By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
In 2000, the highest grossing stop-motion animated film in history was released titled Chicken Run, bringing in 227 million dollars. When my daughter was in elementary school, she loved this movie and we watched it over and over again!
The movie was directed and written by Peter Lord and Nick Park. A stop-motion film requires the moviemakers to physically manipulate the characters in small increments between the photograph frames so they appear in motion.
Mel Gibson was the voice of the main character named Rocky Rhodes. Rocky Rhodes is an American rooster who lands in a British chicken farm run by Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy. The hens were terrified of Mrs. Tweedy because if they stopped laying eggs, she would threaten to make them into meat pies. One of my daughter’s favorite lines was “but I don’t want to be a pie.” Rocky Rhodes claims to fly and is going to help the chickens escape.
Why the talk about chickens? It has to do with eggs and the avian flu.