Maverick Life: Animated antics: Peter Ramsey, Miles Morales and the dawning of a new age for superheroes of colour By Julia Smuts Louw
, made life easier for large black men who like to wear hoodies on the subway). But for a black character to take onmask – in the highly competitive animation market – and scoop up a Golden Globe and an Oscar, is an amazing victory.
But, as Ramsey emphasised, it was the emotional heart and tone of the script that was the team’s guiding light as the possibilities proliferated. “The thing we had at the very beginning was Phil Lord’s treatment, which captured a really clear unique and fun tone that had a real strong emotional undercurrent. Anyone who has read those first treatments and scripts went ‘Oh my God, if you can capture this tone you’ve really got something.
CTIAF has steadily and deliberately been broadening its reach to cater to a racial majority still hugely underrepresented in the animation industry. This year, for the third year running, the festival offered a pro bono satellite programme in Khayelitsha to expose school-goers from underprivileged backgrounds to the art and business of animation and, with any luck, spark a passion.
PR: Interesting you should say that, as the idea of having a choice is very recent! I’ve been really lucky up till now to have worked on projects and with film-makers that were in line with my tastes and what I was interested in: I got to work with Francis Coppola whom I idolised, David Fincher who I was a huge fan of, Ang Lee. It really is just about being prepared for opportunities when they pop up.PR: I guess so. I would say that. A lot of films I worked on, I just needed a job.
JSL: It’s such an important lesson because for certain types of personalities, if it’s not as good as what you see in your head, you don’t even want to start in case it’s not perfect. PR: Yeah! On Spider-Verse more than anything else I’ve ever done because so much of that movie was iteration upon iteration, and not being precious in the effort to get to the vision we all had for it.I had a colleague who said that from the opening scene, he started crying. Because it’s this surprising, soft underbelly of representation. It’s not the grand superhero, it’s just a kid singing to himself, not really knowing the words.
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