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11.01.2022 - 00:41 / deadline.com
Everybody gets old eventually, but Us Again writer-director Zach Parrish wants everyone to appreciate what they have in the moment. Parrish uses only dance, no spoken words, in this Disney animated short which has been shortlisted for the Best Animated Short Film category at the Oscars this year.
Us Again follows Art, an older man who has lost his sense of purpose and ignores his wife, Dot, when she tries to get him to leave the apartment and enjoy the day with her. He regrets the decision after she leaves, and walks onto the fire escape to see where she’s gone. Suddenly it begins to rain, and the rain makes him younger and gives him the confidence and ability to go out and dance with the love of his life once again.
DEADLINE: What was your inspiration for Us Again?
ZACH PARRISH: At the time of the genesis of the idea, I was in my early thirties, and I was starting to feel the aches and pains that go along with crossing that threshold. I was starting to have this new desire to have a younger version of myself again, which obviously 30 is not very old. But I talked to my mom about it, she was in her early sixties at the time, and she was always talking about all the cool stuff that she was gonna do when she grew up. And it really made me see how different our perspectives were on age. By my own definition, I was old because I was looking backwards and, by her definition, she was young because she was looking forwards. The duality of perspectives of aging, I think we have just felt like that was something to dip into. And so, I started thinking about these “fountain of youth” ideas and very quickly landed on the idea of this couple who become young in the rain and get to have this one night out dancing.
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cancer, at the age of 36. Following the tragedy, her loved ones have organized a memorial in honor of the mom-of-two. A recent post on her Instagram post read: ‘A Celebration of Life In Loving Memory of Melanie K Ham, June 29, 1985 – January 12, 2022.
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The segment is based on George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” and features characters designed to look like the caricatures of famed artist Al Hirschfeld (who was a consultant on the “Rhapsody in Blue” segment in “Fantasia 2000”), many of whom dance, drum and ice skate to the rhythms of Gershwin’s jazz-infused classical score as they follow their dreams in Depression-era New York. Parrish tells TheWrap that he regularly invoked “Rhapsody In Blue” as a comparison when pitching his vision of “Us Again” to his colleagues at Disney.
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