The “Zootopia” aired on M6 this evening went through many different versions before it came to us. Go back to the sequence, especially the dark and painful one, cut from a Disney feature film.
Launched on the M6 this evening, Zootopia is one of the biggest successes in the history of Disney Studios. Located in the heart of a megalopolis of incredible animals released in 2016, we follow the adventures of fox Nick Wilde, a professional swindler and rabbit Judy Hops, who dreams of leaving her villages and joining the city police.
Endowed with irresistible humor and spectacular ingenuity, Zootopia also offers a deep and sexual discourse about life in society, imagining a city where all mammals – predators or predators – transcended their wild instincts and learned to live in harmony.
A particularly original concept that could have evoked many different scenarios. Before choosing a story that we know of primarily focused on Jedi career, two directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore really considered a few other options.
One of them, mentioned in the movie bonuses, explained to us, for example, how predators managed to dominate their basic reflexes and thus were obliged to wear an electric collar from an early age.
This horrible situation that the fox Nick Wilde has always experienced was depicted in a very moving sequence, which was therefore not preserved in the final plot of the film:
“It was a very important scene in the story version where Nick was the main character”– Says director Byron Howard.
“We kept it for a long time because it was so painful. In this version, the predators had ‘exercise collars’. It was a ritual. At the age of five, the parents organized a training party where the child was given an exercise collar, which he wore for life.”
In this scene – especially difficult for Disney classics – Judy Hops and Nick Wilde try to avoid the pursuers and accidentally find themselves displaced in the first place of a birthday party: a little bear cub. Especially proud of leaving childhood and getting a collar, the young animal realizes that it is no longer possible for him to make a sound without an electric shock.
“Judy has always heard of these parties, but has never seen them”– Says director Rich Moore. “It was at this point in history when he and Nick hid from the mobsters and he saw for the first time what it was like to give a training collar to a predator. And that allowed him to better understand Nick’s plight.”
In this version of the film, which focuses on artificial training of predators, Nick Wilde also opened a hidden amusement park for his comrades. The facility, disguised as a dental office, allowed lions, bears, foxes and other predators to remove their collars for a day and howl during a dizzying journey.
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