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EXCLUSIVE: Kathleen Kennedy has paid fond tribute to Marjane Satrapi, nan artist, animator and Persepolis filmmaker who died Thursday astatine 56. “We’ve mislaid a existent original,” nan longtime Lucasfilm president said successful part. Read her afloat remembrance below.
Kennedy worked pinch Satrapi connected Persepolis, the filmmaker’s 2007 pic that earned an Oscar information for Best Animated Feature and racked up awards from nan Cannes Film Festival and National Board of Review to critics groups and movie festivals astir nan world. It besides earned a slew of nominations from nan Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Critics Choice, Annie Awards and galore more.
“Marjane Satrapi understood what each awesome filmmaker acknowledges, that nan astir individual story, told without flinching, becomes nan astir universal,” Kennedy said of Satrapi. “She took her puerility successful Tehran, nan fear, nan defiance, nan emotion and turned it into thing nan full world recognized arsenic its own.”
Kennedy was a shaper connected Persepolis, which tells Satrapi’s ain communicative — adapted from her bid of autobiographical schematic novels — of an outspoken Iranian woman increasing up during nan Islamic Revolution. Our sister tract IndieWire reported that Kennedy approached Satrapi astir acquiring movie rights. The filmmaker declined, but Kennedy came connected committee arsenic a producer, securing accumulation costs done an American distribution woody while giving afloat imaginative power to Satrapi and her chap first-time writer-director Vincent Paronnaud.
“Kathleen Kennedy liked nan communicative truthful much,” Satrapi said successful a 2007 interview pinch The New York Times. “We met successful L.A. and she’s specified a engaged lady, I said, ‘I really don’t cognize really to convey you.’ She told me, ‘Make a bully movie; that’s nan champion thanks.’ “
Here is Kennedy’s afloat statement:
“Marjane Satrapi understood what each awesome filmmaker acknowledges, that nan astir individual story, told without flinching, becomes nan astir universal. She took her puerility successful Tehran, nan fear, nan defiance, nan emotion and turned it into thing nan full world recognized arsenic its own.
Working pinch Marjane fto maine acquisition not only her tremendous talent but a relationship I will ever treasure. She was an creator of conscience and ferocious heart, who said retired large what excessively galore only whispered astir her homeland, and astir an manufacture that still hesitates to spot women pinch nan biggest canvases.
She collapsed nan doorway open, connected her ain uncompromising terms. We’ve mislaid a existent original. My thoughts are pinch her family and pinch everyone who recovered themselves successful her orbit. Stories for illustration hers are why we do this, and her powerful beingness will enactment pinch america agelong aft today.“
