"Fantastic Mr. Fox"

The other day I watched a film from a few years ago that I had never gotten around to seeing while it was in theaters. It's called Fantastic Mr. Fox, and it was directed by Wes Anderson in 2009. I remember reading the book that the movie is based on by Roald Dahl when I was a kid, and I definitely had flashbacks to it while watching the film.

The movie is about a fox who starts a rivalry with three local farmers by stealing their food. The farmers come together to get back at him, and when the entire town is in danger, Mr. Fox must create a master plan to save the town. It was created using stop-motion animation, which involves taking 24 pictures for every second of film time. It's a painstaking process, but the results are truly extraordinary.

Sound recording is another thing that interests me, especially when it comes to animated movies. I learned from watching behind-the-scenes videos that the cast and crew went to a farm to record a lot of the dialogue to be sure it sounded authentic. I thought this was a brilliant idea, and Wes Anderson is kind of a genius.