"stirrings" - 1 õppematerjal

Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey

children's literature or classics. For the first time it was an original story idea, cooked u p by Jeffrey Katzenberg and his team o f young animators on the company jet. T h e y were on a flight back from N e w York where they had just previewed their latest work, Beauty and the Beast. Katzenberg, a recent a n d enthusiastic convert to animation, engaged the animators in a discussion o f the m o m e n t when they first felt the stirrings o f adult­ hood. H e related his own m o m e n t o f feeling he h a d become a man, and they all realized it was an interesting thing to make a movie about. T h e y began discussing formats a n d settings that could support such a story, a n d eventually hit on the idea o f doing it entirely in the world o f African animals. Disney had not done an exclusively animal-driven animated feature since Bambi in 1 9 4 2 , so it seemed fresh