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A Bonus Material Feature from The Road To El Dorado 2001 DVD Australia
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00:10The legend of a lost city of gold, and the two men brave enough to find it.
00:24Nice.
00:26I am Miguel.
00:30And I am Tullio.
00:33And they call us Miguel and Tullio.
00:37Seven!
00:39From DreamWorks Pictures, two friends on an unforgettable journey, to the magnificent lost city of gold.
00:47El Donato.
00:49They are bound for excitement, romance, and danger.
00:55Move! Move!
00:57Starring Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Percy Perez, Armand Asante, Edward James Olmos, and featuring six new songs from Elton John,
01:07Tim Rice, and Hans Zimmer.
01:09The Oscar-winning team from The Lion King, The Road to El Dorado.
01:20DreamWorks Pictures, a new comedy adventure ghost where no animated movie has gone before.
01:25Blazing a trail from 16th century Spain to the new world and beyond, to the legendary lost city of gold.
01:31Feeding away are a couple of petty suits bound for gold and glory, played by Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline.
01:37I do the voice for a character named Tullio.
01:40And my partner in crime, best friend, is Miguel.
01:45Miguel and Tullio.
01:47You are Miguel, mighty and powerful gods.
01:51Miguel and Tullio are two, I suppose you could call them soldiers of fortune.
01:56You might call them rogues, lovable rogues, charming rogues, scam artists.
02:01Seven!
02:02All right!
02:03Yes!
02:04He's the idealist, the dreamer.
02:08Tullio enjoys deflating Miguel's optimism and idealism.
02:12And I'm the more earthbound, cynical, realist.
02:18It really is the map to El Dorado!
02:22You drank the seawater, didn't you?
02:24Well, come on!
02:25So together, we form one entire pathway.
02:28We find a city of gold, we take the gold, then we go back to Spain.
02:35And buy Spain!
02:36Yeah!
02:37What always occurred to me is, is that why couldn't we actually make a movie that is about the sort
02:42of sidekick characters?
02:44You know, they're usually the dysfunctional losers, you know, usually a bit scandalous characters and stuff.
02:51And, you know, to me, it's just always thought, well, wouldn't it be a lot of fun if we actually
02:54took those two guys and put them at the center of a movie and set them off on some big
02:59adventure, which has really never been done in an animated story before.
03:06Despite the fact that they're these kind of crooks or con artists, they do the right thing in almost every
03:14situation.
03:15Here's an order.
03:17Take the day off!
03:18They end up one day in Spain, playing a crap game with loaded dice, of course, and Miguel wants to
03:26win this map.
03:28And we don't know if it's real or not.
03:29Look!
03:30El Dorado!
03:32City of gold!
03:33But because it's a, you know, a comedy adventure, it isn't as easy as following a map.
03:42Holy shit!
03:43Together, the schemer and the dreamer wind up as unwitting stowaways on the ship of the Spanish conquistador, Cortez.
03:50And when we put into Cuba to resupply, God willing, you will be flogged some more.
03:56All right!
03:57Cuba!
03:58Miguel and Tulio, who, through a series of fortuitous mishaps, end up on the steps of El Dorado, see this
04:04as the greatest opportunity to pull off the greatest scam of their lives.
04:08Along the way, they meet up with Chell, a street-saddy native, and these unlikely heroes meet their match in
04:15a very unlikely heroine.
04:17Hello!
04:17Ah!
04:18God!
04:20She's a barrel of laugh.
04:22She loves life, and yet she's frustrated with life.
04:24She's very sassy, and she's opinionated.
04:27She's tough, and she's sensitive.
04:30She's shy, and she's extremely forward.
04:32She's very bit as clever, and manipulative, and as smart, and as devious as they are.
04:40What's he gonna think if he finds one of the gods like this with me?
04:44Lucky God.
04:45The love scenes were very, very funny.
04:47We wanted them to be very unconventional.
04:49Tulio is the one who's just super cautious, and yet he is so attracted to her that he almost can't
04:56stand it.
04:56And she knows it, and where she plays on it, she's attracted to him, too.
05:00I'm not really sure I trust you.
05:03Hmm, I'm not really asking you to trust me.
05:06Am I?
05:09El Tivo is wonderful.
05:10He is arguably my favorite character in the movie.
05:13He's just this incredibly snobby, pampered warhorse.
05:21Throughout the course of the story, he's just a great counterpoint to a lot of the nonsense that goes on
05:26with the yelling to the El Fetch.
05:32He's sort of like the only Fabio of horses.
05:35The only favorite getting back to the boat, say aye.
05:37Aye!
05:37Aye!
05:39Zechel Kahn, who is the high priest of the city, has predicted gods will come and will shift the power
05:45from the existing chief Tarabon to him.
