Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Ashley
Perfect. Perfect. I will put that in the show notes when we publish the episode. So, I like to end the interviews just by asking my guests, is there anything you’ve seen recently that you thought was really great? Anything on HBO, Hulu, Netflix that you’ve been watching that our screenwriting audience might want to check out?
Brandon Violette
Yeah, so I have a toddler, so my viewing is very, Skew is very young. But we watched Elio, the Pixar film, and that was something that, I can’t wait until she can sit through a whole movie, and I’m really excited to have a little movie watching parties with her. She’s not quite there yet with just how old she is, but she sat for the longest that she sat through with Elio, and we finished it, we watched it in chunks, but I was able to talk to her about, oh these are the aliens, and he’s looking for a friend, and just having to explain the story so simply to someone that young is, I think, a testament of good storytelling because I knew how to summarize it, I knew how to explain it in a way that made sense to her, and I thought, oh, that’s a good test, can you explain what you’re watching to a toddler, and then they’ll repeat that, and they’ll know what to look for, and so Elio was a lot of fun.
