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      • The Iron Giant can't remember who he is, but with the help of a boy named Hogarth Hughes he may rediscover and remember who he was.
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  2. Originally released a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant was praised as an anti-war, anti-gun fable—or, less frequently, damned for being the same.

    • What Is 'The Iron Giant' About?
    • Ted Hughes Wrote 'The Iron Giant' to Help His Children Grieve
    • 'Brad Bird Used 'The Iron Giant' to Explore Death and Loss - with Some Changes

    Almost immediately, The Iron Giant shows us that it takes place in a world of tension. Set during the Cold War - a very real, nonfictional conflict - the atmosphere of the film is one of uncertainty and mistrust. After a mysterious object (the Giant) crashes to Earth from outer space, the audience is immediately thrown into a scene of abject terror...

    When the poet Sylvia Plath died by suicide in 1963, she left behind two children. They'd been the product of a volatile relationship between Plath and another poet, Ted Hughes. Hughes had not been a perfect husband during the marriage, taking part in affairs and allegedly abusing Plath. (Tragically, the woman Hughes entered the affair with, German ...

    As it turned out, Hughes wasn't the only person using The Iron Giant to explore grief. In 1989, Bird's sister Susan was murdered by her husband in an act of gun violence. They had been very close. "I wasn’t thinking consciously about it when I proposed the idea," Bird told IndieWire in 2019, "but my feelings about [gun violence] are in the film and...

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  3. The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant).

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    A deleted scene reveals that the Giant can subconsciously broadcast his dreams and memories on electronic devices, shown when his memories of the deer and a war on an alien world are broadcast on Dean's television. Weaponry [] The Iron Giant is equipped with six different kinds of armaments far superior to any human weapon.

    • Warner Bros. Feature Animation
    • Giant Robot
    • Male
    • 3 min
    • The Iron Giant is based on a Ted Hughes novel. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes—and his mother, Annie Hughes—both share a name with the British Poet Laureate who wrote the children’s book the film is based on.
    • Hughes praised The Iron Giant's screenplay. Sadly, Hughes passed away a year before the movie was released. He did, however, live long enough to read the script.
    • The Iron Giant was originally meant to be a Pete Townshend musical. Before The Iron Man was reimagined as an animated children’s film, it was adapted by The Who guitarist Pete Townshend into a solo concept album of the same name.
    • The Iron Giant marked Brad Bird's feature directorial debut. As the director of two beloved Pixar films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007), Bird—a two-time Oscar winner—is considered one of the most respected figures in the animation biz.
  5. The Iron Man (published in the United States as The Iron Giant) is a science fiction-fantasy novella by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Tom Gauld (in 2005), and originally published in 1968. Ted Hughes was a prolific poet (“ Wind,” “ Theology ”) and author of both adult and children’s literature.

  6. Aug 6, 2019 · Until the Iron Giant, star of 1999’s The Iron Giant, appeared in the trailer for Ready Player One this summer, I assumed he was missing. He was lost to us. But he was always with...

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