05:47Citizens!
05:49Did I not predict that the gods would come to us?
05:52He, in a way, is a very threatening, dark, cunning, panther-like character.
06:05He's humorous, and he's sadistic, he's evil, but he's also very joyful about what he gets to do, so he's
06:15a complex bad guy.
06:18The history of the age of the Jaguar will be written in blood.
06:22Blood!
06:23Oh, right.
06:33On guard!
06:34On guard yourself!
06:35On guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard,
06:41on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard,
06:42on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard,
06:43on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard, on guard.
07:04actors who also love to break out and be completely nuts you know every chance they can get
07:13they both have incredible senses of humor i mean you know ken is incredibly dry and very witty and
07:20unbelievably fast and kevin you know he's just he's just a natural comedian
07:26he's very eccentric and nervous and funny oh my god yeah he's funny and our plan calls for a boat
07:34do you uh happen to have one with him we will keep back out tomorrow michelle if i believed in
07:40fate i
07:40wouldn't be playing with loaded dice julio is always steaming he's always figuring out the angle
07:47trying to and he's a great sort of bluffer he gave me loaded nuts he's fun because life for him
07:55is
07:55just a giant improvisation i will give you the honor of a quick and painless
08:05he's got an amazing sense of humor um i mean whatever you gave him whatever line that you
08:11gave him to say he came up with at least a half a dozen variations of it
08:22because it is a comedy about two buddies we decided and it's unusual in animation to actually
08:28have them record together you fight like my sister there was so much chemistry about putting them
08:35together we got so many wonderful things when we put them in the room together that it was actually
08:40a bit of a technical challenge i fought your sister that's a compliment blackguard
08:45oh i'll be loquacious to a fault loquacious who's ever heard of loquacious before only ken would know
08:51loquacious i will it will be loquacious to a fault
08:55part of the enjoyment of it is seeing these guys interact with each other
08:59i think everyone was very keen that that quality uh should be more than just scripted and could have
09:06a sort of improvised knockabout feel kevin and i enjoyed doing that very much we've both got a
09:11very chilly offy side to each of us so in the context of something like this nice to be able
09:17to
09:17indulge that a bit ladies and gentlemen we've decided it's a draw thank you all for coming
09:22you've been great see you soon can't product would give us pretty much every version of any line that
09:28we could ever need that's the beauty and the magic that came about putting these two guys together so
09:34it was it was actually a technical challenge for us to do and uh and in many ways in terms
09:39of what we
09:39got in the film well worth the effort
09:44oh and of course you know all about sheep baba well leave it in the hands of the gods
09:50yee-haw rosie is um so funny and we wondered why she wasn't a stand-up comedian and her delivery
09:59and we were just all howling crying with laughter she also was able to bring that you know that spirit
10:06to her performance she's a 16th century uh pre-columbian native with a brooklyn accent
10:14my only wish is to serve the gods it was all very real to her and again i think what
10:21that
10:22leads to the animation is just you know it's worth its weight in gold i think you're the only ones
10:28who do you know better things but sure rosie perez is simply just one of the funniest people funniest
10:34voices you know she's hysterical and she talks really really fast and she has her own speech
10:40pattern
10:47and to capture that in animation you know that's we live for that you know it's just our animators
10:52dream come true and she's sexy and she's beautiful and she's aggressive and she's ambitious and she's
11:01crazy it's like you get to be in this little tiny room well which really won't touch big but um
11:08you
11:09know it's uh you're in this room you're by yourself and you really get to use your imagination and express
11:14that alter ego that you know you know you can't really go there in in another form and so i
11:20just i
11:20love it i really really love doing this
11:31i'm not for cool i'm not to take over
11:35armin asante is the most violent thunderstorm you've ever lived in
11:40sacrifice
11:44armin can walk that fine line between a lethal killer
11:49no your indifference has endangered the city not enough and the time has come for someone to act
11:58and uh just sort of amusing uh uh comedic villain these people will not respect you if they do not
12:07fear
12:07you and of course will make them fear us finally reconnecting he's very intense actor and uh when
12:19he looks at you in the eye in the eyes it's very theatrical work it's in a way i would
12:26say it's like
12:27doing a play a very highly theatricalized play now do you wish to have your victims bound or not or
12:34would
12:34before them free range it's my first animated film and i find it to be exciting i am chief
12:46eddie has a wonderful warm voice make no mistake zickle gun i am the ruler of the city and i
12:54think one
12:54of the things that we really found in listening to his tracks is that you know the chief is the
12:58heart and soul in the city he represents the people if you wish to stay you only need to say
13:06so
13:06really you're dealing with the entire character and the building of the character but it's done by
