Josh Greenbaum wanted the movie to feel as real as possible.
The Big Picture Strays, the new R-rated comedy which stars Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher and Randall Park, mashes up the concept of the family favourite talking animal movie, with 90 minutes of debauchery you'd expect from an American Pie movie. However, making a movie like this is slightly different from what you would expect. Making a talking animal film is almost an old-fashioned conceit. You get animals, you do a voiceover, you give them a character. Simple.
For director Josh Greenbaum, that element of keeping the animals real was an important facet in the making of Strays, as he explained in a conversation with Collider's Steve Weintraub. The director revealed that the film was shot before any of the voices had been cast, and that the characters were only computer-generated if it involved them doing things it would have been otherwise unsafe for real animals to do, for the purposes of comedy in the film.
Dog Days Are Not Over Greenbaum elaborated by explaining that films like Lady and the Tramp and The Lion King had done exceptional jobs of late at portraying digital animals looking as if they were in a fully realistic world, but that as a dog owner, he felt that he and other canine enthusiasts would too easily be able to spot the difference and switch off if they believed it wasn't authentic, unlike other animals that you maybe only experience for moments at a time, like in a zoo or a...
Adding Humanity to Dogs Interestingly, the choice to work with animal actors is the same as working with humans in that you get more emotion from the performances, as best referenced when we see Ferrell's Reggie have to confront his former owner Doug, with trepidation, noting that the trainers had worked with the dog in numerous different styles of walking to correctly portray the tiny canine's "fear".
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