, Disney-Pixar's animated fantasy film about two teenage elves on a magic quest to bring back their dead father, doesn't look autobiographical.
But director Dan Scanlon says his inspiration for the film came directly from his own life. Like Holland's character Ian, Scanlon lost his father at an early age. And like the awkward teen elf, he always imagined what it would be like to speak to him again. "I lost my dad when I was a year old, and my brother was only three, so we didn't have any memories of him," Scanlon said at a press conference forat the Berlin International Press Conference, where the film had its world premiere on Friday. "I had so many questions about what my father was like and wanted to have a conversation with him. That was the seed of the idea forScanlon says even one key scene in the film was taken directly from his life.
"It was a recording of people basically talking about how dad wasn't in the room," he recalled, "so the tape was winding down, and we were thinking if we hear him at all. Finally my aunt stopped him and told him to say something. 'Hello' he said, in a really excitable way. My aunt told him to say something else. 'Goodbye' he said. 'Hello' and 'goodbye' was all we got. But to us it was magical. And it was also an inspiration for the film.
The film's world is a fantasy version of the real world. The boys live in a sprawling suburb that resembles those around Los Angeles, but populated by elves, gnomes and the occasional cop centaur. Other voice talent in
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