Cinema DNA
Up
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Films that shaped it
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Fitzcarraldo Atlas note
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson cited Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, a man dragging a massive steamship over a jungle mountain through sheer obsession, as the thematic blueprint for Up's second act. Carl dragging his house through the South American wilderness is Fitzcarraldo made animated, made family-film emotional. Docter documents this in commentary and interviews. Fitzcarraldo is available on Criterion Channel.
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Films it shaped
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When I started doing 'Boyhood,' I thought of the 'Up' series, not as a filmic influence, but as a conceptual influence. That was just something I had in the back of my mind. They shoot every seven years; I wanted to do it annually.
