Squirrels, Nuts and STOOLS
Forty squirrels were trained to crack nuts in the new film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Even with sophisticated computer-generated technology available, director Tim Burton refused to take any short cuts with the famous Nut Room scene in Roald Dahl's novel.
It had to be as life-like as possible, Burton decided, which meant squirrels cracking and sorting nuts on a conveyor belt.
In the film, they are seen sitting on stools testing the quality of the nuts until their work is rudely interrupted by one of the humans, in an action they take strong exception to.
posted by Freddy @ Friday, July 29, 2005
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