Me Despicable 1 and 2 now The Minions tomorrow Me Despicable 3 . Obviously, you can not let go of your characters …
(laughs) True, I have trouble. Each time I say we do catch me, and then the producers or screenwriters come back with a great idea. Hold: I will make Moi Moche 3 because they offered me a crazy start. I immediately felt the pleasure that could take Steve Carell to play what was going to submit to it and I told myself that I could not pass it up.
The actors are so much a part of the creative process?
Completely. Gru is his creation. He influenced 99% of the animation … When you’re accompanied by talents such as Steve Carell or Sandra Bullock makes the wicked desMinions, leave them a creative space, otherwise it’s no use nothing. I like using their voice and give my interpretation of what they play.
How are born Minions?
A little accident. In the first Me, Moche and nasty we had imagined an army of villains, very muscular characters who were the dirty work of Gru. The problem is that it made him very unsympathetic. Originally the film was darker, almost gothic; Gru like Dracula and minions to trolls. It does not please me much and suddenly, to soften all that, we imagined that all these assistants Gru knew by name. Their size was reduced, we designed the yellow, we put their goggles and overalls … and we had the Minions. Once the first draft, we knew we stood a huge potential for comedy that could counterbalance the evil side of the hero.
Since the Gremlins, they act like children do?
Exactly. They are completely irresponsible, did not clearly express, and Gru like as if it was their father. The main influence was the cartoons of Warner Bros, the old Bugs Bunny. Some cartoons of that era remain what I’ve seen funnier in my life.
But how did the movie?
There are months, Chris Meledandri (the boss of the studio Illumination) asked me if I thought it was possible to make a feature film centered Minions. I accepted because I love these crazy characters. They are tailored for the animation. We could not make them live … They are very simple forms that allow to return to the fundamentals of cinema, Chaplin, burlesque, physical comedy … Brian Lynch (screenwriter) came with the idea of parallel world where everyone is naughty and was quickly imagined the genesis of these characters. Writing the script was done quite easily at the bottom.
From a narrative point of view, the Minions yet appear to have a very limited potential ….
(smile) You mean, do I have not been afraid to make a film a half hour with characters who do not speak ( or only by rumbling), which are a little beasts that are causing the acolytes of the wicked? The first year, there has been much questioned. We even had a first version where we introduced a human figure, but after a few months there has backtracked because ca became a film about this character and less on minions. It was at that point we had the idea to emerge from the group three characters: the older brother, Kevin; Stuart, teen I menfoutiste; and Bob, the awestruck kid
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You were talking about the influence of cartoons. Was there from the beginning a desire to stand out from Me, Moche … accentuating this cartoon appearance at the expense of emotion?
A little, yes, but it is inherent in the Minions. Here comes the emotion of the characters less artistic design or staging. Transposing the action in 1968, playing with Technicolor and use music that is not used to hearing in these contexts there … all this was to provoke particular emotions. Laughter, but also tension and true moments of melancholy at times.
What’s crazy is that you get to do this go by the votes of Minions that literally say nothing!
This is one of my greatest pleasures! I am alone with the micro writing nonsense, wondering what words I will use, what sounds find to make sense of it all. Often I could not do it, and then I was using real words. The magic of animation, more empathy one may have to these little fellows, that we understand well what they say it is never clear.
You work in an American world and you managed to blow up the US animated film … but what part of Europeanness he remains in your films?
A lot of people say that there is an irreverence in what I do. I quote the much Heading to Brac Gotlib an example; Sempé is also an essential reference for me. The simplicity of its boxes, the economy of its staging: one idea per plane no more! I think this rule for each of my films. But I think I mostly brings a somewhat rebellious spirit. For example: on Despicable Me 2 when the writers pitched me the story and they told me that it was a love story that would end a marriage, I urged them to review the script. As they found nothing more satisfying, they asked me to give my version of a marriage acceptable and I immediately told them that he had the fourth, fifth degree, with an intro music very soft, if sustained by a very franchouillard scene where the guests would dance on the track to finish the Village People! Suddenly, it became funny. When you push the negatives in the extreme, and that shows that it is to laugh, people feel it. By doing that, I just Europeanized the original idea that was very American – very literally.
Ready for Minions 2
Hmmm …. There I accepted Moi Moche 3 , but I think it will be the last. It might be that I make a film in France, with the constraints that implies. I would also go live, but remaining very cartoon. I think there may have a way back to Tati, with the poetic and funny side of his films, but frankly burlesque. We’ll see …
Peter Lunn
The Minions Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda with the French voice of Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet comes out on July 8 in theaters:
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