Turning Red

2022 - 3 - 11

‘Turning Red’ tackles trial of tweens (unknown)

Turning Red” asserts the value of a metaphor signifying more than one thing. With any story centered on a 13-year-old's multidirectional hormones in the ...

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'Turning Red' confronts the messiness of adolescence with refreshing honesty (unknown)

In Pixar's new animated film, a Chinese Canadian girl awakens one morning to find that she's turned into an enormous panda. Turning Red provides a lot to ...

All of which is to say that Turning Red gives you a lot of ideas to grapple with. I also balked at moments that seemed to exaggerate for comic effect, especially when it came to Mei's mother, who's clearly been conceived along the lines of the controversial "tiger mom" stereotype. As it turns out, the red-panda effect is the result of some very ancient Chinese magic that's been passed down to Mei through the women in her family. And then one morning, in a twist that riffs on Kafka's The Metamorphosis and countless werewolf movies, she discovers that she's turned into an enormous red panda, with bright red-orange fur and a long, bushy tail. Director Shi, who wrote the script with Julia Cho, confronts the messiness of adolescence with an honesty that's refreshing in the world of studio animation. With her first feature, Turning Red, Shi leans further into the complexities of Asian parent-child relationships — and this time, she's come up with an even wilder conceit.

'Turning Red' is a turning point for Asians in film. Why is it seen as unrelatable? (unknown)

The film, directed by Domee Shi, tells the story of Meilin (played by Rosalie Chiang), a Chinese Canadian 13-year-old, battling the ups and downs of the early ...

"The story of all of these friends and the family is so universal... There's emotions in 'Turning Red' that are absolutely part of a human story," she said. "It's not like I could relate to Ratatouille... I didn't even know Ratatouille was a dish," she said. That's what it kind of felt like," Wang Yuen said. Which is fine — but also, a tad limiting in its scope," O'Connell wrote. The film, which premiered Friday on Disney+, been widely hailed as a refreshing, creative look at tweendom and the awkwardness of growing up.

Domee Shi was a Pixar intern 11 years ago—now she's the first ... (CNBC)

With the release of the Disney movie “Turning Red,” Domee Shi is the first woman to solo-direct a Pixar film in the studio's 36-year history.

After the internship, she stayed with Pixar as a staff artist and contributed to films including "Inside Out" and "Incredibles 2." It helps that Shi has now spent more than a decade with Pixar honing her animation and pitching chops. Before bringing the movie to the masses, though, she had to get senior Disney executives onboard.

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Disney Pixar's TURNING RED is the latest animated adventure to land on Disney+. It introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, ...

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Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins on 'Turning Red', Pixar During a ... (Collider.com)

Turning Red director Domee Shi shares her love for Toronto and producer Lindsey Collins talks working on the film during a pandemic.

Collins, who has worked on projects like A Bug's Life and WALL-E, also discussed working during a pandemic while making Turning Red and how Pixar's tried-and-true methods had to be reworked when the pandemic hit, forcing the team to work on the fly. Like her previous award-winning short Bao, Turning Red felt very personal so I was wondering if she pulled from any personal life experiences when it came to the story. Turning Red captures the nuance of a mother-daughter relationship, one that is rooted in love but also connection, over-protectiveness, and cultural norms.