OTTplay Now You Know - Ice Age

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Ice-Age has been by far one of the most well-loved animated franchises. With as many as five installments, the films have been successfully drawing the old and young, alike. With The Ice-Age Adventures of Buck Wild releasing recently, here’s a list of trivia about the first 2002 film that charmed audiences worldwide.

1. The animators of the film found it difficult to draw like children for the images for the end credits, so they sought the help of their own children to get the job done. In fact, the picture that Sid draws of himself in the cave is done by three-year-old Will Shefelman, the son of Dan Shefelman the story artist.
2. Actor John Leguizamo decided to give a unique voice to his character Sid after watching a documentary about sloths. On discovering that sloths store food in their mouths, he decided to give Sid a voice that sounded as if someone was speaking with food in their mouth. He had initially come up with nearly 30 different voices for the character.
3. The character Scrat is a fictional creature created just for the film, a mixture of a squirrel and a rat, and is voiced by the first film’s director Chris Wedge even though the character has no dialogue. The decision to have no dialogue for Scrat was made for comedic effect. However, in 2009 in Argentina, scientists unearthed fossils of a creature that largely resembles Scrat. It was eventually named Cronopio Dentiacutus, paying homage to the Ice Age character.
4. Ice Age is the only film in the franchise that does not have the Twentieth Century Fox Animation Presents during its credits. Although the logo was supposed to be made to look like ice, the plan was later scrapped. The bottom part of the ice logo features in a trailer for the movie, but the movie itself carries the original 20th Century Fox logo.
5. In order to make the snowboarding sequences in the film appear realistic, animators who have experience with snowboarding were tasked to do the animation for Sid’s scenes with the snowboard.
6. Ray Romano might seem like the perfect casting choice for Manfred, but did you know that a whole list of Hollywood A-listers was considered for the part, that includes the names of Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis, Pierce Brosnan, Nicolas Cage, Michael Keaton and Sylvester Stallone, among many others.
7. The makers of the film had considered several actors in the role of ever-happy sloth Sid, before they zeroed in on John Leguizamo. Some of the notable names in the list were Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, and Danny DeVito.
8. Denis Leary, who voiced the saber-tooth cat Diego, confessed to Jay Leno in a 2012 interview that Diego’s character was initially written off from the film since he dies during the climax. But this treatment received extremely negative reactions when the children in the test audience got upset and burst into tears. Diego then, not only survived in the first film but has been a recurrent character in all the following installments.

If you haven't watched this flick yet then do so streaming on Disney + Hotstar and Google Play

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