Film Analysis: Analysis Of Adam's 'Claymator'

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AUTEURS THEORY He is a true auteur, as he himself calls the same. His movies are generally based loosely on his family and friends (e.g.-Uncle, Cousin and Brother. He says he love telling stories and biographies about his family and friends, which is why he came up with the word ‘clayography’ He never felt comfortable calling himself an 'animator’ or ‘claymator’. He thought he makes clay biographies. Therefore Adam calls each of his works a "Clayography" - Clay animated biography. All his movies have narrations. He says that he likes it when someone guides you through the film. His animations has a lot of feelings. It can make you amused, cry, happy and even angry. His movies are spectacular, and it's got an ability to communicate its concepts very well, which live action movies and other means of storytelling simply cannot. There is a pattern in his working style. All his works are about 'accepting difference'. It's an universal truth, that we all look for acceptance and love. Also that we are all different and unique from each other. Also, his films have a shared sense of national identity. That is I think because he was born in Australia and resided for a long time in Melbourne. His use of traditional 'in-camera' technique is notable. Means instead of editing shots digitally in a computer after shooting, he instead shoots the entire sequences in strict order. Therefore the final editing is already completed when the film is developed. He does not use any digital additions or computer generated imagery to enhance the visual aesthetics of his film. It's all done while shooting only. His choices of topics are quite different, from what is a mainstream storyline now a days in Hollywood animated movies. While everyone in Hollywood ... ... middle of paper ... ...er of a room on a chair, and take long breaths. Mary asks for sorry, and burns all her reports. But Max did not reply her. After a long time, when he thought that she was the only friend he had and she had realised her mistake a long time back. Max forgive him. These are few elements that holds us to the film. All these experiences are consciously and unconsciously related to a spectator. From the starting of the film, the story starts building around one of the central character Mary - an 8 years old girl, to whom, we slowly start relating with our childhood. As she starts learn things, we remember our days of childhood, when even we had our point of view about the things in the world. We remember learning the same way as we grew up. The film starts with the very basic stage, what we also call a mirror stage. It introduces to us the same way as we did to ourselves.

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