Movie’sIssue 01 - Zootopia

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In a world populated by anthropomorphic mammals, Judy Hopps, a rabbit from rural Bunny burrow, fulfills her childhood dream of becoming the first rabbit officer in the police department of nearby city Zootopia. Despite graduating top of her class, Judy is nevertheless excluded from handling the top-priority missing predator cases, and assigned to parking duty by Chief Bogo, who doubts her potential. During one of her shifts, she meets Nick Wilde and Finnick, partners in crime.

Plot Synopsis

CharactersJudy HoppsGinnifer GoodwinNick WildeJason BatemanMr. BigMaurice LaMarcheFiNNickTommy ListercHieF BogoIdris ElbaFlasHRaymond Persileodore lioNHeartJ.K. Simmonsduke WeseltoNAlan TudykBeNJaMiN claWHauserNate TorrenceBellWHeatHerJenny Slateyax tHe yakTommy Chong

Box OfficeAs of March 28, 2016, Zootopia has grossed $246.2 million in North America and $456.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $702.4 million against a budget of $150 million. On March 18, 2016, the film reached the $500 million mark, becoming the third consecutive Walt Disney animated film to reach the mile-stone after Frozen (2013) and Big Hero 6 (2014)

Zootopia, is a Walt Disney Animation Studios set in a brilliantly imagined animals-only city where the first bunny on the police force tries to solve a crime with the reluctant help of a con-artist fox.This is very sophisticated entertainment that will appeal to a wide range of ages - a pointed parable about female empowerment and racial tolerance that makes its message go down with less than a spoonful of sugar.

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Zootopia

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Bio

Judy is fiercely optimistic and independent. Since childhood, she's harbored a dream to become a police officer, solely for the opportunity to help those in need and make the world a better place. She cares deeply for the well-being of others; this includes her family, friends, Mrs. Otterton's despair over the disappearance of her husband, and even Nick. During the chase in Little Rodentia, Judy intercepted every chance of danger for the small residents even when capturing the thieving Duke Weaselton was on the line. She has a large heart, and although she tends to keep her emotions under control—and even under wraps—a majority of the time, she is capable of expressing her true feelings in a genuine, powerful light. This is mostly seen with Nick Wilde, whose feelings and companionship she values highly, motivating her to prevent her own ambitions from harming others.

Personality

In the countryside community of Bunnyburrow, young Judy has dreamed of becoming a police officer in the city of Zootopia, where anyone can be anything. Her par-ents, Bonnie and Stu, try to dis-suade Judy from following a risky goal and encourage her to become a carrot farmer with the family instead, though Judy explains her willingness to make the world a better place by becoming an offi-cer, in spite of the fact that there has never been a bunny cop.

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Voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin

“Ready to make the world a better place”

Judy Hopps

Judy Hopps On Pursuit

Quotes“Ready to make the world a better place?”“Oh sweet cheese ‘n crackers.”“It’s called a hustle, sweetheart. Boom.”“You’re gonna want to refrain from calling me ‘Carrots’.”

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Nick Wilde“It’s called a hustle, sweet-heart”

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Nick is generally charismatic, sociable, wise-cracking and highly intelligent. A shifty, sly, mischievous and cunning fox, traits supposedly common to all foxes, Nick is easy-going and slick, easily conning and tricking others through his charm and friendly demeanor. He always has a sly smile on his face and seems unfazed throughout most of the events.Due to his troubled history, Nick grew to be cynical, de-vious and prejudiced himself. Unlike Judy, he viewed the world of Zoo-topia as an abysmal place, where dreams are nothing more than far-off fantasies, and those who strive to become something more than they’re stereotyped to be, are sim-ply wasting their time and energy. Nevertheless, he kept a somewhat positive aura by embracing and exploring his strong points, which were his wit, intelligence and ability to con practically all of whom he came across.

Personality

On an average day, Nick and Finnick were in the midst of their latest scheme. He is first seen snooping about Savanna Central, and eventually entering Jumbeaux’s Café, unknowingly being tailed by Officer Judy Hopps, a rookie of the Zootopia Police Department, as she believes Nick, being a fox, is up to no good. Inside the café, Nick is denied service due to his species, though Nick claims he means no harm, and is simply looking to buy a Jumbo-pop as a birthday present for his son (Finnick, disguised as a toddler).

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Voiced by Jason Bateman

Nick Wilde at the DMV

Quotes“It’s called a hustle, sweetheart.”“Careful now, or it won’t be just your dreams getting crushed.”“I know everybody.”

