:13:00
He just cracked us up. It was like,
"Here's how the loch works"...
:13:03
and, "I think the weight
is proportionally correct. "
:13:06
It's not only beautiful,
I think we could build this.
:13:11
This scene was a sort of late addition
in terms of the story line.
:13:15
We really wanted to have more fun
seeing and learning...
:13:18
about the history
between these once-old friends.
:13:21
So this idea of a party,
a dedication ceremony...
:13:24
for the Book of Peace arriving,
and Sinbad crashing it, was added...
:13:29
late in the game.
:13:30
When this set up for this back story
of that he knew her...
:13:34
blew me away in the screening
when I saw this...
:13:38
added sequence that really started
to pull everything together for me.
:13:42
For the longest time Marina was on the boat,
so when Sinbad attacked Proteus...
:13:45
he not only met his old friend,
he came face to face...
:13:49
with the woman who sent him
out to sea 10 years previous.
:13:53
So we figured it was just too much
to meet two important characters...
:13:56
bam-bam right in a row,
and we separated those introductions.
:14:00
Face to fist.
:14:01
It was literally bam-bam,
two important characters.
:14:03
'Cause Marina's intro in the movie
was decking Sinbad.
:14:09
Jed, the weapons expert,
had a bigger role once...
:14:11
but he did survive to have this one
really nice bit of business, a nice joke.
:14:15
It's actually voiced by one
of our story artists, Conrad Vernon...
:14:19
who's now co-directing Shrek 2,
so thank you, Conrad.
:14:22
And some animation was done in London...
:14:25
by the additional crew that we
had over there, and it was really fun...
:14:29
to work over there, video conference,
with those guys.
:14:32
They did a great job.
:14:35
And here we have Catherine Zeta-Jones.
:14:37
Catherine, just an absolute pleasure
to work with.
:14:40
She was almost restless with how
much she wanted to play with the character.
:14:44
She was never satisfied with her takes
and wanted to give you another version.
:14:48
Thank goodness she did...
:14:49
because her character...
It took a while to discover...
:14:51
this kind of strong, female, non-princess
that we wanted for the picture...
:14:56
and Catherine really helped us probe
and find some smarts and some authority...