Long Essay Outline:
Wolfwalkers (2020) Directed by Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart
Reason of attraction: hand animated art style (TV Paint software), use of woodcut style, coloring, visual design, contrasts, Irish mythology themes, friendship themes, anti-authoritarian-colonialism & pro-nature messaging. Tomm Moore’s final film in the Irish Folklore trilogy [The Secret of Kells (2009) & Song of the Sea (2014)]. Film is concerned with telling a story, not a jumbled mess one might see on Spongebob.
Vague outline:
Wolfwalkers summary/plot (runtime?)
Princess Kaguya (2013)/101 Dalmatians (1961)/art inspiration.
Something about TV Paint software maybe. Oh god the software. So many. Re: 101 Dalmatians Xerox method parallel.
Distribution. Big awards. (COVID interference to profits?) €10 million to produce.
Folklore (how it evolves) / modern parallels (politics/environmental/treatment of indigenous peoples)
Maybe further inspired The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)?
