00:00Thank you for this huge emotional journey and this huge cry, it was very satisfying, so many of the Disney animated masterpieces that have been remade in live action have undergone a re-adaptation to make them more current.
00:24In the case of Little Stitch, the meaning of the film has never changed, in my opinion, because the original is truly universal and always valid.
00:38So what was the most complicated part to this transition to live action?
00:43Yeah, I think you're right, and I think we saw that opportunity as well.
00:47The original felt it was such a unique film for Disney to have made at the time, it didn't look like the other movies.
00:54And unlike their, you know, the movies about princesses and the fairy tale kingdoms, this was a normal Hawaiian film, not even normal, but pretty messy and rough around the edges, you know, Hawaiian story about a normal humans living in contemporary society.
01:12And so, and also sort of just the style of Chris Sanders' art, but also the storytelling and the characters felt like, it almost felt like a live action movie.
01:22Like these were flawed, messy characters, and there was such an authenticity to them that it really appealed to us as being a really great candidate for a live action movie.
01:33Maybe something that would afford so many great opportunities to tell a really rich emotional tale that is maybe more salient today than it even was when it came out, in terms of the themes of your found family and showing up for community and all those things, yeah.
01:52Yeah.
01:52I think that's the most difficult thing.
01:54I mean, the most difficult thing, there's a number of levels to it, but like, obviously, really nailing the essence of Stitch and these characters that are so iconic at this point.
02:07I think it's a huge responsibility and a huge challenge, and we never wanted to just kind of like one-to-one graft the old movie into a live action setting.
02:18We wanted to, because they're two different art forms that have different strengths and weaknesses, we wanted to take the animated film and inspect each part and figure out, well, what makes it work in an animated film?
02:30And what is the sort of version that rhymes with that that can exist in a live action movie?
02:35So I think that that was, you know, a process that continued from start to finish and always required just a lot of exploration and thought and being honest with ourselves and, you know, and knowing when we hadn't hit the mark.
02:54Yeah.
02:54And because the heart of Lilo Stitch is Oana and the concept of a family by choice.
03:04Yeah.
03:04And what is your Oana in real life?
03:08Oh, wow.
03:08That's a great question.
03:09We haven't gotten that one.
03:12I mean, I love my family, my biological family as well.
03:16They're part of my found family.
03:17But, you know, I think the community of, like, filmmakers and artists and producers and people that you, you know, you really are kind of in the trenches with making movies as you get so bonded to them.
03:32And, yeah, I have people that I've met making movies that I would consider as close a family member as anyone in my birth family.
03:41And for Jonathan?
03:42I mean, I think we're always finding and sort of refinding family in life, you know.
03:47So you have, you know, my parents, my sister that I was born with.
03:50But then you get married and now I have a family of my own.
03:53I have a nine-year-old and a five-year-old.
03:54You sort of, this is the family you've sort of made.
03:56And then, as you said, there is a sort of community of artists.
03:59And we're sort of lucky with this job that each movie does become its own family.
04:03And you have these people that you still text with from seven years ago on another movie that you were so in it together.
04:10And you have this sort of shared creative experience.
04:12So I think we all find it everywhere in life constantly.
04:16And I think it's constantly changing, too.
04:18And I think that's the thing that's really hard about it sometimes.
04:20And I think where the message of the movie hopefully gets people through those hard times when things do change.
04:26And I think we wanted to nuance the message of Ohana in the movie because we have that moment in the kitchen where Nani says to Lilo, yeah, but we were left behind.
04:34You know, and it sort of puts that idea under sort of further examination of, like, well, you're right.
04:39You know, you lost something.
04:40Like, the grief isn't going to change.
04:42But if you're open to it, the sort of love and family can expand around that.
04:46And sort of that's never going to go away, but you just have to be open to sort of a broader family coming in.
04:51And that's where I think the movie ends in such a beautiful way.
04:55Thank you very much.
04:56Thank you for this adventure.
04:58So sweet.
04:58Thank you.
04:59Thank you so much.
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