13:13your voice then the animators come across and they look at you as you're working and they start to
13:19develop this animated character when the story starts uh i'm weighing in at about 310 pounds by the time
13:27the movie finishes i'm weighing in about maybe 25 the road to el dorado features music from the most
13:51successful musical team in the history of animation elton john tim rice and han simmer working together
13:58for the first time since the lion king this was the success of the lion king i wanted to do
14:02another
14:02animation film and so jeffrey suggested this so it's been in the pipeline for a long time you know i
14:08picked up the phone and called three of them and said hey would you all let's let's do it again
14:13and
14:13and as i say you know that was a once a lifetime opportunity you know it's happened twice so how
14:20lucky can you can you get
14:33this legendary collaboration continues with six original songs performed by elton john
14:39and lyrics by academy award-winning lyricist tim rice and a lot of the songs were written on either
14:47side of the atlantic i would be in london and he'd be in atlanta so i would write a lyric
14:52in london fax it
14:53to atlanta and then a couple days they try to get a cd back of elton singing it which is
14:59very exciting and then that
15:01song will be given to hans who will do a completely different version of it for the film and i
15:06don't even
15:06talk to hans about it i trust him well enough he's brilliant enough to know that i don't need to
15:09share what he does he just takes it and does a different version which is great this is fast
15:14coming in it could be important oh my goodness oh it's a note from 10 saying don't be so boring
15:20on
15:20that that's great i mean hans is one of the great film composers and album of course is a legend
15:28anyway
15:28i think it's great to see the three of them together after working together on lion king and i just
15:35see a
15:35great energy between them that has created some beautiful well i'm awestruck personally i mean
15:42you know i'm just like i can't believe this to watch them work to see what they come up with
15:48is gorgeous
15:49his voice is amazing i mean it's such an image he has it's it's incredible and you have no idea
15:55how
15:56hard it is for anybody else to try to even get close in fact it's really impossible elton john collaborated
16:02with grammy winning producer patrick leonard to produce an album of songs from and inspired by the
16:07film
16:12i think it's nice to have the inspiration it's nice to have something to draw from and it's
16:15also nice to have something to reference
16:20i think probably the best song in the whole movie is friends never say goodbye
16:23i think that's the finest song on the whole album it's a killer song
16:27i think it was always our favorite music music is the one that certainly defines um
16:35art to the characters which is you know it really speaks to the heart of what is their journey about
16:42which is you get all the gold and all the glory um but ultimately the thing that means more than
16:47anything else is going to affect you through the magic of animation elton john was transported into
17:03the world of el dorado for the film's music video someday out of the blue what we do is we
17:10shoot him
17:10against a green screen because he's actually starting off already in an animated world as live action
17:15elton and then he morphs into the animated elton and then we take it from there
17:24i thought it was a great idea and i saw the little animated me i thought well this is easy
17:27for
17:28me and it's also it's great i mean i just have never been animated in a video before everybody knows
17:35elton's face this is where i got a lot of pictures on my wall here to look at
17:40to be sure that every drawing is going to look like elton we studied elton's performances
17:45very very intensely and we found out that elton um all his performances uh i mean he's got very
17:50expressive eyebrows so when you see the music video you'll actually see that you know that's
17:55most of his acting and in his eyebrows
17:59favorite video like this i do because he's so happy
18:09all songs in the road to el dorado are performed by elton john with the exception of it's tough to
18:15be
18:26they are both brilliant actors and a song like this a comic song with a lot of rhythm and
18:33and quite a lot of words i think it's important
18:37to have it beautifully acted, almost as important as having it sung,
18:40but they do get the tune, and the tune is a pretty good tune.
18:43Well, the singing session between Kevin and Kenneth,
18:45I'm sure will go down as, you know, one of the more humiliating moments
18:49in their respective careers.
18:53Because, you know, it's so...
18:54Well, first of all, they're actually both pretty good singers.
19:01Pretty good singers are great,
19:02so you actually have to try and sing an Elton John song.
19:07Let the thrill we play,
19:09Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
19:13the thrill we play.
19:16We have that R-T-A-T.
19:19You know, it's not R-T, it's on the internet.
19:21It's just that confidence.
19:23You're like a football coach.
19:26You're giving speeches.
19:28You can do it, you can do it.
19:30And trying to make it so that they have fun
19:32and that they have space to have fun.
19:34It's great to be a god!
19:41Did I say more?
19:44Yes, who is the next one?
19:47Hans was great. He was great. He was very encouraging.
19:50Funny. He was very funny.
19:52And a real taskmaster, too.
19:54Sing until you hear the tape stop.
19:57I thought I could do 5,000 takes of it.
20:04You're singing harmony, too.
