when i was a kid and my family was watching robots (2006) my dad offhandedly mentioned his cousin worked on the movie which i didn’t fully internalize then and always existed in some kind of liminal space in my memory as something either i made up, or something my dad made up
cut to sometime in the last year when i remembered movies have credits and imdb aggregates credits across a person’s career so i tried to find my first cousin once removed on there and sure enough, he’s had a decorated career - in addition to robots he also worked on:
- the boys
- game of thrones
- john wick
- the interview
- 22 jump street
- a couple of twilight movies
among others; i’ve only met the guy a handful of times, and vfx work is real labor intensive with large teams working the post-production but it‘s so cool to know someone that worked on shit that i’ve actually seen and has had wild cultural significance. this must be what it feels like to be a coppola