There are big shifts in the krill populations and where they are. These massive icebergs are breaking off in the size of small countries, and they do block off the penguins. You can go down into the core of snow and ice in Antarctica and find every single volcano that ever happened in history, and every single nuclear accident. The animals that have died there are 100 years old and they almost look intact because it’s a very, very cold climate. Any subtle change that we have is somehow recorded there, in the ice layers, because it’s fixed. It’s the extremes of the planet, clearly. You can’t tell the story about this world without it being about the environment. I think that gives the film a lot more authenticity. Even the behavior of the ice and snow and wind follows nature. All the creatures are designed, pretty strictly, to the anatomy of krill and elephant seals and penguins, and then we take the main characters and exaggerate them a bit. MILLER: We tried to follow nature and natural history, as much as possible. Why was it important to include the global warming message in the film, and what do you want audiences to take away from this? And, Savion Glover is the dance equivalent of that. To see that and to sort of have a say in what they would contribute is just very exciting to me and makes me feel a sense of wonder about being a human being. The great privilege in doing this stuff is that the way the universe conspired to make these individuals, they have unique abilities that let them shine. To watch that sort of virtuosity was fantastic. I can tell you, if he’s awake, whatever he’s doing, his feet are tapping. With a movie like this, you get a lot of wonderful material that you end up not able to use because you’ve essentially got 90 minutes to tell a story, but we would watch him dance for hours. I look at it and get dazzled, but I’m told by the musicians that he’s working with such complex rhythms that it’s almost mind-boggling. He’s a brilliant percussionist who uses his body for the percussion. The first thing I had to understand about him is that he’s a percussionist. In the center of that was Savion Glover, who came down for a week. But, we had very, very good choreographers and people who really understand music, with the composer, John Powell, and the three choreographers – Wade Robson, who did the earlier material, Dein Perry, the creator of Tap Dogs, who did all the tapping later on, and Kate Wormald, who is also one of the motion capture performers for Gloria and Erik, and several others. GEORGE MILLER: Well, the first thing to know is that I can’t sing and I can’t dance, so I had no right to be there. Together with Lovelace and the Amigos, Mumble sets out across vast landscapes and, after some epic encounters, proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world.How did you collaborate with Savion Glover on the choreography for the penguins? In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru, a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Led by Ramon, the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with them. Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins-the Adelie Amigos. Mumble is just too different-especially for Noah the Elder, the stern leader of Emperor Land, who ultimately casts him out of the community. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch, but she struggles with his strange "hippity- hoppity" ways. As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria, happens to be the best singer around. Though Mumble's mom, Norma Jean, thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis, says it "just ain't penguin." Besides, they both know that, without a Heartsong, Mumble may never find true love. However, Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong.
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