Season 2

037 - Nobody Said No

Chris and Mackenzie jump after a zebra and plummet down the waterfall into the world of Leo the Lion on Netflix! Having lost his mother in a zebra-hunting-waterfall accident, Leo the Lion has to face his fears and find the Heart of the Jungle. And that’s just the first two minutes! What is in the Heart of the Jungle? Are there better vegetarian movies on Netflix? How do the English subtitles help save a film? How can we fix this movie? How does a chameleon work? What makes something universally bad?
Links
The Nightmare World of Leo the Lion, Netflix’s Worst Movie http://slct.al/2bjeSDT
Common Sense Media Review http://bit.ly/2bjfhG4
Listen to It Came from the Depths of Netflix http://apple.co/2bjfdWY
The Room http://bit.ly/2bjflpt
Popeye the Movie http://bit.ly/2blyqvN
Futurama Vegetarian Lion http://bit.ly/2bS6D2L
White Elephant Gift Exchange http://bit.ly/2bm7aZi
Leo the Lion “I’m a Vegetarian” http://bit.ly/2brAejX
Leo the Lion Villain Song http://bit.ly/2bjjFur
 

036 - The Little Prince

Grab a flock of birds (seagulls?) and travel with Writers Get Animated to Asteroid B-612 as Chris and Mackenzie explore the world of Netflix’s “The Little Prince!” How do you adapt a story into a film? Where is our wall-sized life plan? Can a kid’s movie be meant for adults? How many eight year olds get to stay home alone? How is the plot of “The Little Prince” film like a boa constrictor?
Links
The Little Prince Review http://bit.ly/2bpyVoU
Little Prince Adaptations Aren’t Easy, Just Ask Orson Welles http://n.pr/2b7cOAo
Director Mark Osborne Explains Why His Version of The Little Prince Shouldn’t Exist http://bit.ly/2b7cn8X
Sketches from The Little Prince Movie http://bzfd.it/2b7ccL3
Listen to The Little Prince (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Hans Zimmer & Richard Harvey on Apple Music http://bit.ly/2b7edXk
Paramount drops The Little Prince http://bit.ly/2b7bSff
Review of “The Little Prince” http://bit.ly/2b7d5Da
About the original novella “The Little Prince” http://bit.ly/2b7d4PC
About the 1974 film “The Little Prince” http://bit.ly/2bpyMSy
About the movie “Hook” http://bit.ly/2bpys6m
About the play “Copenhagen” http://bit.ly/2bpyR8E
 

035 - In The Feels

Chris and Mackenzie get real about their emotions. How do storytellers manipulate our emotions? How does a story operate on our feels? Get ready to let loose as they unpack the emotional baggage of Adventure Time’s “I Remember You” and Futurama’s “The Luck of the Fryrish.” What is the “Perception Shift?” When is a good time for an Apocalypse? How much information do you have to have about the world to make someone feel sad?
Links
About Futurama: Luck of the Fryrish http://bit.ly/2b1LSm6
About Futurama: Lethal Inspection http://bit.ly/2b99OFw
About Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry http://bit.ly/2b1LKmz
About Adventure Time: I Remember You http://avc.lu/2b9aafv
Buy Adventure Time: I Remember You on iTunes http://apple.co/2b9a6wd
How Adventure Time Revitalized Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling http://bit.ly/2b1M1pF
Looking for Structure (Has a word about the Perception Shift) http://bit.ly/2b9afzI
Old Blog Post with a little Perception Shift Action http://bit.ly/2b1M199
More Blog Posts about structure and Perception Shift using The Prestige http://bit.ly/2b9a3Ah
About We Bare Bears: Burrito http://bit.ly/2b1LJPI
BoJack Horseman and the Infinite Sadness http://bit.ly/2b9adYr
Emotional Cartoon Episodes That Made You Cry http://bit.ly/2b1MxEc
How Pixar Uses Music to Make You Cry http://bit.ly/2b9ar22
Listen to Don’t You Forget About Me http://bit.ly/2b99A1e
About Crazy Ex-Girlfriend http://bit.ly/2b1M8l2
 

034 - The Joke's On Us

We’re back with Season 2 of Writers Get Animated! Chris and Mackenzie do their best to not go full “Fanboy” as they discuss Mark Hamill as the Joker. What makes the Joker the best villain? What makes Mark Hamill’s performance so great? Does Batman truly smell? And if so, how badly? What makes the Joker sad? How can we make our own cardboard cutout audience of citizens of Gotham?
Links
Batman the Animated Series on Amazon Prime http://amzn.to/2axCtD3
Mark Hamill on the Joker at Star Wars Celebration 2016 http://uproxx.it/2aRRKQo
The full Mark Hamill interview. Worth it! http://bit.ly/2axCgQp
LEGO Batman Trailer http://bit.ly/2aEPRDz
Under the Red Hood http://bit.ly/2aEQzkf
The Killing Joke Trailer http://bit.ly/2azYMZh