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How Feathers McGraw Became Cinema’s Most Terrifying Villain
A milk-bottle gait, thumbtack eyes, and a healthy dose of vanity. This penguin means business.
I just liked them visually and comedically.” The illustrations never came to fruition, but Park’s continued obsession with penguins — doubled with the smashing success of A Grand Day Out — made him return to the animal several years later when the follow-up film, The Wrong Trousers, was being developed. “A lot of fellow filmmakers reacted in disbelief at how powerful this little penguin was.” Steven Spielberg and Danny Boyle reached out to express admiration, but Parks’s family were tougher judges: “They had a fear and hatred of him. “At times you have to.” In one scene, while finalizing his master plan to steal back the Blue Diamond after escaping from zoo jail, Feathers parallels James Bond’s archenemy, Blofeld, by showing a softer side to an animal while seated on a chair.
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