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Wikipedia article
'Wats Pig' is a 1996 British stop motion animated short film created by Aardman Animations and written and directed by Peter Lord.[https://mubi.com/films/wats-pig MUBI]
It is a tale of two princes who are split as babies only to reunite as adults during a war. It is told almost entirely non-verbally.
Plot
In a Medieval castle, a marauder tries to kidnap the twin infant sons of the lord. He makes off with only one, whom he drops about a mile away. A pig rescues this baby, so one brother grows up high on the hog, the other down with the swine. One being lazy, another industrious. Years later, when a neighboring prince declares war, the brother in the castle is too soft to fight. The twins are united just before the final battle.[https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/39011-Wats-Pig BCDB]
Production
'Wat's Pig' was Aardman's sixth Oscar nomination, and Lord's second Oscar nomination as a director.
Peter Lord said: "I don't expect, 'Wat's Pig' to make its money back, or 'Stage Fright' to make its money back, but we have that luxury. We can do that here, because we get money from the commercials and the merchandising malarkey."
He explained some of the production process:
Critical reception
DVD Review describes 'Wat's Pig' as "Scripted, widescreen, more ordinary, and better (than 'War Story')".
Awards and nominations
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| 1997
| Peter Lord
| Academy Award for Best Short Film, Animated
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHihTzSMSlA Chris Farley and David Spade at the Oscars-YouTube]
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Preservation
'Wat's Pig' was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
References
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