Information about lightning dog

Thunderdog ... Translated by Taiwan Province Province.

Super Zero Dog 3D ... Hong Kong Translation

Star dog

Thunderdog

More foreign books:

American dog ... (USA) (job title)

The star Marguerite Louis Volt ... France

One hundred years later? Lle ... Germany

Borruto ... Japan.

Pioren ... Poland

Volt ... Canada (French name)

Director:

Chris williams chris williams

Bourne Howard Byron Howard

Screenwriter:

Dan fogelman Dan Fogelman ... the script.

Chris williams chris williams ... screenplay.

Starring:

John Travolta ... Lightning (sound)

Miley cyrus ... Penny (voice)

Malcolm mcdowell malcolm mcdowell ...

The cast of Lightning Dog

Director | Screenwriter | Actor | Producer | Original Music | Editing | Casting Director | Art Design | Scene Designer | Visual Effects

Director:

Chris williams chris williams

Bourne Howard Byron Howard

Screenwriter Screenwriter:

Dan fogelman Dan Fogelman ... the script.

Chris williams chris williams ... screenplay.

Actor actor:

John Travolta ... Lightning (sound)

Miley cyrus ... Penny (voice)

Malcolm mcdowell malcolm mcdowell ...

Nick swardson ... (Voice)

Dietrich Bader Dietrich Bader ..... (Voice)

Chloe Moritz Chloe Moritz ... Young Penny (voice)

J.P. Mano ... (Voice)

Susie Essman ... Gloves (voice)

Ronn Moss ... (Voice)

James lipton ... Randall Mario Poffo ... (Voice)

Mark walton mark walton ... Rhino (voice)

Sean Donaldland ... Penny's dad.

Greg german ... Agent (voice)

Dan fogelman Dan Fogelman ... Billy (voice)

Kari wahlgren ... Mindy (voice)

Grey delisle ... Penny's mother (voice)

Lino Di Salvo ... Yiqi Yao (voice)

Todd Cummings ... Joey (voice) Tim Martens ... Bobby (voice)

Kelly Hoover ... Esther (voice) (as Kelly Hoover)

Brian Stepanek ... Martin (voice)

Jeff Bennett ... Lloyd (voice)

Daran Norris ... Louis (voice)

John di maggio ... Sol (voice)

Jenny Lewis ... Assistant Director (Voice)

Steven Anderson Stephen J. Anderson ... Additional voice (voice) Joan Christopher ... Other voice (voice).

Christine Chacho Briggs ... Other voices (voices)

David Cowgill ... Other sounds (sounds)

Terry Douglas ... Other voices (voices)

Jackie Gonneau ... Other sounds (sounds)

Forest Iwasevski ... Other voices (voices)

Nathan Greno ... Other sounds (sounds)

Holly Kane ... Other voices (voices)

Daniel Katz ... Other voices (voices)

Phil Lamar ... Other voices (voices)

Anne lockhart ... Other sounds (sounds)

Dara McGarry ... Other sounds (sounds)

Scott Menville ... Other sounds (sounds)

Jonathan Nichols ... Other voices (voices)

Paul Pape ... Additional sound (sound) Lynwood Robinson ... Other sound (sound).

Keren ann Ryan ... Other voices (voices)

Tara Carrundo ... Other voices (voices)

Pepper sweeney ... Other sounds (sounds)

Jo white ... Other sounds (sounds)

Chris williams chris williams ... Other voices (voices)

Producer producer:

Lisa m Poole ... Deputy producer.

John lasseter ... Executive producer.

Clark Spencer ... producer.

Makor Wigert ... Deputy producer.

Original music:

John powell john powell

Clip movie editor:

Tim mertens

Casting director casting:

Curtis Kohler

Art direction:

Paul Felix

Set the decoration in the following ways:

Thomas Beck

Visual effects Visual effects supervisor:

John Mora

Movie type:

Animation/fantasy/comedy/family

Length:

USA: 96 minutes

Country/region:

United States of America

Dialogue language:

English

Color:

colour

Format:

35 mm wide screen system

Mixed:

SDDS/Dolby digital EX/DTS-ES

American Film Association Rating:

Because of some mild behaviors and dangers, he was rated as PG.