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“Ice em!”Mr. Big

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Mr. Big carries himself with a strong sense of class and dignity. In spite of being a crime boss, he is not inherently villainous, and prefers to establish healthy relationships with business partners, rather than in-timidating someone to work as his accomplice. He values family, and is capable of seeing his acquain-tances and employees, such as Mr. Otterton and Nick Wilde, initially, as family themselves, going as far as to inviting them into his home, and providing homemade food and other luxuries in gratitude for their services, showing himself to be highly hospitable and respectful. This is also seen with his blood relatives, such as Fru Fru, whom he admires dearly. Unlike her father, Fru Fru is extremely social and sweet, and disapproves of her fa-ther’s criminal activities. Neverthe-less, she has been shown to return his affections, and the two share a healthy relationship.

Personality

During an investigation to find Emmitt Otterton, Judy and Nick track down the limousine Otterton was last seen in before his disap-pearance. What they discover is a ransacked car, and that it be-longs to Mr. Big. Big’s polar bear henchmen, Raymond and Kevin, find Nick and Judy and take them to their boss’ estate. Mr. Big con-fronts Nick on the latter’s audacity to arrive unannounced on the day that his daughter is to be married, and further laments his feelings of betrayal and disrespect, regarding Wilde’s rug scam.

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Voiced by Maurice LaMarche

Mr. Big in his chair

Quotes“Ice em!”“I have to, baby. Daddy has to.”“My child. We may be evolved, but deep down, we are still animals.”

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cHief Bogo“It’s not about how badly you want something, it’s about what you are capable of.”

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Bogo is first introduced during morn-ing routines in the bullpen of the ZPD headquarters. He purposely glosses over formally introducing Judy, not caring for new recruits, and primar-ily focuses on the fourteen missing mammal cases that have occurred throughout various districts in the city. While the other members are assigned to find said mammals, Bogo regulates Judy to parking duty. When politely approached about the matter, and after being reminded that she was the top of her class at the academy, Bogo states that he didn’t forget, but didn’t care, leaving Judy with her meter maid assignment.

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Voiced by Jason Idris Elba

Chief Bogo at the police Department

Quotes“It’s not about how badly you want some-thing, it’s about what you are capable of!”

Like many mammals, Bogo was highly prejudiced at the start of the film. He was openly against having a bunny join his force, which was, initially, comprised of heavy-weight mammals such as elephants, rhinos, and hippos, and predators such as tigers, lions, bears, and wolves. Taking offense by Mayor Lionheart’s decision to add a bunny to the force without his opinion on the matter (as Judy was the valedictorian of her class at the Police Academy, making her legitimate in the mayor’s eyes), Bogo took it upon himself to assign Judy with the seemingly looked down upon task of meter maid duty. Aside from his work dedication, he disliked anything that interfered with more serious matters, including politics and the antics of his own officers. Despite all of this, Bogo is not as close-minded as he seems. His prejudice is mainly out of being “realistic”, simply believing bunnies to be unfit for police duty, as they are not inherently strong mammals.http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/

Chief_Bogo

Cute and clever in equal measure, Disney’s Zootropolis is an animated movie to gladden kids and adults alike.The setting supplies the cuteness, an exu-berantly anthropomorphic world populated by animals of every stripe, who walk on their hind legs, wear clothes and display all too recognisably human traits.The cleverness comes from a script that combines sight gags, satire and a cunning mystery plot with some wholesome moral lessons about prejudice and diversity. Bright-eyed and cotton-tailed, rabbit heroine Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) is the story’s eager idealist, determined to break down barriers and become the first bunny cop of the title city (the film is called Zootopia in the US), a bustling metropolis where prey and predators live together in harmony.And she does make it into the ranks of the Zootopia Police Department, thanks to her irrepressible zest and the Mammal Inclusion Initiative of Mayor Lionheart (JK Simmons). The ZPD’s chief, a gruff water buffalo voiced by Idris Elba, reckons she is only suited to traffic duty, but Judy won’t be fobbed off with the role of meter maid. Instead, she’s set on solving a series of puzzling disappearances among the city’s residents and cajoles sly con-artist fox Nick Wilde (a slyly funny Jason Bateman proving an ideal foil for Goodwin’s perky zeal) into helping her.Film noir aficionados will love the way the film sets up and solves this mystery. Yet unlike the knowingly grown-up jokes that are sometimes inserted into other animated movies,

the crafty nods to Chinatown and The God-father feel totally fitting here. And the vivid characters and lively action means that even when younger viewers miss the references they’re not excluded from the fun.

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2. There are at least 2 references to AMC’s Breaking Bad. The most obvious one being Doug’s lab suit and actual lab, plus his two minions that are bringing him coffee are named Woolter and Jesse. The not so obvi-ous one is in the lobby of the nudist relax-ation place, where a group of ‘blue crystals’ can be seen.3 There are cleverly hidden sight gags of animal versions of well known real brand names, like Zuber (ride hailing service Uber), Lemming Bros. Bank (Lehman Bros.), Trader Doe’s (Trader Joe’s food stores), Mousy’s (Macy’s department store), Moustercharge (MasterCharge credit cards), Targoat (Tar-get), including many more.

