Turning Red

2022 - 3 - 11

‘Turning Red’ tackles trial of tweens (unknown)

Turning Red” asserts the value of a metaphor signifying more than one thing. With any story centered on a 13-year-old's multidirectional hormones in the ...

Chance of snow 40%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph. Low near 15F. Winds WNW at 15 to 25 mph. Windy with occasional snow showers.

'Turning Red' confronts the messiness of adolescence with refreshing honesty (unknown)

In Pixar's new animated film, a Chinese Canadian girl awakens one morning to find that she's turned into an enormous panda. Turning Red provides a lot to ...

All of which is to say that Turning Red gives you a lot of ideas to grapple with. I also balked at moments that seemed to exaggerate for comic effect, especially when it came to Mei's mother, who's clearly been conceived along the lines of the controversial "tiger mom" stereotype. As it turns out, the red-panda effect is the result of some very ancient Chinese magic that's been passed down to Mei through the women in her family. And then one morning, in a twist that riffs on Kafka's The Metamorphosis and countless werewolf movies, she discovers that she's turned into an enormous red panda, with bright red-orange fur and a long, bushy tail. Director Shi, who wrote the script with Julia Cho, confronts the messiness of adolescence with an honesty that's refreshing in the world of studio animation. With her first feature, Turning Red, Shi leans further into the complexities of Asian parent-child relationships — and this time, she's come up with an even wilder conceit.

Post cover — Image courtesy of "Sky News"

Anne-Marie on dealing with emotions and Turning Red - and other ... (Sky News)

In this week's Backstage review, Anne-Marie opens up about sharing her struggles and her cameo in Turning Red. Plus, Caitriona Balfe talks Belfast and the ...

"But like anything, there's a small sliver that is kind of criticising or maybe a little intrusive, and of course as human beings it's hard not to sort of catch on to that. "I try and do that with my music - I always really try and put a message in there that people may not have heard in a pop song before or just something that makes people feel something," she said. You can listen to our interviews and hear our reviews in this week's Backstage podcast. And it wasn't until I started therapy where I actually started realising that being in the middle is a really good place to be. She also confirmed she was going to try therapy, and has told Sky News not only is she doing so but also credits her friends with helping her through the toughest times. "It's definitely a good thing to learn," she said.

'Turning Red' is a turning point for Asians in film. Why is it seen as unrelatable? (unknown)

The film, directed by Domee Shi, tells the story of Meilin (played by Rosalie Chiang), a Chinese Canadian 13-year-old, battling the ups and downs of the early ...

"The story of all of these friends and the family is so universal... There's emotions in 'Turning Red' that are absolutely part of a human story," she said. "It's not like I could relate to Ratatouille... I didn't even know Ratatouille was a dish," she said. That's what it kind of felt like," Wang Yuen said. Which is fine — but also, a tad limiting in its scope," O'Connell wrote. The film, which premiered Friday on Disney+, been widely hailed as a refreshing, creative look at tweendom and the awkwardness of growing up.

'Turning Red' cast responds after controversial review pulled offline (unknown)

Turning Red” cast members spoke up in support of the new Pixar film and its universality following a controversial review for the animated movie that was.

The actor added, “[Many people will be able] to relate to Meilin’s story, regardless of whether you are a young Chinese girl from Canada or not.” O’Connell also issued the following apology on Twitter: “I’m genuinely sorry for my ‘Turning Red’ review. It’s a love letter to Toronto.” This is a coming of age film, everyone goes through this change… CinemaBlend managing director Sean O’Connell wrote the review, saying that the film’s appeal was limited because it’s set in the Asian community of Toronto. “Which is fine — but also, a tad limiting in its scope.”

Developing Turning Red’s ancient panda ritual was a global effort (unknown)

What are the words of the Chinese ritual chant in Turning Red? How did Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell's boy-band song "Nobody Like U" merge with that ...

So he was able to pull the chant into his own system, along with the 4*Town song, and do this awesome remix where we were like, ‘Oh my God, it works!’ But I think it worked because he’s a magician. “He was like, ‘All right, so if the 4*Town song is in this key, let’s do this—’ He worked with us to make sure that rhythmically, we were doing what we needed to be doing so he could produce the remix. “We worked with a Cantonese dialect coach, Andy. We loved him,” Shi says. In the climactic final number, the chant winds up merging with Ludwig Göransson’s score and “Nobody Like U,” one of the songs siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s wrote for Turning Red’s heartthrob boy band 4*Town. Shi wanted to make sure a native speaker was involved in developing the chant, so she and her team reached out to Herman Wong, the Hong Kong-based Asian-Pacific operations director for Disney Character Voices International, the Disney division that handles translation and dubbing services. “We were really inspired by Taoist chants that monks would do in Taoist temples,” Shi says.

Domee Shi was a Pixar intern 11 years ago—now she's the first ... (CNBC)

With the release of the Disney movie “Turning Red,” Domee Shi is the first woman to solo-direct a Pixar film in the studio's 36-year history.

After the internship, she stayed with Pixar as a staff artist and contributed to films including "Inside Out" and "Incredibles 2." It helps that Shi has now spent more than a decade with Pixar honing her animation and pitching chops. Before bringing the movie to the masses, though, she had to get senior Disney executives onboard.