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| ⚫ | '''''Bunny''''' is the first short film released by [[Blue Sky Studios]]. It was released in 1998, 4 years before the release of the [[Ice Age|first ''Ice Age'' movie]]. It is featured on the ''Ice Age'' [[wikipedia:DVD|DVD]] released in 2002. The website offers the following synopsis:[[File:Blue sky studios Bunny|thumb|right|335 px|Ice Age]] |
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| ⚫ | '''''Bunny''''' is the first short film released by [[Blue Sky Studios]]. It was released in 1998, 4 years before the release of the [[Ice Age|first ''Ice Age'' |
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| + | Bunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder; she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. Eventually she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly pours into a pan and shoves into the oven. She then sets the kitchen timer and falls asleep, only to be awakened by loud rumblings and blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Crawling inside, she finds herself confronted by the moth and begins to float through an otherworldly space toward the source of the light, with a pair of giant moth wings sprouting from her back to propel her as the insect leads her along. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder; the shadows and reflections of two moths play across the image as well. |
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| + | During his introduction to the film on the ''Ice Age'' DVD, Wedge offers his interpretation of these events. Bunny dies in her sleep, and the oven serves as a gateway to the afterlife. Her spirit is instinctively drawn into it, as a moth going toward a bright light, and reunited with that of her husband. |
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| − | ''"Baking alone in her kitchen, tattered old Bunny receives a troublesome late-night visitor from the deepest woods -- or deeper. A hairy moth, as battered as Bunny, seems to be stalking her. Her attempts to remove it only make the moth more insistent. What is it about this nocturnal pest that stirs her deepest fears and memories? To find out, she must go through an emotional metamorphosis that sheds a whole new light on this quirky but heart-warming tale."''[http://bunny.blueskystudios.com/] |
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== Trivia == |
== Trivia == |
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* this was the first short film to use blue sky studios shield logo. |
* this was the first short film to use blue sky studios shield logo. |
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Latest revision as of 12:03, 1 September 2021
Bunny is the first short film released by Blue Sky Studios. It was released in 1998, 4 years before the release of the first Ice Age movie. It is featured on the Ice Age DVD released in 2002. The website offers the following synopsis:
Blue sky studios Bunny
Ice Age
Plot
Bunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder; she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. Eventually she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly pours into a pan and shoves into the oven. She then sets the kitchen timer and falls asleep, only to be awakened by loud rumblings and blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Crawling inside, she finds herself confronted by the moth and begins to float through an otherworldly space toward the source of the light, with a pair of giant moth wings sprouting from her back to propel her as the insect leads her along. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder; the shadows and reflections of two moths play across the image as well.
During his introduction to the film on the Ice Age DVD, Wedge offers his interpretation of these events. Bunny dies in her sleep, and the oven serves as a gateway to the afterlife. Her spirit is instinctively drawn into it, as a moth going toward a bright light, and reunited with that of her husband.
Trivia
- this was the first short film to use blue sky studios shield logo.
The short won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short
this was the first only ever blue sky studios short film to feature about bunnies