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‘The Wild Robot’s Chris Sanders Paints Picture Of Film’s “Completely New Direction” In Score & Sound Design – Contenders Film: The Nominees
DreamWorks Animation's The Wild Robot has earned three Oscar nominations, for Animated Feature, Sound and Original Score.
“I knew from the moment I read the book that we had to move in a completely new direction in order to faithfully get this narrative up on the screen,” writer-director Chris Sanders says during a panel for Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees. “The beginning was a bit scary in terms of how much responsibility would be on the music, but it also felt very exciting because it let me know that the score could have a lot of melodies,” adds Bowers, the film’s composer. In one key scene, when Roz jumps from a ship while the forest is alight with magenta fire, shows off how the painterly style matches the soundscape.
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