![]() There was Budweiser the bullfrog that suffocated in a plastic bag before I could get him home from the pet store. As a kid, I had a terrible track record of keeping small animals alive. Kaitlyn: I was definitely working through some bad house pet karma making Snowy. For the first couple years of the study, every time a male student with a Northern English accent would talk around the animal, she would get really upset, suggesting the ability to connect a voice to a person and a negative experience.ĭo you have pets currently? Any from your childhood that you’d like to tell us about? Wilkinson also recounted an amazing story of a female bearded dragon found in a box in the woods. Turtles can even store memory for at least 18 months and possibly much longer.Īlex: Dr. As you can imagine, Larry was thrilled to hear this. She told us that Snowy is able to recognize Uncle Larry’s face and his voice. Anna Wilkinson, our turtle expert, corrected these misconceptions. Turtles don’t do much of anything when they’re cold and the conclusion from these experiments was that turtles are sluggish and mostly unresponsive. They were a misunderstood species for decades because scientists originally tested them in cold conditions. Kaitlyn: We were shocked to learn just how aware turtles are of their environment. What’s the most surprising bit of science you learned making this film? Surely, there’s a Jeopardy! question hidden in this fictional turtle question… ![]() In a very particular order: Filburt ( Rocko’s Modern Life), Grand Master Oogway ( Kung Fu Panda), Bowser, Squirtle, Leonardo ( TMNT), and Franklin. ![]() We dug deep into the memory banks to answer this one. Maybe it’s their calm disposition that’s refreshing to be around? They really are the anti-dog of house pets. Why do turtles have such a cult-like following? Who are your favorite pop culture turtles?Īlex: What’s the deal with turtles? The legion of turtle fans out there is still a mystery to us. If he could make it through being stuck in a tank for 25 years, we figured we could make it through lockdown. Snowy the turtle was a source of strength, a kindred spirit. Filipp Kotsishevskiy, our colorist, set up a monitor on his porch and blacked out the windows with trash bags while we communicated over speaker phone.Īlex: We didn’t intend to make a movie about being in lockdown, but the film helped us make it through that first scary year of the pandemic by keeping us distracted. Our coloring sessions happened in the middle of winter, at the height of the first outbreak when we were still bleaching our groceries in the bathtub. There were too many zoom calls to count and lots of stretching video conferencing technology to its limits. As a result, we ended up doing all of post-production remotely. Our editors Katharina Stroh and Alexander Heringer (originally from Germany) were back home for a visit and got stuck behind the travel ban. Kaitlyn: We wrapped production just before lockdown. How did the pandemic factor into the making of Snowy? For the audience and for us, it’s a comedy. Kaitlyn: For Snowy, this story is a tragedy, maybe even a horror film. Last year, Uncle Larry passed out from laughing too hard. ![]() Going to Thanksgiving with them is like watching a Comedy Central roast. Uncle Larry and everyone on that side of the family is hilarious. Our families share a dry and morbid sense of humor which feels like home to us. I am being forced to read this against my will…” While all ideas are worth trying, not all ideas are good. We even floated the idea of opening the film with Larry reading from a cue card in broken French, “I am the owner of a small pet turtle. Maybe the moral is that it’s easy to convince ourselves we’re doing right by someone or something, but when more information presents itself we realize what we’re offering is woefully inadequate.Īlex: When working together or coming up with ideas, Kaitlyn and I very much subscribe to the philosophy of YES…AND. For a cold blooded animal, this was far from an ideal habitat. But Snowy was living out his days in a cold dark basement without much warmth or sunlight. On the one hand, he fed Snowy well-balanced meals and diligently cleaned his tank. Without having all the information, Larry thought he was doing right by Snowy. Kaitlyn: There’s also something to takeaway from Uncle Larry’s character that we haven’t fully teased out ourselves. ![]()
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