Jon Favreau likens the film to Big (1988), a film about a kid who is forced to grow up too quickly and learn his way around the big city. The director likes the comedy Will Ferrell brings to the film. "But if you don't have a good story and an emotional aspect to the story people grow weary of just one comic bit after the next. I think they want to see a story that engages them on an emotional level." Favreau brings up the bonding moments between Buddy and Walter like when Walter tells his son he doesn't have to drink the coffee. He also mentions the different ways Buddy changes throughout the film, how he learns from the city and the people in it. Buddy reading Pigmalion is kind of a reference to that.

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