The Legend of Ochi (2025) Official Trailer
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TaraDeS — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 11:26 PM)
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Official Trailer
We watched this movie today.
To put it this way, everyone was surprisingly calm and excited from beginning to end.
Of course, children always have a few questions when it comes to fairy tales.
And this is a great fairy tale with a cute creature who looks to me like a blue-faced Mogwai.
And an overwhelming cinematography in a fantastic landscape with touching music.
Fairy tales always convey life wisdom and warnings.
And these are more important today than ever:- Break down your prejudices.
- Truly get to know your surroundings.
- Don't trample everything down with violence.
- Preserve the beautiful nature.
- Despotism stifles development and joy in life, get rid of it.
- Peaceful coexistence is possible if you understand the other (nice little beetle twist!).
All this isn't new (except the beetles
) and the movie doesn't reinvent it.
But the realism that the puppeteers breathed into these Ochis is amazing.
Cute little Ochi and pretty dangerous looking adult Ochis.
I especially liked the mother Dasha (Emily Watson) and enjoyed to identify with her…wishful thinking.
Willem Dafoe as the despotic father fits his role perfectly.
The real discovery is daughter Yuri (Helena Zengel).
She isn't a Hollywood beauty in the usual sense, but very expressive in her quiet manner.
The end credits show IN MEMORY OF ALAN SAXON who is the late father of director Isaiah Saxon.
If you look at the photos of his memorial, you can see that he was a good father.
https://alansaxon.com/photos/
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TaraDeS — 10 months ago(June 04, 2025 03:14 AM)
And here's the confirmation.
Almost 40 artists & technicians worked on Baby Ochi, from motorized facial movements to skin and fur.
Keeping in mind the arc of the narrative, Saxon realized the imagined life form needed to fit in a backpack to travel with Yuri wherever she goes. A self-anointed
"amateur primatologist"
who has given talks about the evidence for the existence of Sasquatch, Saxon leaned into real-life primates for his design, primarily the endangered
golden snub-nosed monkey
found in remote Chinese mountains.
"The goal was that it felt like it was something from nature, not something from a movie,"
says Saxon,
"I want kids to accept that maybe this is a real place and maybe this is a real animal that they just haven’t discovered yet."
Saxon maximized the disarming appeal of the snub-nosed monkey by giving his adorable Baby Ochi larger eyes and ears. Though some early reviews pointed to the
"Gremlins"
or
“The Mandalorian’s”
Grogu (a.k.a. Baby Yoda) as likely references, Saxon maintains he has never seen any of those.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-04-15/legend-of-ochi-puppetry-animatronics-creature-a24-isaiah-saxon-john-nolan
April 15, 2025
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