Cultural Event: Wreck it Ralph

Typically I'm not one for children's films, but honestly when I had first seen the trailer for Wreck it Ralph I just felt this responsibility as an aspiring voice actor to go see it. My younger brother also kind of twisted my arm...  It was interesting to see many things I had known since childhood all put into a format together on the big screen. Various video game characters and archetypes being showcased on one movie together was just rather refreshing in the world of Pixar and the like. It honestly felt as if it could have been the next Toy Story of this generation if they had stuck more with the classic game characters for more than the first thirty minutes of the film. It was rather confusing to go from so many big names in video games to like the story's own little universe.

This may be by and large the video game companies and their willingness to lend their characters to such a film. These are people being asked to plop their intellectual properties into a sandbox with all sorts of characters that are similar in many ways and still sort of competing against one another.

This honestly was a cultural experience for me as it takes much of what is important to me and sort of jams it all together. The voice acting aspect and taking key ideas of how to do the voices shown and also how it must be so intensive to think of how to do the voice beforehand and not have an original to go off of. Truly that is the crux of being a voice actor though. Having directors must really help but having distinctive voices really creates a powerful narrative.