As far as the subgenre known as the “kid’s movie” goes, there’s a wide variety of tones and messages you could spot in any given corner. Just looking at the movies aimed at younger audiences, as there are titles like Inside Out 2 and Netflix’s Orion and the Dark that continue to prove that you can go pretty deep when it comes to a younger audience.
So it only seemed fair to ask actors Jacob Tremblay and Paul Walter Hauser, the people playing Orion and Dark, respectively, about the first time a kid’s movie did just that. I was able to pose that question to director Sean Charmatz and producer Peter McCown as well, seeing as we were all on hand to celebrate Orion and the Dark.
So it only seemed fair to ask actors Jacob Tremblay and Paul Walter Hauser, the people playing Orion and Dark, respectively, about the first time a kid’s movie did just that. I was able to pose that question to director Sean Charmatz and producer Peter McCown as well, seeing as we were all on hand to celebrate Orion and the Dark.
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00:00What's the first kids movie you remember going deep for you?
00:03And how would you say it inspired you afterwards?
00:05I mean, we grew up where we got some years between us,
00:08so we probably won't give the same answer.
00:10But I think mine might have been Toy Story, maybe.
00:16I think Toy Story was one where it was like, oh, are my.
00:19I was going to say the same thing, too, though.
00:21Oh, really?
00:21Yeah.
00:21Yeah.
00:22Are my toys sentient?
00:23Is this a thing?
00:24Yeah.
00:25Do they have feelings?
00:25Should I not be throwing them across the room unthinkingly?
00:30I don't know.
00:30Yeah.
00:31I mean, that just made playing with toys so much better, I think,
00:34just to get that they could be real.
00:36Yeah.
00:36Yeah.
00:37That was a big one for me.
00:38That and I just think Lion King is a really.
00:42That's crazy because that was the other one that I was thinking of saying, too.
00:45Yeah.
00:46Fathers and sons and the idea of taking your rightful place in the world
00:50and stepping into your destiny.
00:53Those are big themes.
00:55And I think this movie, you know, DreamWorks has told so many great stories
00:59from Shrek to How to Train Your Dragon.
01:01And with this one, I feel like we're really delving into some heavy material
01:06that's going to hit both adults and children.
01:08Yeah.
01:09I mean, that's crazy because those were two of the same things that came to mind,
01:12Lion King and Toy Story.
01:13Yeah.
01:15For me, it was probably Secret of Nym.
01:17That was the one that I kind of globbed onto when I was a kid.
01:20It scared the bejesus out of me.
01:23I don't know if I can say bejesus, but it did.
01:25And it was, you know, it was like that it got a little deeper.
01:29It went a layer or two deeper.
01:31That and Fox and the Hound for me explored the characters and their friendship
01:36and their bond.
01:37And it just like, you know, tore my heart apart.
01:40I remember when I was a kid.
01:41So maybe those two are the two that went deep for me early on.
01:44Yeah, for me, I think, well, there's two that come to mind.
01:48Stand By Me is one, but I know it's not a kid's movie.
01:51But as a kid, it was like a very impactful movie on me and memorable.
01:58But American Tale, I think, animated was one that really got me.
02:06And I think it's that feeling of being left, lost, abandoned,
02:12pulled apart from your family that I think really was relatable
02:17and emotional for me as a kid is like that the character is not,
02:25is basically lost, it feels like.
02:28And that had a lot of impact on me as a kid.
02:31Oh, another one is E.T.
02:32And it's not dissimilar from this story and the fact that Elliot is very smart,
02:36very wise behind his ears.
02:37And he's scared of this alien for obvious reasons at first.
02:41But then over the course of the film, he gets to know him.
02:43And then you can love something so deeply that you previously were terrified of.
02:48It was really shocking.
02:48Yeah, E.T. was a big one for me as well.
02:50I cried at the John Williams.
02:53John Williams played E.T. in Indiana Jones.
02:56And when they played the music for E.T., I was crying, man.
02:59Yeah, absolutely.