Wallace And Gromit
.External linksWallace and Gromit is a British comedy series created by of. The series consists of four and one, but has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, along with his companion Gromit, a silent yet loyal and intelligent dog. The first short film, was finished and made public in the year 1989.
Wallace was originally voiced by veteran actor, and later. Gromit always remains silent, instead communicating only through means of and.Because of their widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international of both modern British culture and British people in general. Called them 'some of the best-known and best-loved stars to come out of the UK'. Icons has said they have done 'more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors'. Although not overtly set in any particular town, Nick Park has hinted that it was inspired by 1950s in the north of England. Wallace's accent (voiced by Peter Sallis) comes from the of. Wallace is fond of (from, North Yorkshire).Their films have received critical acclaim, with the first three of the short films, (1989), (1993) and (1995), having on the aggregation site; the feature film (2005) earned a 95% rating.
The feature film is the, only outgrossed by, another Nick Park creation.The Wallace and Gromit characters spearhead the fundraising for two children's charities: Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, which supports and in the United Kingdom, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal, the in, England. Contents.History The first short film, was nominated for the in 1990, but lost to, another animated creation of Nick Park. The short films and followed.
The full-length feature was released in 2005. The latter three each earned Academy Awards.In January 2007, a five-film deal with and Aardman fell through after only three films, due to creative differences, as well as the box office failure of. Park said later that DreamWorks executives wanted to the very British Wallace and Gromit after test screenings, which would have tarnished some of the duo's charm. The fourth Wallace & Gromit short, was 's first production since the end of the DreamWorks deal.
It was the most watched television programme in the UK in 2008. A Matter of Loaf and Death won the 2008 for Best Short Animation and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010. In 2013, stated that there were no plans at the moment for a new short film, and Nick Park announced in the following year that the declining health of Wallace's voice actor, had the possibility of preventing any future films despite the availability of Ben Whitehead.On 4 May 2017, Peter Lord stated that more projects with the characters are likely while speaking at an animation event in, Germany. He said, 'When Nick Park's not drawing cavemen, he's drawing Wallace & Gromit. I absolutely assume he will do another, but not a feature. I think he found it was too much.
I think he liked the half-hour format.' The original voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis, died on 2 June 2017 at the age of 96. In 2018, Park said to Radio Times: 'Sallis was such a special one-off person with such unique qualities, it would be hard to fill his shoes but I think he’d want us to carry on and I’ve got more Wallace and Gromit ideas.” Overview.
Creator with his characters in 2005 promoting. Wallace Wallace lives at 62 West Wallaby Street, along with his dog Gromit. His surname is never given. He usually wears a white shirt, brown wool trousers, a green knitted, and a red tie. He is fond of cheese, especially, and.Nick Park, his creator, said: 'He's a very self-contained figure.
A very homely sort who doesn't mind the odd adventure.' He is loosely based on Nick Park's father, whom Park described in a radio interview as 'an incurable tinkerer'. He described one of his father's constructions, a combination beach hut and trailer, as having curtains in the windows, bookshelves on the walls, and full-sized furniture bolted to the floor. The way he dresses and his passion for cheese is based on an eccentric school teacher.Wallace has been voiced by (until 2010), and (in 2009 and since 2011) in and commercials and apps.Wallace is an inveterate inventor, creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended. Their appearance is similar to the illustrations of and, and Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut.'
Some of Wallace's contraptions are based on real-life inventions. For example, his method of waking up in the morning utilises a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at of 1851 by.Wallace's official job varies; in A Close Shave he is a window washer.
In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace runs a humane pest control service, keeping the captured creatures (nearly all of which are rabbits) in the basement of his house. In the most recent short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, he is a baker. While he has shown himself to be skilled to some degree in the businesses he creates, an unexpected flaw in the inventions he uses to assist him in his latest venture or simple bad luck often ends up being his downfall.In the first photo shown on, it was revealed that Wallace once had a full head of hair and a very thick moustache with. On the photo that shows Gromit's graduation at Dogwarts, he had lost his beard, but still had a little hair, in the form of side burns just above his ears.