20:07Did it again, and again, and again.
20:09Until they twiddled their little dials, until we were in tune.
20:14Now you'd say, that's going, that was really good.
20:17It could, there's one note.
20:19I wrote down.
20:21Sorry. Sorry, love.
20:23Just a tiny minute of the tune in.
20:25It was, you know, it was frustrating. It was hard.
20:35They were great sports. I mean, they really were great sports.
20:38It just went to work.
20:39Maybe I have to be on the wrong end.
20:42I have to be on the wrong end.
20:43I have to be on the wrong end.
20:45I have to be on the wrong end.
20:57I have to be on the wrong end.
21:00I have to be on the wrong end.
21:02I have to be on the wrong end.
21:04I have to be on the wrong end.
21:05Conceptualizing the fantastic visual style of the Maya-inspired world of El Dorado began,
21:10when the film's creative team traveled to the lush jungles and towering ancient temples of Central America.
21:16We took a fantastic whirlwind trip to Mexico.
21:20Saw a number of sights.
21:22It was an incredibly valuable trip.
21:25The artists had some time to sketch, which of course helped our production design team come make some decisions about,
21:32you know, what the city of El Dorado would look like.
21:34The blue, the red, yellow, the original color.
21:37It is a beautiful, beautiful culture that was extremely colorful.
21:42And we recreated what must have existed then.
21:46What we wanted to do in this movie, though, was to sort of take inspiration from that
21:50and just blow it out bigger than life.
21:53Because truly, this is meant to be Shangri-La.
21:57It is like nothing you've ever seen, I believe, in animation before.
22:12The special effects in the movie, which are huge.
22:16You know, we crash these gates.
22:17We blow up this.
22:18We got this jaguar that comes to life.
22:20And, you know, we put every kind of bell and whistle that, you know, is in our arsenal these days,
22:26just to make this as fun and entertaining and a big adventure.
22:29Crafting the film took hundreds of the world's best artists and animators over four years to complete.
22:34They used a combination of traditional animation techniques and cutting-edge computer-based technology
22:40to bring the magical world of El Dorado to life.
22:433D character animation in El Dorado, I think, is something to really be proud of for the movie
22:47because they created 3D character animation with a lot more facial animation than we used to seeing.
22:53And the acting of the 3D characters is what I'm really most proud of.
23:07The artists used all the effects tools at their disposal
23:10to create some of the most eye-popping visual effects sequences ever achieved in animation.
23:25Creating water is considered to be one of the most difficult beats in all of animation.
23:31Holy circle!
23:32The most complex visual effects sequence called Crashing the Gate
23:36effects artists invented new software that allowed them to quickly and realistically animate the action of splashing water.
23:46Traditionally, to hand-draw water, which is one of the harder things to draw, we're looking at drawing every single
23:51frame.
23:52So, we came up with a system that we call Spritical that allows us to use hand-drawn animations copied
23:59onto the location of a particle system.
24:01It just really gives us a way of multiplying this hand-drawn animation a thousandfold.
24:11Dreamworks effects are this pioneered a technique that allowed them to accurately render the color spectrum of gold for the
24:18first time on film.
24:19It makes something look like gold because it's metallic.
24:23It really could have painted that in conventional animation ten years ago.
24:26What the effects crew has done is to render not only really convincing gold, but really beautiful-looking gold.
24:34Golden gold.
24:38I think that the work on the road to El Dorado is the embodiment of traditional convergence.
24:44It uses the best of the visual qualities of traditional artwork with the next steps in the evolution of digital
24:50tools to achieve images we never had before.
24:53Who's the guy?
24:54Who's the guy?
24:55You the guy, boy!
24:56You the guy!
24:57You the guy!
24:58Fine!
24:59El Dorado is meant to be just a big fun adventure comedy.
25:06That's just going for me!
25:07Who?
25:07That's just going for me!
25:09If you want my ticket, it's going to be my passport.
25:12I think this is really on the money, this film.
25:14It's a great story.
25:15El Dorado is a great subject.
25:17It's a great character, isn't it?
25:18And it's also human.
25:19And I think I see it essentially.
25:20Yes.
25:21I hope for new music.
25:22What we wanted to do in this animated movie is to be able to take our audience to someplace that
25:28we've never been to before.
25:35Here comes the night.
25:38Here comes the memories.
25:41Lost in your arms.
25:43Down in the foreign fields.
25:47Not so long ago.
25:51Seems like eternity.
25:53The sweet under news.
25:57Still come to me.
26:00Oh my, I know.
26:09Here comes the love of me.
26:15Hello, I know.
26:16I hope for you.
26:18I feel we are with you.
26:21Someday we will never forget the song they sing.
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