00:16I love swords, so I want to know everything about your dragon sword. How did you have the idea? Tell
00:26me everything
00:28Yeah, the sword is based on the, obviously the film is based on South, or inspired by Southeast Asian cultures,
00:36and thusly we wanted to make sure the weaponry that we have also came from those regions, and we found
00:42a blade called the crease, which is a kind of a sacred spiritual blade that exists in the Philippines, in
00:48Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and we wanted to base the blade's look on that, but of course we know that
00:55we're doing a fantasy,
00:56we need to do something iconic, so we added an element to it that made it a fantasy element, so
01:00it could become a grappling hook, and a whip, and all those things, to kind of make it basically our
01:05version, you know, our movie's lightsaber, or Excalibur, like our iconic weapon, that everyone can kind of geek over, and
01:12become nerds like ourselves.
01:16You did a great job, you did a great job, I want one too, it's amazing, and in the movie,
01:23it said that sometimes you have to take the first step, even if you're not ready, it's difficult, so how
01:32can we do it? How can we find the courage to do the first step?
01:38I think something that hopefully the movie does, is that it creates empathy, and it means that, you know, even
01:48though you may be dealing with someone whose experience may be very different from yours, and whose point of view
01:53may be very different from yours,
01:55trying to see the world through someone else's eyes, trying to understand what someone else may be going through, and
02:00knowing that even though you may not have that exact same experience,
02:04you can probably relate on a lot of human levels.
02:10I think that's probably one of the first steps that you can take, rather than just saying, oh, that person
02:16thinks different from me, or oh, that person, and I disagree on all these issues, which may be true, I
02:24think it's more of like, what, in addition to that, what do we have in common?
02:28Where can we level? How can we take the first step to try and understand each other a little bit
02:33better?
02:33And hopefully that, you know, unfolds into a more fruitful relationship.
02:41I love how you describe every character with food. How important was it? How important is food in your movie?
02:53It's extremely important. We were looking for a way to kind of visualize trust, because it's kind of, you know,
03:00it can be a bit of an abstract concept.
03:02So this idea of food gave us that kind of visual connection to an idea.
03:09And generally, food is, if you think about it, you know, it's a place where everybody comes together and shares
03:16something.
03:16And so it sort of became the perfect metaphor for us to sort of track trust in the movie.
03:23And, you know, it was very interesting when we rolled that out to our storyboard artists, because everybody got so
03:31excited to draw food.
03:33Like, if you think about all the things that our story artists, you know, draw in this movie and other
03:38movies, it runs the gamut, you know.
03:41But everybody was so, I've never seen more beautiful drawings of food in my life than what the story artists
03:47did.
03:47They just seemed to really embrace that idea and help us weave it into the film.
03:55Thank you so much. You did an amazing job. I love the movie. Bye.
04:03I'm transformed.
04:04I draghi riescono a farlo?
04:06I'm so close to my head.
04:08I'll digerir in a moment.
04:10Bye.
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