If you see the name John Lasseter attached to any project, in any capacity, rest assured that there is going to be heart in said project. As the executive producer of Zootopia, his grand visionary ways have clearly trickled down. It is fair to say that this movie feels more like a strain of a Pixar film, which is ex-actly what has been happening at Disney for a little while. Disney bought out Pixar, but it’s clear that Pixar is taking over the CGI depart-ment, and that’s a really good thing.Is the 2017 Best Animated Feature Oscar race already over? It’s possible, especially when this film deals with serious issues, like discrimination and stereotyping, in a poised and entertaining way. There is humor for ev-erybody in this movie, it’s truly a family movie, but there is a, just the right balance of drama sprinkled too.It’s clear that technology has come a long way, and these days there are elements of animation that really make it hard to distin-guish between real and computer generated. In particular there are some striking scenes of The Rainforest District, that would make any cinematographer green with envy. What carries this film, also, in an underlying melodic way is the brilliant and not so emotionally charged score by Michael Giacchino. Combined with engaging characters and marvelous produc-tion designs, it’s no wonder that Zootopia is already one of the this year’s favorite movies!Facts1. When Judy is first arriving to Zootopia there is a glimpse of the Buy N’ Large build-ing from Wall-E

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Last week Zootopia, the 55th animated Disney film, debuted in theaters to critical appraise and a huge box office. The previous 54 were mostly about either plucky young girls or talking animals, and Zootopia is no different in that regard, except this time it’s a plucky young girl who happens to be a talking animal.And yet Zootopia is nothing like any Disney animated movie you’ve ever seen. This movie is what happens when the people who made Bambi and Dumbo team up with some con-spiracy-minded Hoteps. Who knew the folks at Disney had it in them to make the most searing, complicated and subversive film about race, drugs and policy since Traffic ... but with furry animals?Spoiler alert: I’m giving away some key plot points about Zootopia, so if you haven’t seen it yet or just have a deep medical aversion to spoilers, stop reading now.The story revolves around Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin), a rabbit from rural Bunnyburrow who dreams of one day becom-ing a police officer in the big city of Zootopia. The catch is, there has never been a rabbit on the police force. Because even though Zootopia prides itself on being a city where animals big and small, predator and prey, can all live in harmony, there’s still discrimination. Big animals like bison, elephants and hippos, along with predators like lions and tigers, are in the minority, but they get some of the best jobs and are considered stronger and “cooler.” Zootopia makes it clear that terms like “preda-tor,” “prey,” “black,” “white” and “Hispanic” are all pretty interchangeable when you’re talking about discrimination. Judy is discouraged from being a cop, and when she graduates at the top of her

class at the police academy, Police Chief Bogo (voiced by Idris Elba) believes that she’s just a result of the Mammal Inclusion Initiative, a sort of affirmative action for the short and fluffy wood-land creatures. Throw in Mayor Leodore Lion-heart (played by J.K. Simmons), who constantly obsesses about being a predator mayor in a city that’s 90 percent prey, and the various ways that the animals work together but hold on to stereo-types about foxes, sloths and rabbits, and the whole thing plays out like The Wire with webbed feet. The movie moves along in typical Disney fashion—a mystery, an unlikely friendship—but then suddenly, in the last act, it goes 100 per-cent COINTELPRO, diving deep into Hotel-level criticism of white supremacy and the drug trade. You never see it coming. Judy and her partner, a sly fox named Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman), discover that there’s a drug being put on the street that causes predators to “go wild.” They become violent, smash up property and attack other animals like ... animals. While the drug has the same effect on small prey animals as well, all of those deeply affected by the drugs are predators like panthers and otters (all of whom are voiced by black or Hispanic actors), and that plays into long-existing stereotypes in the prey community that preda-tors are inherently violent and can’t be trusted. As a result of this new drug epidemic, predators are denied jobs, demoted from positions of influ-ence and treated like menaces to society. When Judy and Nick finally crack the case, what do they discover? The drugs were being pumped into the predator community by the assistant mayor, Dawn Bellwether, a white fuzzy sheep. The assistant mayor knew that if she could The assistant mayor knew that if she could prejudice