Level:

Portugal: M/6 (original version)/USA: PG/Ireland: G/Singapore: G/Netherlands: AL/Korea: All/Philippines: G (MTRCB)/Malaysia: U/Portugal: M/4 (dubbed version)/Canada: PG (Ontario)/Canada: G (Alberta

Release/sale date of Lightning Dog

Country/Region Release Date (Details) China

China 2008,65438+USA February 24th

USA 20081October 65438 ... (Hollywood, California) (premiere) Canada

Canada 2008165438+1October 2 1 USA

Usa 2008165438+1October 2 1 Russia

Russia 20081October 26th Philippines

Philippines 20081October 26th Poland

Poland 20081October 28th Italy

Italy 2008128 October Indonesia

Indonesia, 5-38 June+3 February 2008, Singapore

Singapore 200865438+February 4th, Israel

Israel, 5-38 June+5 February 2008, Venezuela

Venezuela 200865438+February 5th Portugal

Portal June 5438+February June 2008 5438+0 1 Ukraine

Ukraine 2008 12 18 Spain

Spain 200865438+February 65438+September Bulgaria

Bulgaria, China, February 2008 19.

China 200865438+February 24th Turkey

Turkey 200865438+February 26th Iceland

Iceland 200865438+February 26th, Korea

Korea 200865438+February 3 1 Australia

Australia 2009 1 October1Brazil

Brazil, Egypt, 5 June-12 October 2009

Egypt 200965438+1October 65438+April Argentina

Argentina June 5438, 2009+Germany1October 22.

Germany 200965438+1October 22nd Hungary

Hungary June 5, 2009 to1October 29 Estonia

Estonia June 5, 2009 to1October 30, 2009, France

France February 4, 2009 UK

Britain February 6, 2009 Sweden

Sweden 6 February 2009 Norway

Norway February 6, 2009 Netherlands

Netherlands, February 2009

Belgium February 2009

Finland February 2009 13 Czech Republic

Czech Republic February 2009 19

Japan August 2009 1

The plot of a play

Porter, a lightning dog who warns evil, punishes rape, upholds justice, shakes the top of a mountain with a bark, and burns the bad guys with anger in his eyes ―― all these are the plots in the TV series. Outside the camera, Potter is just an ordinary puppy.

In an accident, Potter was sent to new york thousands of miles away from his Hollywood studio. Unexpectedly, Potter always thought he really had extraordinary power and decided to launch an earth-shattering journey of justice! In order to get to the core of evil, he first caught Mimi, the right-hand man of the big bad guy "blue-eyed fox", and then met Arnold, a TV fan who often fantasized about venturing into Longtan, and launched a hilarious adventure that it was better to be a hero than a bad guy!

Behind the scenes production

Disney's road to innovation

John lasseter, the executive producer of Lightning Dog, can be regarded as a star-studded work. Monster Company and Robot Story both gained fame and fortune, and successfully operated Spirited Away in Miyazaki Hayao and Hal's Moving Castle in the United States. As the producer of the Disney film Lightning Dog, john lasseter said: "Disney has accumulated a lot of experience through trying in various films in recent years. Everyone should have seen Disney's innovation in Magic last year, and in Lightning Dog, we also tried to bring more different feelings to the audience. "

As for the story itself, dan fogelman, the screenwriter in charge of the screenplay, said: "The script was inspired by Lacey, the ghost dog. The dog in this film is cute and smart. When I read this book as a child, I dreamed that I would have such an obedient puppy. Of course, I never got it (laughs). Writing Lightning Dog this time is the end of one of my wishes. Of course, Potter in the movie is very different from Lacey, such as different kinds of dogs, Lacey can't talk ... animation still has its own style. And I always thought Lacey's lonely way home was really pitiful, so I designed many interesting traveling companions for him in this "lightning dog". In short, the whole scene is very lively and interesting. Porter under 3D technology is so lifelike that I almost feel that Porter is real, which is a technology that I couldn't imagine when I was young. Even though I have seen it many times, every time I walk into the studio and see Potter alive and kicking on the screen, I feel incredible. "

