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...time it takes to get his notoriously painstaking projects (including his ongoing Sydney house renovations) off the ground. So in 2003, when Miller announced that following the stalling of his fourth Mad Max film, in part because of the war in Iraq, his next project would be an animated penguin musical, to be made in Australia with a production house relatively new to the game, Pixar must have rubbed its hands with glee. Reading the Happy Feet script for the first time, Szubanski became as fluttery as Esme Cordelia Hoggett, her farmer's wife from Babe: "You're going...
...audacious as a movie full of penguins seemed, Hollywood animators had been putting wildlife through the hoops since the days of the Road Runner and Pep? Le Pew, just after World War II. Perhaps not coincidentally, artist Chuck Jones was a particular favorite of the young George Miliotis, growing up the son of Greek immigrants in the town of Chinchilla, Queensland. But when it came time for Miller to concoct his first purely animated feature half a century later, the greatest inspiration came not from Warner Bros. but from wildlife documentaries. Tickled by the fact that Antarctica's emperor penguins...
...cinematic touchstone. "The composite hero of the monomyth is a personage of exceptional gifts," wrote Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. "Frequently he is honored by his society, frequently unrecognized or disdained." From misfit Max, to a piglet who thinks he's a sheep, and a penguin who can't express himself through song, only dance, the stories remain essentially the same. "There's no difference between Happy Feet, Babe and Mad Max," Miller insists...
...course he wants you to spot): in “Ain’t Talkin’’ his line “in the last outback at the world’s end” comes from Ovid’s Black Sea Letters, 2.7.66 (Penguin trans., Peter Green) “I’m in the last outback, at the world’s end (ultima me tellus, ulltimus orbis habet). As for the album, here’s my choice of best songs...
Correction: The original version of this story incorrectly identified the publisher of Thomas Pynchon's new novel Against the Day as Penguin. It is in fact Penguin Press...