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The assistant mayor knew that if she could prej-udice prey against the predator community by playing into existing stereotypes, the majority of animals would be easier to manipulate. No need to adjust your kufi. That is the actual plot.It’s straight out of the realization that members of the CIA either wittingly or unwittingly helped in-troduce crack cocaine into minority communities in the 1970s and ’80s, even though the press and some political leaders denied it for years.The subsequent destruction of mostly black neighborhoods made it easier for white political leaders and pundits to dismiss African-Ameri-can communities as filled with “crack babies,” “welfare queens” and “superpredators.” There can never be enough attention paid to this dark time in American history, even if it comes out of the mouths of furry animated creatures.Is Zootopia perfect? Of course not. Some of its racial messages are muddled. For example, after establishing that being called “cute” in the rabbit community is the equivalent of saying “n--ger (something that rabbits can call one another but other animals can’t), Judy Hopp is casually referred to as “cute” by other animals throughout the film, with no further reflection. Replace that with “n--ger” and you’ve moved from Disney to an episode of Boondocks. But that’s a small price to pay for some conspiracy-level animation that owes more to The Isis Papers and Hidden Colors than it does The Mickey Mouse Club.

By: Jason Johnson

http://www.theroot.com/articles/cul-ture/2016/03/zootopia_yes_disney_made_a_movie_about_racism_but_with_talking_animals.html

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Jared Bush, American screenwriter, animator. Jared has been involved in anoth-er movie Dumber and Dumber, Jared has been writing for film for 14 year’s. The person who is interviewing Jared is Peter Sciretta. He’ll be finding out how the story started and all the research that was done in the process.So make sure you read this interview and find out, how the story was made.

Peter: Okay, so I’m very interested in the creative process and I know you guys have probably answered a lot of questions with the same answers and…

Jared: You’re getting new answers this time.

Peter: (Laughs.) I want new answers. No, but I’m very interested in how things evolve. And I know like you go through so many iterations and whatever. What was like the first, the inception of this whole thing? And how did it evolve over time.

Peter: (Laughs.) I want new answers. No, but I’m very interested in how things evolve. And I know like you go through so many iterations and whatever. What was like the first, the inception of this whole thing? And how did it evolve over time.

Jared: Well early on Byron had this idea. So Byron loved animal movies, talking animal movies. Love them, especially Robin Hood. And early on he had this idea to have two characters, a fox and a bunny together in a world populated by animals. And when I came onto the project it was originally a spy

movie. And the first 10 minutes of that movie took place in this mammal world. And then they went to this crazy tropical island where a bunch of other stuff happened. And it was more of a spy movie.

Peter: So it wasn’t even set in Zootopia.

Jared: No, and he got notes saying, you know what’s really awesome is this mammal world. And then you go to this island. Just put the whole thing in this mammal world ’cause it’s amazing. And so my first day on the job, I walked in saying okay, so we’re a spy movie on this island. And Byron said, no, actually that’s all getting thrown away. And I said, what’s the movie? So what is it? What’s the movie gonna be about? He’s like I don’t know yet. It’s gonna be a fox and a bunny. They’re gonna be in this city. Let’s go.

Peter: So the spy movie didn’t have a bunny and a fox?

Jared: No, it did have a bunny and a fox, but it was a very different type of a story. And so early on the idea of unraveling some sort of mystery, we wanted to retain that. And as the

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project continued on and we started to build out the world, originally the fox was the main character as opposed to the rabbit. And took that down a really long path and what kind of life would he have? And we’d spend a lot of time on versions where we got to know his backstory, which is a very different backstory than it currently is. But then eventually the story started, the movie started to tell you what it wants to be about. And this idea that these animals have preconceived notions of each other became the centerpiece and the thing that we really anchored everything else around.

Peter: One of the things I love about the mov-ie is the world building. It feels like a real place. It feels like, you know, I wanna go. I think we talked earlier and I wanna go there. When you get to that point where we’re basing it in Zootopia, do you start then like okay, let’s start building out the world? Or is it about let’s get these characters right? Or is it let’s get the sto-ry? Like what do you start, what comes first the chicken or the…?

Jared: Well, this movie is a little different than most. We did a ton of research up front. So months and months of research. And we, in a way, kind of put the story on hold for a second while we tried to figure out how to build this

world. And the world started to tell us those dynamics. We found out through our research that there are 90 percent prey animals in our natural world. 90 prey and only 10 percent predators. And that was a really interesting ratio. And oh, that’s really neat. And then we started to look atthe animals themselves how they interre-late with each other. So for us on this one, research really did push a lot of the story. Of course at the same time, you’re investigating who the characters could be and we knew the fox. We wanted to certainly going off of Robin Hood and having that as something as a jumping off spot. We knew that we wanted to have a really charming, sarcastic, likeable, but kind of snarky guy who was cynical as that fox character. And then it made sense for the rabbit to be a little bit more optimistic. But even those characters changed a lot over the course of the research.

Peter: Well that’s all we have time for, thank you very much for coming.

Jared: Oh Thank you.

Peter: It was very nice to meet you.

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