“Long history short“Cuts to the point. Comes from”Bojack Horseman“The creator Raphael Bob-WaksbergIt is without parody dressing that “Bojack Horseman” presents, instead approaching the heart of human conflict and comedy.
Screening at Annecy International Animated Film Festival This week, the first episode of the “Bojack” creator’s latest animated Netflix The series sees that Avi (Ben Feldman) brings his new girlfriend Jennifer (Abbi Jacobson) to meet his family in front of his little brother Yoshis (Max Greenfield) Bat Mitzvah. It drowns you in overlapping dialogue, religious anxiety and eccentric family members and distances itself immediately from Waksberg’s previous work. The series then follows the Jewish family over the years, their hope and disappointments.
“I was thinking about family, time and identity,” Waksberg told IndieWire at Annecy. “In the writers room, I wrote Those up on a board, like this is what the show is about. More specifically, I was thought about how our relationships with our family change over time, and how our identity changes over time and the way we see our way we see. Much of That Is Defined by Our Family. When We have kids, Oftenimes We are Trying to Either Emulate or Corract The Way That We were brought up. In some way, we succeed, and in as we fail.
As much as the themes reason with him personally, Waksberg hesitates to label “Long history short“So autobiographical.” I would say it feels more personal than autobiographical, because you don’t know my biography. But I wanted it to feel real and lived in. It’s not really about my family, but it’s about family, and it’s about my thoughts about the family, the family’s rhythms and how the family interacts. I would say that all my work is personal in that way. I am about that all art at some level is autobiographical, sometimes in ways you don’t even realize. “
Authentic depiction of Family Made Waksberg to write in a different register than what “Bojack” offered audiences. “We definitely make more double dialogue than we ever did on ‘Bojack.’ It was very intentional. Part of doing a show is to teach your audience to watch it.
He added, “This part is actually very autobiographical. It is based on my family and probably other families too. You are not waiting until the end of the sentence to start talking, especially when you know what the other person says, you will start before they are done. If you are not up in that situation, it can be very overwhelming and off-putting, but I am clear.
“Long Story Short” also feels so personal because of its exploration of Jewish identity and shows Yoshi as having a crisis of faith. “Being Jewish means so many different things to different people,” Waksberg said. “Many stories about religion are centered on faith, because it is the Christian story, and faith is such an important part of Christianity and Judaism as I have experienced it. I do not speak for all Jews, but it is not so based in faith. That’s not all that Jewish means. I am interested in religion as far as culture and identity.”
When he returns from working on “Bojack” with Waksberg, as is Netflix’s “Tuca & Bertie”, character designer Lisa Hanawalt, whose work is more restrained, is more minimal than she showed in her previous series. “It was very intentional,” Waksberg added. “We wanted it not to look like” Bojack “or” Tuca. “We didn’t want it to be mistaken as a spinoff and feel like Bojack can go on every minute” peanuts “comedian.
When he spoke to indieview Last year, Waksberg discussed how “Bojack Horseman” had to tailor about how the audience looks at exhibitions on flow: linear and often at once. During the 11 years ago, the landscape has changed again, which made him think differently about the structure of “Long Story Short.”
“I was interested in thinking about how the audience looks at shows. One thing I have known is that” Bojack “has done very well, even for people who did not look when it was on. One of the reasons for it is because it is long -lasting, there are 77 episodes of it, and when you get to the end you are ready to start it again.”
Waksberg Said, “That’s hard to do with fewer seasons with Shorter Episode Orders, WHY See a lot of in streaming. On a show like this, the goal is to make you fall in love with the character. Can you feel, by the end of the first season, that you’ve Watched Five Seasons of this show?
At the end of the credits, “Long Story Short” makes a point to emphasize that “this program was made by people.” “It’s a bit of a toothless guarantee, as there is no standard at this time, there is no human society of anti-Ai to certify this as the right amount of non-automation,” Waksberg said. “But as a declaration of value it was worth saying loudly,” this is important to us “, and what I love about the show is that it is made by people. Even in the artwork we were really aware to say:” Let’s color outside the lines a little, let’s, let’s feel this. “In writing, we also want it to feel personally.
He added, “One of the things I love to do this work is how cooperative it is. I get to work with these other people who come in with their own things. I could see a world where I had an idea of a show, and I could write down a piece about it, and then I can not do a kind of doing exactly as I would imagine.
“Long Story Short” premieres on Netflix August 22.
