Chicken Run
Peter Lord, Nick Park
It is 1950 andGinger lives on an English farm with all the other chickens. But although some find the peaceful life of the chicken run fine, Ginger does not. She devises all sorts of escape plans, unbeknown to the farmers. Then the free-spirited rooster Rocky arrives in the farmyard. Ginger sees Rocky as her final hope. If only he could teach them to fly they could escape. But time is pressing as farm-owner Mrs Tweedy is planning on putting them in the pot ...
Avec les voix de : Gérard Depardieu, Valérie Lemercier, Josiane Balasko
Screenplay : Karey Kirkpatrick
Image : Dave Alex Riddett
Music : John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams
Editing : Mark Solomon
Animation : Loyd Price, Andy Symanowski
Screenplay : Karey Kirkpatrick
Image : Dave Alex Riddett
Music : John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams
Editing : Mark Solomon
Animation : Loyd Price, Andy Symanowski
Peter Lord became interested in animation as a child, making little claymation films with Dave Sproxton, one of his friends. Together they went on to found Aardman Animation. In 1985 he met Nick Park, who used stop-motion in his graduation film A Grand Day Out, the first episode in the adventures of Wallace and Gromit, which won the audience award at the 2nd edition of Premiers Plans in 1990. This meeting eventually led to Chicken Run.
The disturbing atmosphere emanating from the Tweedys' house gives a certain charm to the film. Nick Park actually said "we deliberately made the Tweedys' house dark and menacing. We wanted something evil, a "dark house" inspired more by Hitchcock's house in Psycho than the farms that actually exist in Yorkshire. I must admit that we did cheat a bit on that".
The disturbing atmosphere emanating from the Tweedys' house gives a certain charm to the film. Nick Park actually said "we deliberately made the Tweedys' house dark and menacing. We wanted something evil, a "dark house" inspired more by Hitchcock's house in Psycho than the farms that actually exist in Yorkshire. I must admit that we did cheat a bit on that".