{"id":14025,"date":"2011-02-15T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=14025"},"modified":"2011-02-15T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:21:49","slug":"the-lost-thing-andrew-ruhemann-shaun-tan-2010-aus-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=14025","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Thing (Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan, 2010): AUS, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review by William Barton<\/a>. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2011.<\/p>\n

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To start this review, I will give you a visual example of what my thoughts on this film were.<\/p>\n

\"\" Great Artwork, plus<\/p>\n

\"\" A boring story, plus<\/p>\n

\"\" A truly boring narration.<\/p>\n

The Lost Thing<\/em> is up this year for an academy award for best animated short film. While the artwork for the film is really great, it has a pretty uninteresting story. I could handle the uninteresting story and just focus on the artwork and I would still think this was a great short film, BUT there was this monotone and downright annoying narration going throughout the film (no, it wasn’t Ben Stein: that would have been AWESOME!).<\/p>\n

I watched this film along with 7 other animated short films at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2011. Since The Lost Thing<\/em> was the only film on this list to get an Oscar nomination, I felt compelled to write a review of it.<\/p>\n

The Lost Thing<\/em> centers around a man who lives with his parents and collects bottle caps (interesting enough, right?). One day, on a hunt for bottle caps, the man runs across a giant steam engine\/ octopod. He then goes to the octopod DMV and sits in a dark room. Later, he takes the octopod to a haven where the creature can live peacefully with eagleoids and balloon mammals.<\/p>\n

While there wasn’t much time to develop the story further, the film really just seemed to be a vassal to display Shaun Tan’s organic steam-punk artwork. While I do appreciate the artwork for it’s originality and detail, the film itself was pretty uninteresting. I felt that adding a really boring narration throughout the film detracted from the artwork. This film would have been much better if they simply took out the narration and let it be dialogue-less. The visuals in the film were enough to tell the story, no matter how droll the story was. Adding the voice over put the fish in the proverbial shoe.<\/p>\n

To this film, I say “less words!” After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. So instead of continuing to tell you how I feel about The Lost Thing<\/em>, I’ll just sum it all up with a picture.<\/p>\n

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Review by William Barton. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2011. To start this review, I will give you a visual example of what my thoughts on this film were. Great Artwork, plus A boring story, plus A truly boring narration. The Lost Thing is up this year for an academy award for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,3,146,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011","category-short-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}