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Ratatouille (film)

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Ratatouille

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Directed by Brad Bird
Jan Pinkava
(Credited as co-director)
Produced by Brad Lewis
Written by Brad Bird
Story:
Jan Pinkava
Jim Capobianco
Brad Bird
Emily Cook
Kathy Greenberg
Starring Patton Oswalt
Lou Romano
Peter Sohn
Brad Garrett
Janeane Garofalo
Ian Holm
Brian Dennehy
Peter O'Toole
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography Robert Anderson
Sharon Calahan
Editing by Darren T. Holmes
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Release date(s) RUS June 28, 2007
NAJune 29, 2007
FRA August 1, 2007
AUS
PHI August 28, 2007
September 6, 2007
UK October 12, 2007
Running time 111 min
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget US$150 million[1]
Gross revenue Worldwide: US$620,261,049
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Ratatouille (pronounced /ˌrætəˈtuːiː/, /-ˈtwiː/; French: /ʁatatuj/[2]) is a 2007 Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA Award- and Grammy Award-winning animated feature film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef, but is pressured to do otherwise by the disapproval of his family and the prejudice of humans. Using a somewhat hapless garbage boy as a means through which to indulge in his art, Rémy meets yet another obstacle in the form of a famous as well as antagonistic food critic named Anton Ego, "The Grim Eater." The film was the eighth movie produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. It was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States, to both critical acclaim and box office success. The title is named for the French peasant dish ratatouille of which a variation is served in the film, and a pun on the main character Rémy being a rat.

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Plot

Rèmy is a rat who lives in the attic of a French country home with his brother, Émile, and his father, Django, the leader of a rat colony. Inspired by France's recently deceased top chef, Auguste Gusteau, Rèmy does his best to live the life of a gourmet. Underappreciating his exceptionally discerning sense of smell, his clan puts him to work sniffing for rat poison in their food.

The resident of the house, an old woman, discovers the colony. As they flee, Rèmy grabs a cookbook by Gusteau. He is separated from the others and floats through the storm sewer to Paris on the book written by Gusteau, following the chef's image to his namesake restaurant, now run by former sous-chef Skinner. As Rémy looks into the kitchen from a skylight, a young man with no culinary talent, Alfredo Linguini, arrives with a letter of introduction from his recently deceased mother, and is hired to do janitorial duties. While cleaning, Linguini spills a pot of soup and attempts to cover up his mistake by adding nearby ingredients. Horrified, Rèmy drops into the kitchen and attempts to fix the ruined soup rather than trying to escape. Linguini catches Rèmy in the act, just as Skinner catches Linguini. During the confusion, some of the soup is served to a food critic. To everyone's surprise, the soup is a success.

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Rèmy discovers that he can control Linguini's movements by pulling on his hair.

The kitchen's sole female cook, Colette, convinces Skinner not to fire Linguini, and Skinner agrees, provided Linguini can recreate the soup. Just as Skinner makes his decision, he sees Rémy trying to escape out the window and pandemonium breaks out in the kitchen. Linguini traps Rèmy in a jar, whereupon Skinner orders him to take Rémy away and dispose of him. Knowing Rèmy was the one who fixed the soup, Linguini cannot bring himself to kill him and begins to talk to him. As he tells Rémy about his problems, he notices that Rémy seems to understand him and responds with a series of nods and other gestures. The unlikely pair begin an alliance by which Rémy (now referred to by Linguini as "Little Chef") secretly controls Linguini's cooking in return for his protection. The two perfect a marionette-like arrangement by which Rémy tugs at Linguini's hair to direct his movements while hidden under Linguini's toque blanche.

Skinner, suspicious of Linguini's success, plies Linguini with vintage Château Latour in an unsuccessful attempt to discover the secret of his unexpected talents and of his knowledge of rats, and decides to have him spend the night cleaning up the kitchen. The next morning, hung over and disheveled, Linguini nearly confides his secret to Colette. Desperately trying to stop Linguini, Rèmy pulls his hair, making him fall on Colette and leading the two to kiss. They begin dating, leaving Rémy to feel abandoned. Meanwhile, Skinner learns from the letter of introduction that, unknown to everyone but his mother, Linguini is in fact Gusteau's son and stands to inherit the restaurant and imperil Skinner's ambition to exploit Gusteau's image to market prepared frozen foods. Then, one night, Rèmy and his colony are reunited. At the ensuing party, he surprises his father by saying that he is not going to stay with the colony, but instead continue to live near the humans. In response, Django shows Rèmy the storefront of a rodent control business, which is filled with dead rats in traps. Rèmy, though horrified, refuses to believe that enmity between the two species is incontrovertible, and leaves.

While scrounging for food, Rèmy discovers Gusteau's will, which, after a chase by Skinner, he presents to Linguini. Linguini assumes ownership of the restaurant, fires Skinner, and becomes a rising star in the culinary world. Later, Rèmy and Linguini have a quarrel, wherein Linguini decides that he no longer needs Rèmy's help. Rèmy retaliates by leading a kitchen raid for his rat colony. Linguini attempts to apologize to Rémy, only to discover and expel his colony. Rèmy feels guilty about hurting his friend, and refuses to join them in resuming the raid.

