Turning Red

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Overall, it’s a shame that, because of the pandemic, Disney opted to pull Turning Red from its planned theatrical release. And if you’ve got an extra 45 minutes to spare, Disney+ has also released a companion documentary about the making of the film. As Disney did recently with Encanto, first-time feature director Shi infuses her film with a healthy knowledge and respect for a foreign culture. After all, it’s just the manifestation of a family curse that she, herself, went through when she was coming of age. Artistically inclined, Mei starts to fill her notebook with provocative sketches of a boy she (previously) swore she didn’t like. What she doesn’t realize is that her hormones are about to kick in, complicating her life in a number of ways.

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"But like anything, there's a small sliver that is kind of criticising or maybe a little intrusive, and of course as human beings it's hard not to sort of catch on to that. "I try and do that with my music - I always really try and put a message in there that people may not have heard in a pop song before or just something that makes people feel something," she said. You can listen to our interviews and hear our reviews in this week's Backstage podcast. And it wasn't until I started therapy where I actually started realising that being in the middle is a really good place to be. She also confirmed she was going to try therapy, and has told Sky News not only is she doing so but also credits her friends with helping her through the toughest times. "It's definitely a good thing to learn," she said.

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"The story of all of these friends and the family is so universal... There's emotions in 'Turning Red' that are absolutely part of a human story," she said. "It's not like I could relate to Ratatouille... I didn't even know Ratatouille was a dish," she said. That's what it kind of felt like," Wang Yuen said. Which is fine — but also, a tad limiting in its scope," O'Connell wrote. The film, which premiered Friday on Disney+, been widely hailed as a refreshing, creative look at tweendom and the awkwardness of growing up.

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So he was able to pull the chant into his own system, along with the 4*Town song, and do this awesome remix where we were like, ‘Oh my God, it works!’ But I think it worked because he’s a magician. “He was like, ‘All right, so if the 4*Town song is in this key, let’s do this—’ He worked with us to make sure that rhythmically, we were doing what we needed to be doing so he could produce the remix. “We worked with a Cantonese dialect coach, Andy. We loved him,” Shi says. In the climactic final number, the chant winds up merging with Ludwig Göransson’s score and “Nobody Like U,” one of the songs siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s wrote for Turning Red’s heartthrob boy band 4*Town. Shi wanted to make sure a native speaker was involved in developing the chant, so she and her team reached out to Herman Wong, the Hong Kong-based Asian-Pacific operations director for Disney Character Voices International, the Disney division that handles translation and dubbing services. “We were really inspired by Taoist chants that monks would do in Taoist temples,” Shi says.