The peanuts have had a long and fruitful race in the comics, on television and even in the cinema, but we have seen less in recent years, especially after the death, a quarter of a century ago, of the creator Charles Schulz. So when something fresh happens, each peanut fan hangs its tight blue safety blanket, wondering if it will be the magic.
Presents of peanuts: a summer musicalArriving on Apple TV + next month, could be this moment, and mainly because the trailer goes where no content of peanuts in memory has happened before.
Presents of peanuts: a summer musical, Arriving on one of the best streaming services on August 15, at least based on the trailer that dropped this week, a slightly familiar peanut tale. The gang is back at the summer camp, which is likely to close, and Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Franklin, Peppermint Patty and Snoopy must come together and find a way to save it. The torsion for most people is that it is a musical, peanuts first in almost 40 years.
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As animated by Wild Brain, the film is closely in the style of pen pens and original enchets of Schulz and the appearance of some of the classic television specials of peanuts, but with notable exceptions. Imaging is more dynamic and, thanks to shade, all the characters just have a little more dimension. It is not at all the CGI level as the 2015 somewhat received The peanut film (It was good, just give it a chance), but it is always noticeable. It is a look that was introduced for the first time when Apple TV + launched the series “Snoopy Presents”.
“It had to be a bridge between The peanut film Complete CGI and simple 2D style of The Snoopy show series. We have created this hybrid that we called “improved 2D” – it was created by lighting effects and digital improvements, “said e -mail.
However, 44 seconds, the trailer reveals a decision that was so surprising, I resumed my breath: there was the shortest representation on the screen and even a small animation of peanut characters in 1950, when Schulz began to write the emblematic strip.
You would be forgiven not to notice. I suspect that most people watching the trailer supposed that the animation studio Wild Brain simply made a random decision to try to represent the characters as they could have seen when they started to attend their beloved camp. In reality, all the characters were exactly as they appeared in the first decade before Charlie Brown adopted his round sign of signature and Snoopy has gone from an imperros puppy in the city dog on the city that he is today.
It turns out that they had used this style once before in a special Apple TV + Peanuts that I missed.
“Style children from the 1950s had not been used before we did the Snoopy presents: Marcie unique in its kind [2023] Special and introduces CARLIN and a few other children in kindergarten. It was the first time that my father’s 1950s distribution was put in animation. It was the idea of my son Bryan, and one of my favorite moments in the film, “said Craig Schulz by e-mail.
Despite this, I was so caught up in the images and, honestly, moved, that I barely paid attention to the rest of the trailer. I had to go back and see how the children of peanuts seem to come together in actions and songs.
Presents of peanuts: a summer musical Can also bring magic because, it is also written, partly by the son of Charles Schulz, Craig, and his grandson, Bryan, and he understands all the familiar tropes like Schroeder playing his tiny piano, the frustration of Sally, the pork pen by Charlie Brown, snoopy being incredibly cool, the pork pen and adult Trombones.
A small side note here. When I talked to the original A Christmas Charlie Brown Television producer Lee Mendelson in 2015 on the way they developed adult “voices”, he said:
“We have chosen not to show the adult. So I asked our musical director, Vince Guaraldi,” would there be an instrument that we could use as her to imitate what an adult for a child looks like? “”
Guaraldi, on the instinct, wrote a trombone player.
Everyone who heard the sound “Wah Wah” of the instrument loved him, including the creator of Peanuts Schulz, who simply said: “It’s great”.
Maybe this new music special will also be great. I have great hopes, especially given the way even the trailer gave me all the sensations.
