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Article: Mr. Indelible: Brad Bird's The Incredibles may have left a permanent mark on filmmaking, but animation directors still can't get no respect in Hollywood.(The Movie Issue)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- February 1, 2005
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ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS anyone should know about the working lives of animation directors is just how fussy their actors--or "characters," to the rest of us--can get on the set. Not Barbra Streisand-Tippi Hedren fussy; more like full-blown, plutonium-enriched, no-wire-hangers Joan Crawford fussy. Here, for example, is a shortlist of on-set tantrums that director Brad Bird tolerated while filming his second feature, The Incredibles, which concerns the adventures of the uncommonly, talented Parr family: Violet Parr's raven hair detaches from her scalp midscene, floats off, and then disintegrates. Bob Parr walks naked onto the set impaled by a ramrod-stiff version of ...