When ”wreck-it ralph crashes the internet” begins six years passed since the plot of the first film. It is pleasantly. The friendship, love and job satisfaction as the ”wreck-it ralph” from 2012 landed in the consist. Ralf is just as big, noisy and in dire need of to be well-liked. Vanilja von candy cane is (Vanellope, as she is called with the English audio track) as energetic and crazy in the cars. They’re working on in the video games where they belong. Ralf river house. Vanilja run sugar-derived race cars.
But soon they are forced to both look out to the new and unknown land: the Internet, here Disneymässigt manifested as a physical place. Google is a skyscraper. Darknet a dark basement with suspicious vendors. Online advertising (“lose weight! housewives!”) delivered on the signs that the little men with annoying voices pop up in ones face.
the main characters on the network occurred quickly after the first film, ” says Rich Moore, one of the two directors, when the DN meet him together with producer Clark Spencer in Stockholm. It was about five years ago. Prior to Cambridge Analytica-scandals and Russian trollkampanjer. When the general internetdebatten went in brighter tones than in the day.
But the more Rich Moore talked with the experts, the darker became his picture of the network. One of them was Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and was until recently a senior director at Disney animation. A pioneer in digital development for several decades with better understanding of technology issues and online than most. He if anyone should love the idea, argued directors.
– With a legendary career as a computer scientist was Ed one of the first we spoke with. We thought he would love to talk about the internet. But he just snorted: “It’s a mess.”, says Rich Moore in a room at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.
So it went. The more experienced the experts was the darker became the image of the network. Patched and mended, never built to link up a whole world. ”You should have started from scratch,” he heard. Malicious software, spam and hoaxes. At the same time grew the issue of hate and harassment on social media.
During the early 2000s, maybe they had not talked in the same way. Then it was all so nyförälskade, ” says Moore, who won an Oscar for best animation with “Zootropolis” two years ago.
Rich Moore. Photo: Paul Hansen
Ralf and Vanilja thrown out in would not be any utopia. But not a straight through horrible place. There is both and. So that – feel now the fear of the lord – user comments, a horrible room that Ralf is visiting from mistakes and know that he is useless of people he has never met. Much like in a real comments field on Youtube. But the film’s the internet also provides phenomenal opportunities.
” We really don’t want to give the image of a utopia, as everything is good and that it is a wonderful, perfect place, says Rich Moore.
Rather as a good character, with both blacks and lovable sides, ” continues the producer Clark Spencer.
” The perfect is never interesting. You want to see it that way. Often, people are talking about characters need weaknesses, but that the actual world has it makes itself good. It means that we can show both sides. We must not forget how powerful the internet is, it connects people all over the world. But so are those who take advantage of it and move on to the weak and uncertain. Ralf is perfect to throw in in such a world, for he is so insecure, ” says Clark Spencer.
it had been determined he had probably never moved outside the arkadhallen. Life after the first film’s drama is all he can dream about. Vanilja is more restless. When she is thrown out in the new world, it is also she who, unlike Ralf, tackles like a great adventure. It is intended as a reflection of how different generations relate to online and digital worlds.
– Ralf is generation X, says Rich Moore and refers to the generation that extends forward to the year of birth in the beginning of the 1980s.
” He doesn’t rely on the internet. For his part, he can well be without it. But Vanilja is more of a millennial. For her, it is just a possibility. Nothing is scary.
This difference between them becomes central to the film. At the same time, it appears that the glare of the world they have been thrown into has its flaws and errors.
Rich Moore describes the first wreck-it ralph-the film as a nostalgic love letter to 1980s arcade games. ”Wreck-it ralph crashes the internet” is more ambivalent to its central theme. ”The Internet is nothing to play with”, as arkadmaskinernas security guard says as he slips out of the entrance.
” Not a love letter, but a nod to the network as one of the greatest inventions in my lifetime. A respectful nod.