The director's self-breakthrough after ten years

One of the directors of Lightning Dog is chris williams, who was a screenwriter in Mulan ten years ago. In the past ten years, he didn't make much achievements in the film industry except for writing an unsuccessful script "Change the King" in 2000. Talking about this decade, chris williams seemed very emotional: "Mulan's script was an accident. At that time, I didn't think I would always follow the path of script creation, just did some behind-the-scenes animation design and so on. Commanding the lightning dog also happened by accident. One day, the producer of Disney said to me, Chris, you have been doing animation design for many years. Do you have any ideas about making your own feature films? I didn't expect it to come true so soon. As a result, when dan fogelman put the script in front of me, I thought it was a foregone conclusion. I hope this movie can make the whole family feel happy. This is Disney's goal and one of my biggest purposes in making this film. In addition to happiness, I also hope that adults can find some happiness in childhood. "

At the same time, chris williams is also responsible for co-writing the script of this film with dan fogelman. Chris williams talked about his description with dan fogelman: "Seriously, dan fogelman is very enthusiastic about this film. His play has been written for hundreds of pages. My first reaction when I saw this script was that if I wanted to shoot it all, I could only shoot an animated series! So we kept discussing how to modify the script, and the original huge plot gradually became like this. Although I have changed so much, I have to say that the original script is really great. The whole story is very instructive and the children will like it. "

Big-name dubbing actors gather

In Disney cartoons, voice actors have always been the focus of attention, and big-name stars often get together to voice. This time, the cast of Lightning Dog is no exception. The voice of the cute little Potter in the film is john Travolta, the talk of Hollywood. He seems to be very relaxed about dubbing: "The uncomfortable and fat shape of hair gel has survived, and it is not a problem to dub a puppy." It's just that I have to accommodate the picture itself, which makes me feel a little uncomfortable, because I always talk alone, which often leads me to move to the next picture after watching the dialogue picture. This often leads to laughter, but I definitely didn't mean it. "

Malcolm mcdowell, another actor who voiced the film, is even more famous. In his 60s, he starred in hundreds of films, such as clockwork orange, Romance of the Roman Empire and so on. He always voiced a Disney cartoon of all ages, and his feeling was: "I have been a villain all my life, and finally I can relax in Disney's works." I feel very happy with young people. Every day when I enter the workshop, I see all kinds of cartoons, which are completely different from what I saw when I was a child. The times are progressing rapidly. "

Real animated characters

After the voice actors were in place, the producers began to ask the animation team to create the visual elements of the lightning dog. The dog star in the movie is one of our most important roles. Animator Becky Brescie is one of the team members who created the image of Potter. For him, this job is full of challenges and fun. "We did a lot of research and spent a lot of time observing dogs in the studio. I even filmed my dogs at home to study, such as how their eyebrows move when they look at things. All dogs are impulsive animals, and their attention is easily diverted. They will suddenly go somewhere else while doing one thing. "

Animator Amy Smead added, "I think moving and crawling like a dog is very helpful. We have learned many lessons about the actions and behaviors of dogs, and we have also found three or four dogs to study, so as to observe the way they walk and trot, and their expressions when they are happy and angry. John travolta inspired us a lot, because his voice was cadence, nuanced and expressive.

Arnold's animation is one of the most challenging tasks in the film. In order to help them catch Arnold's credible movements, the company also adopted a hamster named Danke for observation. When Danke moves on plexiglass, he is photographed from below, so that artists can see how his paws move in the sphere, and they can also study the convulsions of hamsters and the movements of paws, ears and nose.

Dynamic movie soundtrack

The soundtrack of Lightning Dog requires the composer to be good at composing music for dynamic scenes to meet the emotional plot needs of Disney animated feature films. The producers of this film believe that the popular composer john powell can meet their requirements in all aspects.

