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Hey, it's Hannah. Again. So, last year, we did an episode with the sound designer behind The Zone of Interest, which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Sound. We thought we'd do a similar episode with one of this year's nominated films, which is the bonus episode you're about to hear. Enjoy.
Hello. Bonjour. Guten Tag. Buongiorno. Hola. Congratulations on your purchase of a Universal Dynamics robot.
That is the voice of Roz from the animated film The Wild Robot, up for three Oscars this weekend, including for Best Sound. Ra's, whose voice by Lupita Nyong'o is a helper robot, a kind of turbocharged Siri, who gets stranded on a deserted island and learns to communicate with the animals that live there. She also finds a goose egg, the only one left after she accidentally destroyed its nest.
And she decides that her task is to raise this gosling and basically become its mom. But that means she has to do all the parts of becoming a mom. Okay.
Aber sie erinnert sich an eine Sache. Dich. Und wenn sie endlich dich sieht, fühlt sie sich... Krass. Obligation. Sehr glücklich, Mutter zu sein.
Das hat eine interessante Herausforderung für das Film-Sounddesign-Team geschaffen. Was soll dieser Roboter klingen? Und was soll es klingen, wenn es eine Seele hat?
How do you know if you love something, someone? If you do, you should probably tell them. What if it is too late?
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