MirrorMask

Titolo originale: MirrorMask
Regia: Dave McKean |
Anno: 2005
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Fantasy
Tag: dreams |
Cast: Stephanie Leonidas | Jason Barry | Rob Brydon | Gina McKee | Dora Bryan | Stephen Fry | Robert Llewellyn | Lenny Henry | Nik Robson | Simon Harvey | Eryl Maynard | Andy Hamilton | Eve Pearce | Victoria Williams | Rick Allen | Iain Ballamy |

Helena Campbell è un adolescente che lavora svogliatamente come acrobata presso il piccolo circo gestito dai genitori: quando la madre, con la quale ha un rapporto conflittuale, si ammala gravemente, Helena trascorre la notte che precede la delicata operazione in un mondo alternativo, nato dalla sua fantasia, che prende vita durante il sonno. Tra realtà e fantasia, la ragazza compie il viaggio che la porterà a diventare grande e a salvare il reame in pericolo…

Approfondimenti

During the circus montage at the beginning of the film, there is a brief shot of a hand balancing an [...] D
Dave McKean: the motion capture performer for the porcupine wearing braces. His character also appea [...] D
Total number of scenes in the script: 135Total number of pages in script: 107 3/4 D
Total number of digital fish in the film: 42. D
When Helena reaches for the copy of "The Complete History of Everything" in the library, the book di [...] D
Unusually for a Jim Henson production, there are no puppets in this film (not counting the socks Hel [...] D
According to Neil Gaiman, this film was made as a straight-to-DVD film; but this film finally got a [...] D
Highest number of setups in a day: 48Number of days on location: 10Number of days in the studio: 20T [...] D
The designs were done by Dave McKean; Neil Gaiman and McKean also collaborated on the illustrated fi [...] D
Number of animators on the film: 15Number of animation days per shot D
According to an interview with Neil Gaiman, the original computers used to do all of the CG were nam [...] D
A version of the riddle Helena asks the Sphinx appears in a Batman comic written by screenwriter Nei [...] D
There were 70 masks within the film. D
The MirrorMask title is shown on the record that is playing when Helena and Valentine enter Mrs. Bag [...] D
Early in the film, Helena is playing with sock puppets, one of which she calls "Mr. Valentine." This [...] D
Was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie. The other n [...] D
Josefine Cronholm's version of Burt Bacharach's classic song "Close to You", performed in the film d [...] D