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‘The Wild Robot’ Director and Composer on How Real-Life Parenting Worries Influenced the Score
'The Wild Robot' director Chris Sanders and composer Kris Bowers discuss the Oscar-nominated film.
At a Variety FYC Screening presented by Universal, director Chris Sanders and composer Kris Bowers sat down to talk about shaping the sonic landscape of Roz’s island and what drew them to the story of ‘The Wild Robot.’ Bower says his Oscar-nominated score for “The Wild Robot” was shaped by his expectations and worries regarding parenting: “One of the first themes I wanted to approach was the migration sequence. By the time we got to that point, my daughter was about one, and I remember watching it and the immediate thought I had was ‘Okay, I can imagine taking her to college, dropping her off,’ and I wrote this piece of music that was making me emotional.”
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