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Stitch Facts
Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by
Walt Disney
Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista
Distribution on June 21, 2002. The film was written and directed by Chris
Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and was the second of three Disney animated
features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios
in Orlando,
Florida.
The film was rated PG for "mild
sci-fi action".
Lilo & Stitch was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated
Feature, which ultimately went to Spirited Away.
Lilo & Stitch is the sixth Disney animated feature to take place in the
present day, following Oliver & Company. The movie was originally intended
to take place in rural
Kansas
so that Stitch could interact with other characters while still being
isolated from wreaking greater havoc. A decision to change the film's
setting to the
Hawaiian
island of Kauai was an important choice in defining the plot more clearly.
No other feature-length animated movie had ever taken place on any of the
Hawaiian islands before. In Sanders' words:
"Animation has been set so much in ancient, medieval Europe—so many fairy
tales find their roots there, that to place it in
Hawaii
was kind of a big leap. But that choice went to color the entire movie,
and rewrite the story for us."
While the animation team visited Kauai to research the locale, their tour
guide explained the meaning of ohana as it applies to extended families.
This concept of ohana became an important part of the movie. DeBlois
recalls:
"No matter where we went, our tour guide seemed to know somebody. He was
really the one who explained to us the Hawaiian concept of ohana, a sense
of family that extends far beyond your immediate relatives. That idea so
influenced the story that it became the foundation theme, the thing that
causes Stitch to evolve despite what he was created to do, which is
destroy."
The island of Kauai had previously been featured in such films as Raiders
of the Lost Ark and the Jurassic Park trilogy. The Disney animators faced
the daunting task of meshing the film's plot, which showed the
impoverished and dysfunctional life that many Hawaiians and other
Westerners lived during the recent economic downturn, with the island's
serene beauty. To give a brighter image to the film, the studio used
watercolors to paint the backgrounds.
Jason Scott Lee, who has Hawaiian ethnicity, co-wrote the dialogue for his
character.
Elvis Presley and Lilo Facts
Lilo is portrayed as a very big
Elvis
Presley fan in the movie.
Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley.
Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax,
holding up her favorite musician Elvis Presley as a model example of
behavior.
Elvis music is featured in the movie. In one scene Lilo turns Stitch into
a make shift record player playing, "Hounddog".
In one scene, a pink jeep car can briefly be seen in the lower-left corner
of the screen. This is a reference to the Elvis movie Blue Hawaii, in
which he drove such a car.
Sequels
The film has had a total of three related movies come after it.
* Stitch! The Movie (2003)
* Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch (2005)
* Leroy & Stitch (2006)
Box Office for Lilo and Stitch
Domestic: $145,794,338 53.4%
+ Foreign: $127,349,813 46.6%
= Worldwide: $273,144,151
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