Virtually twenty years back, Spanish supervisor, reporter and songs manufacturer Fernando Trueba started doing meetings to check out the strange loss and assumed murder of Brazilian jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior in 1976. Yet he really did not recognize what he would certainly make with the product. He considered a publication or a documentary.
Yet a couple of years later on, after he would certainly made the computer animated movie “Chico & Rita” and got an Oscar election, it took place to him that the tale of Tenório Júnior may be best for computer animation.
“I realized that if I made a documentary with people talking about him, it was going to be one hour of closeups of people talking about a dead guy,” stated Trueba, best recognized for live-action movies like “Year of Enlightenment,” “The Girl of Your Dreams” and “Belle Époque,” which won the 1992 Oscar for Ideal International Language Movie.
“I thought, Tenório deserved better than that. I was going to tell the story of his disappearance, but I also wanted to talk about someone who was alive. I wanted to make the audience not just hear the bad news, but also hear the great music.”
He at first assumed it was a foolish concept to make a computer animated movie concerning Tenório Junior, yet after 6 months of maintaining it to himself while the concept expanded in his head, he informed his partner concerning it. Rather than informing him it was ludicrous, she stated, “OK, let’s go.”
So Trueba started work with the motion picture that ended up being “They Shot the Piano Player” by generating Spanish musician and developer Javier Mariscal to straight with him. Mariscal recognized that various areas of the movie would certainly need various designs of computer animation.
“I saw very quickly that the film should be very realistic when Jeff (a journalist character investigating Tenório Junior’s disappearance) is doing interviews or going to New York or Rio or Los Angeles,” Mariscal stated. “Yet also when I was pulling in a reasonable means, I attempted to make the heads and the hands larger for even more expression.
“And then when I illustrate the memories of people, it’s another style. It’s not realistic, with not a lot of colors. When it was possible, I only used two or three colors to better understand the memory of this character. And when they play music, I tried to make it completely unrealistic, more like the music is inside the drawings.”
Jeff Goldblum, a long time good friend of Trueba and an achieved jazz pianist himself, provided the voice of the reporter personality. Yet although Trueba has a film celebrity and a circulation handle Sony Photo Standards, the supervisor understands his motion picture has actually a rarefied target market.
“It’s not a commercial project,” he stated. “It’s very risky, very arty. You are talking about music, about politics, about history, about memory. But how can you do the puzzle of a life knowing that there are many pieces that you will never have? This was very complicated — making it real in three languages, working with documentary material but keeping the strategies of fiction storytelling. For me, that made it really interesting and challenging.”
This tale initially showed up in the Honors Sneak peek concern of TheWrap’s honors publication. Learn more from the concern below.
