![]() ![]() That is one reason the list of credits today, compared with that for a movie made 50 or 75 years ago, is so tediously long. This is giving tap new recognition?Īn increasingly important aspect of an agent's job these days is to haggle over credits. There, on of 14, between the listing for Lucinda Glenn as production coordinator: animation, and Alexandra Gunter as additional production coordinator, is Savion Glover, motion capture dancer. Miller felt the picture could not have been made.Ĭurious, I went to, the Web site for all things cinematic, and printed out the film's complete cast and crew. There are the four writers and the one composer and four executive producers and three producers.īut no mention whatsoever of Savion Glover, the artist without whom Mr. ![]() There is a special oval boasting about the presence of Prince and Gia Farrell on the soundtrack. The stars who provide the characters' voices (Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Hugo Weaving) are listed twice, once in the middle of the page above the title and again down below with still more voice-over actors, in the credits proper, those that cover those happily tapping feet. The film's multiple award nominations are trumpeted. In a recent full-page "Happy Feet" advertisement in The New York Times there is a giant picture of Mumble, his feet obscured by more credit boilerplate. Glover listed way down the line, as Mumble's dancer and choreographer. Glover's presence, and his role as tap's personification?Īs the film's endless credits crawl past, one finds Mr. Miller had done a noble deed, reminding the world of the glory of tap, and that "Happy Feet" would inspire "a resurgence in the dance, to really help us maintain our presence." Which, in turn, looks unmistakably Savion - the widely spaced feet brushing the floor (ice), the dazzling ornamental flourishes, the spot-on musicality that distinguishes all of Mr. And then how he slipped into his motion-capture suit and went through his paces, the results being transformed into the animation that became Mumble. Glover enthusiastically threw himself into the project, learning to dance, penguin style, with his body upright and his hands at his side (which sounds rather like Irish step dancing), looking straight ahead rather than glumly downward, as is his wont. Glover is "without question the greatest living tap-dancer."īoth articles went on to describe how Mr. Miller told Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post that he "knew the greatest animators in the world would take a lifetime to pull off the nuances of dancing that a gifted dancer is able to pull off," adding that Mr. "Miller was convinced the only way to tell the story of Mumble," Sheigh Crabtree wrote in The Los Angeles Times, "was to cast the virtuoso hoofer." Glover to don a motion-capture body suit and become the tapping feet of our tap-dancing-fool hero. George Miller, the director, lead screenwriter and a producer, has granted interviews telling how the whole film hinged on persuading Mr. I am concerned here with higher matters, more particularly higher matters relating to the art of the dance. Or even that staring down our hero penguin's throat, with all those layers of pink mucus membrane, looks creepily clinical. Or that it makes absolutely no sense, even as a fairy tale, that the world would unanimously stop fishing in Antarctic waters because one penguin inspired his entire flock, or herd, or school, to tap dance. Never mind that the setting - penguins huddled on the ice - looks like a shameless rip-off of "March of the Penguins," even though the filmmakers righteously insist they had their idea four years ago, before that waddling documentary became a worldwide hit. Glover is Mumble, or Mumble's dancing moves. Glover looked like an unstoppably cheerful penguin. ![]() Almost exactly like the dancing of Savion Glover, at least if Mr. He's a star, Mumble is, and for all his charm the reason is that he can dance up a storm.įor lovers of tap dance, his dancing looks powerfully familiar. And dance he does, joyously and brilliantly, in several really hilarious production numbers. Children of all ages and such.Īnd why not? Here we have an unstoppably cheerful penguin, Mumble, who can't sing (which for some reason penguins are expected to do) but can dance (which for some reason is sternly discouraged). The animated film "Happy Feet" is a big hit for Warner Brothers and for Hollywood. ![]()
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