Producer Clark Spencer explained, "Lightning Dog is very much like a two-in-one movie, which has both TV drama elements and real-world scenes. We demand that the music created by the composer should not only conform to the theme of the TV series, but also conform to the overall requirements of the TV series plot, and should also be suitable for the specific situation of Potter's trip to his hometown. John composed music for action blockbusters, including Bourne ultimatum and Stealing the Day. He has also made impressive achievements in providing music for animated blockbusters, such as Ice Age 2. He knows animation very well and can be said to be an indispensable composer of this film. His works are excellent, and I think the movie audience will definitely like and appreciate the transformation of this movie from the movie plot to the real world. His soundtrack first cuts into the theme of the TV series, and then slowly returns to the real world. "

John Travolta and miley cyrus sang the original songs "I thought I lost you" and "I Thought I Lost You", which are the musical highlights of this film. "I co-wrote this song with one of my partners, Jaffery Steele," Cyrus said, adding that "I am very happy to sing with john Travolta, which is something I can boast about in my life".

Film review:

This is a story about truth and falsehood. The super power of lightning dog Potter is fake, but its bravery is real; The movie story made by little girls Penny and Porter is false, but the deep friendship between them is real. In fact, Potter, as a hero, has experienced the process of disillusionment and reconstruction in the whole film. Broken heroes are fake, only reconstructed heroes are real.

When the film begins the first act, Potter explains its magic and the meaning of the lightning symbol on its back with his lightning speed, strong impact, super jumping ability and the roar that can set off a sandstorm in the desert. We already know that he is a hero riding a savior alone. When the director of the second scene revealed the behind-the-scenes props that made Potter so magical and the tips used in shooting action movies, we knew for the first time that Potter was not so magical. Of course, the lightning dog is still in the dark at this time, and he is still full of confidence. Recognizing it as just an ordinary puppy shattered its heroic image in the eyes of the audience. Later, with an accident, Potter was sent to a foreign land far away from Hollywood, and his real road to hero disillusionment gradually began.

The first is the perspective of "others": Potter is eager to find the Lord, but he is used by three pigeons, who deceive him like children; As a dog, it is much better than Mimi, a black cat, but Mimi only thinks it is a self-righteous dog, and even calls it "dog face"-that is, to love and beg; Of course there are exceptions. Arnold the hamster worships Potter very much. Although he was a nobody in this film, he never lost confidence in Potter. Even at the lowest ebb of Potter's life, he encouraged him when he wanted to give up. Perhaps this is because the little people extend the worship of heroes from the surface to the heart. The superficial hero can be shattered, but the inner hero will not be shattered. In short, in the eyes of passers-by and partners, Potter is not so magical in the movie, but a simple, gullible and hungry little guy.

But the disillusionment of heroes from the perspective of "others" is definitely not as cruel as the disillusionment of heroes from the perspective of "self". When Potter found that he couldn't beat a person with one paw, couldn't break the iron fence, couldn't open the door lock, and his roar was not as destructive as he thought, his fantasy began to fall apart, and his self-confidence suffered an unprecedented blow. He shrank back. Of course, at this time, a word from a friend is often better than thousands of drugs. Arnold's heavyweight speech under the night sky filled Potter's eyes with hope again, and he began to realize that it is not those superpowers that make people heroes, but the mind. Porter's road to hero reconstruction began.

The disillusionment of heroes from the perspective of "self" can only be saved through the reconstruction of heroes from the perspective of "self". Porter bravely extended a helping hand to Mimi who was about to fall off the train on the speeding train; It also cooperated with Arnold to produce captured boobs through wisdom. And the performance of all this has been imperceptibly influencing Potter from the perspective of "others". Mimi has a crush on Potter and wants to live with him. Arnold is also determined to follow this great hero. Although Potter once left Mimi and Arnold and went to Hollywood to look for Penny alone, his heroism deeply influenced people around him, and he was doomed not to be a "lone ranger."

At the end of the film, Potter rushed into the set with blazing flames without hesitation and hugged Penny in a sea of fire. This doomed reunion scene still deeply touched our hearts. When Potter tried his best to drag Penny to an air vent and called for help from the firemen outside with his "ordinary" roar, he actually completed the reconstruction of the hero in the eyes of the audience. What moved us was not the super powerful and confident Potter, but the Potter who experienced setbacks and challenges. He was obsessed with finding his own master, and when he knew that he had no magic, he resolutely jumped into danger for the sake of the savior, thus generate showed real self-confidence, courage and magic.

Lightning dog is such a classic Hollywood story. Heroes in people's eyes are often fake heroes, and heroes in people's hearts are real heroes.