion worldwide. Still, as proven in his interview earlier this week, Vernon was smart enough to not go on to do Shrek the 3rd.
Instead he decided to give his properly warped love of science fiction
monster movies of the 50s the treatment they deserved. He and fellow
director Rob Letterman plopped Ed Wood Jr., Roger Corman, Mars Attacks!
(both the original trading cards and the Tim Burton movie) and just
about everything psychotronic since then into an atom smasher. From
there, the now established Dreamworks formula of name stars and a
relatively sarcastic view of the world at large were applied. |
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