00:00L'Avatar came along, Lord of the Rings came along, and the technology was perfected, and we were able to
00:06do Ted in a completely lifelike way, and to use that technology in a way that it really hasn't been
00:15used to date.
00:16The Avatar technology has been used for family films, for adventure films, for science fiction films, and nobody's really used
00:24it yet for traditional character comedy, and that's kind of strange because what that technology does so well is it
00:34takes fantastical characters and makes them as realistic in movement as possible, so it seems like the perfect genre for
00:43that.
00:45So Ted is, you know, he's that classic, big-hearted, but kind of meat-headed New England guy who has
00:57a lot of love and a lot of enthusiasm and zest for life, but no self-editing mechanism, so what
01:05he says is really the first thing that pops into his mind.
01:09Growing up in New England, that was sort of a common thread. It's a really fun part of the country.
01:17The people are really warm, and they're great folks to go drinking with.
01:24They're a great bunch of people, but there's oftentimes no sense of what to say and what not to say,
01:31but it's all forgivable because their hearts are in the right place, and Ted is very much an iconic, you
01:37know, a classic Boston meathead.
01:41Ted doesn't really have to, there's no obligation for him to grow up or do anything to force himself out
01:52of the juvenile place and into adulthood.
01:55John has to do that. John cannot just languish in childishness as his teddy bear does.
02:05The movie's called Ted, but it is, if you had to pinpoint a story that really is the focal point,
02:11it's John's story, and, you know, he's the one with the conundrum.
02:20He's the one who has to find this balance between friendship and love, and, and in that sense, again, this
02:28is a, it's a movie that, it's a story that could be played out with three human characters.
02:34His, his problems and, and the challenges that he faces as he juggles his relationship with Ted and his relationship
02:43with Laurie are challenges that he would be facing if Ted was a human.
02:51She's not the hands-on-hips OU, you know, traditional comedy girlfriend. She's not that at all. She's, and part,
02:59part of that is due to the way we wrote it, but part of it is due to the fact
03:02that, that Mila is, and it was one of the reasons we chose her, she really has the ability to
03:08make sure that a character is not going to come off that way.
03:15Mark is a guy who can, who very quietly and humbly can do anything, as far as I'm concerned. He,
03:22he, we threw every type of comedy at him in this movie. We had him do, you know, subtle dialogue
03:27comedy, broad physical comedy. There's even outright drama in this movie. He plays a lot of colors, and he just
03:35does it all beautifully.
03:39Yeah, as with Family Guy, there are a lot of pop culture references in Ted. Um, it's, uh, it's chock
03:46full of them. Flash Gordon, obviously. Um, SpongeBob pops up in there, I think.
03:56Uh, airplane, of course. Big, uh, that was fun, actually, because we rebuilt the set from the bar scene of
04:03airplane, and, uh, that was a fun room to be in, because you're like, ah, gosh, I've seen this movie
04:08a hundred times, and here it is, you know, complete, exact replica.
04:16You know, there's no gratuitous sex, there's no violence, you know, there's, there's comedy violence, but that's about it. It's,
04:23it's language. And so, to me, that makes it a soft R movie. So, if you're, you know, if you're,
04:29if you've got a kid in high school, you know, I mean, my parents would have taken me to a
04:34movie like this when I was in high school.
04:36It's, it's, it's pretty, it's, if you're okay with the language, then it's fine. Because, you know, hey, they're hearing
04:42this language in the schoolyard anyway. Better they learn these words from Hollywood than in the schoolyard.
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