Zootopia: Systems, Fear, and the Choice to Grow
Directed by Byron Howard & Rich Moore One of the most exciting things about Zootopia isn’t just the story on screen, but the sheer number of people who clearly had a hand in shaping it. Scan the credits and you realize how collaborative this film really was. Animators, writers, storyboard artists, voice actors, musicians, designers […]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Inheritance, Morality, and the Systems We Build for Children
Directed by Tim Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has always been a story about more than candy. First imagined by Roald Dahl, whose writing trusted children with darkness, irony, and moral complexity, the story asks a quietly unsettling question: what happens when adults build systems meant to teach virtue, and then ask children to […]