Things come to a head the night of a planned review by food critic Anton Ego, whose contemptuous earlier review of Gusteau's cooking reduced his five-star restaurant to four stars and eventually led to Gusteau's untimely death (which dropped his restaurant's rating down to three stars). When asked what he would like for the evening, Ego challenges them by telling the staff to have Linguini prepare whatever He dares serve him. Rèmy returns to help Linguini impress Ego; Linguini, unable to cook without the rat's guidance, admits the truth to the staff, leading them all to walk out. Colette returns after thinking of Gusteau's motto, "Anyone can cook!" Django, inspired by his son's courage in continuing his dream, brings the entire rat colony to cook under Rèmy's direction, while Linguini, discovering his true talent, waits tables at lightning speed on roller skates. Rèmy decides to prepare ratatouille, a traditional dish that would not usually be considered haute cuisine, but does it so well that the first bite of it leads Ego to relive a childhood memory of his mother. Ego assumes that Linguini is the chef, but Linguini is only his waiter, which prompts Ego to ask to meet the chef. After a frantic consultation with Colette, Linguini and Colette insist he must wait until the rest of the diners have left. At the end of the service, Rèmy is revealed as well as all the other rats and Rèmy's marionette technique. A changed man, Ego writes a glowing review, declaring that the chef at Gusteau's is the greatest chef in all of France.

In the dénouement Gusteau's is closed by a health inspector, who finds the rats after being tipped off by Skinner, and Ego loses his job and his credibility when the public discovers he has praised a rat-infested restaurant. Everything is for the best, however; with Ego as investor and regular patron, Linguini, Colette, and Rèmy open a successful new bistro called "La Ratatouille," which includes a kitchen modified to accommodate Rèmy as Chef and hidden dining facilities for rats in its attic. The film ends with the image of a huge line of people standing outside of the restaurant, which bears a sign with a rat wielding a toque and a cooking spoon.

Production

Jan Pinkava came up with the concept and directed the film from 2001, creating the original design, sets and characters and core storyline.[3] Lacking confidence[4] in Pinkava's story development, Pixar management replaced him with Bird in 2005.[5][6][7] Bird was attracted to the film because of the outlandishness of the concept and the conflict that drove it: that kitchens feared rats, yet a rat wanted to work in one.[8] Bird was also delighted that the film could be made a highly physical comedy,[5] with the character of Linguini providing endless fun for the animators.[9] Bird rewrote the story, with a change in emphasis. He killed off Gusteau, gave larger roles to Skinner and Colette,[10] and also changed the appearance of the rats to be less anthropomorphic.[11]

Because Ratatouille is intended to be a romantic, lush vision of Paris, giving it an identity distinct from previous Pixar films,[5] director Brad Bird, producer Brad Lewis and some of the crew spent a week in the city to properly understand its environment, taking a motorcycle tour and eating at five top restaurants.[12] There are also many water-based sequences in the film, one of which is set in the sewers and is more complex than the blue whale scene in Finding Nemo. One scene has Linguini wet after jumping into the Seine to fetch Rémy. A Pixar employee (Shade/Paint Dept Coordinator Kesten Migdal) wearing a chef uniform and apron jumped into Pixar's swimming pool to see which parts of the suit stuck to his body and which became translucent from water absorption.[13]

Food design

A challenge for the filmmakers was creating computer-generated food animations that would appear delicious. Gourmet chefs in both the US and France were consulted,[11] and animators attended cooking classes at San Francisco-area culinary schools,[14] to understand the workings of a commercial kitchen. Sets/Layout Dept Manager Michael Warch, a culinary-academy trained professional chef prior to working at Pixar, helped teach and consult animators as they worked. He also prepared dishes used by the Art, Shade/Paint, Effects and Sets Modeling Departments.[15][16] Celebrity chef Thomas Keller allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his French Laundry kitchen. For the film's climax, Keller designed a fancy, layered version of the title dish for the rat characters to cook, which he called "confit byaldi" in honor of the original Turkish name.[14] The same sub-surface light scattering technique that was used on skin in The Incredibles was used on fruits and vegetables,[17] while new programs gave an organic texture and movement to the food.[18] Completing the illusion were music, dialogue, and abstract imagery representing the characters' mental sensations while appreciating food. The visual flavor metaphors were created by animator Michel Gagné inspired by the work of Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren.[19] To create a realistic compost pile, the Art Department photographed fifteen different kinds of produce, such as apples, berries, bananas, mushrooms, oranges, broccoli, and lettuce, in the process of rotting.[20]

Character design

According to Pixar designer Jason Deamer "Most of the characters were designed while Jan [Pinkava] was still directing," "He has a real eye for sculpture."[21] For example, according to Pinkava, the critic Anton Ego was designed to resemble a vulture.[22] Rat expert Debbie Ducommun (a.k.a. the "Rat Lady") was consulted on rat habits and characteristics.[23] A vivarium containing pet rats sat in a hallway for more than a year so animators could study the movement of the animals' noses, ears, paws, and tails as they ran.[17] The cast members strove to make their French accents authentic yet understandable. John Ratzenberger notes that he often segued into an Italian accent.[12]

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