In, he still uses a hair-dryer. In A Matter of Loaf and Death, when Wallace is talking to Gromit, a picture is seen behind Gromit of Wallace with a brown beard and brown hair.Wallace has had three love interests. The first was Wendolene Ramsbottom, which ended quickly when Wendolene told Wallace that cheese gives her a rash. The second was in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, whom Wallace fondly calls 'Totty'.
In A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wallace becomes engaged to Piella Bakewell, but this ended when she turned out to be a murderess who hated bakers, and was eaten by crocodiles upon trying to escape justice. In Musical Marvels, after the montage of his three love interests, he refers to them as 'the ones that got away'.Gromit. 'Gromit doesn't ever say a word, but there has never been a more expressive character (animated or otherwise) to grace our screens.' — magazine’s entry for Gromit placing the dog first in their list of 'The 50 best animated movie characters'.Gromit is a who is Wallace's pet dog and best friend.
He is very intelligent, having graduated from 'Dogwarts University' ('Dogwarts' being a pun on ',' the wizard school from the books) with a in Engineering for Dogs. He likes knitting, playing chess, reading the newspaper, tea and cooking. His prized possessions include his alarm clock, dog bone, brush, and a framed photo of himself with Wallace. He is very handy with electronic equipment and an excellent aeroplane pilot. He often threatens the plans of the villains he and Wallace encounter in their adventures. Sometimes, Gromit ignores Wallace's orders, such as in A Close Shave and Shopper 13, where Wallace orders him to get rid of Shaun, but Gromit does not. Gromit's birthday is 12 February.
In, he is seen circling the date on a calendar.Gromit has no visible mouth and expresses himself through facial expressions and body language. Originally intended to voice Gromit, but Park dropped the idea when he realised how Gromit's thoughts and feelings could be known through movement with some canine noises on rare occasions. Many critics believe that Gromit's silence makes him the perfect, with a expressiveness that drew favourable comparisons to. He does at times make dog-like noises, such as yelps and growling. Nick Park says: 'We are a nation of dog-lovers and so many people have said: 'My dog looks at me just like Gromit does!' 'Generally speaking Gromit's tastes are more in vogue than those of Wallace; this being one of the many ways they contrast against each other as characters. Gromit seems to have a significant interest in encyclopaedic, classical and philosophical literature, and popular culture, including film and music.
Electronics for Dogs has been a firm favourite since, and in Gromit's bookshelves feature titles such as Kites, Sticks, Sheep, Penguins, Rockets, Bones, and Stars, while he is seen reading The Republic, by Pluto (a nod to the and a pun on ) and Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky (a pun on ). Gromit's various possessions make extensive use of puns: features ' Pup Fiction' , ' The Dogfather' , ' Where Beagles Dare' , ' Bite Club' and ' The Bone Identity' all as book titles, and ' Citizen Canine' as a film poster. His taste in music has been shown to cover, 'Poochini' (a play on ), 'McFlea' , 'The Beagles' and 'Red Hot Chili Puppies'.Gromit gains his own love interest in, when he becomes attached to Fluffles, a poodle. Fluffles reciprocates his affection and joins Wallace and Gromit delivering bread at the end of the film, and the three drive off into the sunset, making a delivery and listening to ' (performed, according to the record cover, by 'Doggy Osmond').named one of its new prototype explorer robots after Gromit in 2005.
On 1 April 2007, announced that Gromit would stand in for for a three-month period, promoting children's DVDs in its UK stores. Location. Gromit sorts the mail at his house where he hopes to find a (scene from )Although not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s, reinforced by an A–Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. In The Wrong Trousers, Gromit picks up a letter at the Wallace and Gromit residence addressed to '62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan'. The address includes a postcode of WG7 7FU, though this does not match any street in Wigan, whose postcodes begin with the letters. This address can be seen in the Cracking Contraptions episode 'Shopper 13'.Wallace's (voiced by ) comes from the of.
Near the beginning of A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wigan is referenced on the newspaper Wallace is reading, and near the end, while looking for somewhere appropriate to dispose of a bomb, Gromit sees the Yorkshire border from their home (a joke referencing the rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire).In the Cracking Contraptions episode ', Wallace says to Gromit, 'How do you like my soccamatic, Gromit?' The episode references famous English footballers of the 1950s and 60s, including (who played for Preston later in his career), and.Both and are small towns near in Greater Manchester, and are the names of love interests of Wallace.The nostalgic quality of Wallace and Gromit's world has been compared to 1950s. Production Stop motion technique The Wallace and Gromit films are shot using the animation technique. After detailed storyboarding, set and model construction, the films are shot one at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. In common with other animation techniques, the stop motion animation in Wallace and Gromit may duplicate frames if there is little motion, and in action scenes sometimes multiple exposures per frame are used to produce a faux.
Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace and Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day per animator. The feature-length The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took 15 months to make.Some effects, particularly the fire, smoke, and floating bunnies in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, proved impossible to create in stop motion and were rendered by specialists, MPC film.Most models were destroyed in the, but a set from A Matter of Loaf and Death is presently on display at the science centre. The set and several props from the museum featured in The Wrong Trousers survived as well, as they were being kept at the in before the fire occurred.Music The music featured in every film was written by British film composer. The theme song was used to wake up astronauts aboard space shuttle mission in May 2010. It has been suggested on BBC Radio 4's PM that the theme should become the England football supporters' song, instead of the main title theme of.
Main article:In 2007, a spin-off series Shaun the Sheep was created for the character of Shaun, first introduced in 1995's. In the series, Shaun lives with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, a traditional small northern English farm. In each episode, their latest attempt to add excitement to their dull mundane life as livestock somehow snowballs into a fantastic -style escapade, most often with the help of their fascination with human doings and devices. This usually brings them into conflict—and often into partnership—with the farm sheepdog Bitzer, while they all are simultaneously trying to avoid discovery by the Farmer. Following the success of the series, two series of 1-minute shorts were created – Mossy Bottom Shorts and Championsheeps – followed by the short film, and a with a in production to be released in 2019.Timmy Time (2009–2012). Main article:In 2009, another spin-off series, Timmy Time, was created centering on the character from the Shaun series. In the series, Timmy and his friends have to learn to share, make friends and accept their mistakes.
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Running time30 minutes (NTSC)29 minutes (PAL)CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBudget£650,000The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British short film directed by at, featuring his characters. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by ) and his dog Gromit, following (1989). In the film, a sinister penguin uses Wallace and Gromit's robotic 'Techno Trousers' to steal a diamond.The Wrong Trousers premiered in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993. It was commercially successful, and won the 1993. It also inspired a charity fundraising day, known as 'Wrong Trousers Day', one of several events.The short was followed by two sequels, released in December 1995, and released in December 2008. Contents.Plot To pay off debts, Wallace lets the spare bedroom to a penguin, who befriends Wallace and drives Gromit from the house. The penguin takes an interest in Wallace's new 'techno trousers', which can walk on walls and ceilings, and secretly rewires them for radio control.
Gromit realises that the penguin is a wanted criminal, who disguises himself as a chicken, Feathers McGraw.Feathers forces Wallace into the techno trousers and sends him on a test run through town. Later, Gromit spies on Feathers as he takes measurements of the city museum, and discovers Feathers' plans to steal a diamond from the museum.While Wallace sleeps, Feathers marches him to the museum and uses the trousers to infiltrate the building. He uses a remotely operated crane claw, contained in a helmet he has made Wallace wear, to capture the diamond, but accidentally trips the alarm.
As Wallace wakes up, Feathers marches him back to the house and traps him and Gromit in a wardrobe at gunpoint.Gromit rewires the trousers to break open the wardrobe. He and Wallace chase Feathers aboard their model train set. Wallace disarms Feathers and frees himself from the trousers. After Feathers' train collides with the trousers, Gromit captures him in a milk bottle. The police imprison him in the city zoo.
Wallace and Gromit pay their debts with the reward money while the techno trousers walk off into the sunset.Cast. as WallaceReception The Wrong Trousers was voted as the eighteenth best British television show by the British Film Institute. It has a unanimously positive score on, with 24 reviews, 100% positive and an average score of 9.1/10. The critical consensus reads, 'An endearing and meticulous showcase of stop-motion animation, The Wrong Trousers also happens to be laugh-out-loud funny.' The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the, and the Grand Prix at the World Festival of Animated film – in 1994.The Wrong Trousers won the.See also.References.: (1977).: (1978).: (1983).: (1983).: Palmy Days (1983).: Early Bird (1983).: Late Edition (1983). (1986). (1986).
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