Monday 4 February 2013

Changing my story

When I was about thirteen years old I had a great admiration for physical comics like Gerry Lewis and Norman Wisdom.  I just wanted to be them. I still had to graduate from watching cartoons, and, one day when I grow up; maybe I will.

Do you remember in "Who framed Roger Rabbit" when the opening cartoon grinds to a halt and the director storms onto the set to yell at the co-star.  I love that moment.  I would still like to believe that animations were made that way. Sadly the last film I saw before discovering the terribly boring truth was the Jungle Book in 1979.  Still, this boy can dream, can't he?



An old memory Inspired by a Swedish children's book ignited Kelvin in my mind.  So the project began production some fourteen months ago.  It's a number of anecdotes: silly things that young people do - or want to do.  It's an opportunity to turn myself into that physical comic character that I've always wanted to be.  Everything in the film genuinely happened, and rather embarrassingly, it really happened to me.  Just not all in the same order or for the same reasons. There are people out there who remember the stories and I expect to come under fire for rewriting the classics. That's just how movies are made...