Super Mario creator says new movie humanizes popular game character

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Nintendo" s="" Shigeru="" Miyamoto="" speaks="" during="" the="" Apple="" launch="" event="" at="" Bill="" Graham="" Civic="" Auditorium="" in="" San="" September="" EPA="" MONICA="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tvpatrol/05/01/nintendo-s-shigeru-miyamoto.jpg"/><figcaption>Nintendo&#x27;s Shigeru Miyamoto speaks during the Apple launch event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California, USA, 07 September 2016. <em>EPA/MONICA DAVEY</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>After conquering multiplexes across the world, &quot;The Super Mario Bros. Movie&quot; made its homecoming to Japan on Friday, in a film the video game&#x27;s creator says has given the iconic character a more human personality.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/05/01/23/super-mario-is-years-first-film-to-pass-1-billion">&#x27;Super Mario&#x27; is year&#x27;s first film to pass $1 billion globally</a></li></ul><p>&quot;The Mario who was puppet-like in the games has become humanized, and with his varied expressions and flashy movements, he&#x27;s become a &#x27;person&#x27; now,&quot; said Shigeru Miyamoto, representative director and fellow at Nintendo Co., in a recent interview with Kyodo News.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/11/16/22/super-mario-creator-shigeru-miyamoto-turns-70">Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario and Donkey Kong, taught me that I can do anything</a></li></ul><p>The animated film starring Mario, who made his video game debut in 1981 and appears in numerous titles, including the &quot;Super Mario Bros.&quot; series, has already been a huge financial success. It is expected to become the first film this year to gross $1 billion at the global box office, according to U.S. media.</p><p>Devised in a collaboration between Nintendo and California-based animation studio Illumination, known for its &quot;Minions&quot; film series, the Super Mario movie has seen the 70-year-old Miyamoto get hands-on as one of its producers.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s got a storyline that&#x27;s easy to follow, like video games usually do,&quot; the game designer at the Kyoto-based computer gaming giant said. &quot;We&#x27;ve made something that parents and kids alike can see at the theater without getting bored.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/04/25/23/review-nostalgia-sells-in-super-mario-bros-movie">Review: Nostalgia sells in &#x27;Super Mario Bros. Movie&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>It was also a moment for Miyamoto to reflect on how his character has developed.</p><p>&quot;At first, I drew him as an eight-bit character. Then, with &quot;Super Mario 64,&quot; he became 3D and puppet-like. Now with this animation, he&#x27;s become much more like a real person and this great character,&quot; he said.</p><p>The film also features scenes from action games that Miyamoto has worked on, including the &quot;Mario Kart&quot; racing series.</p><p>&quot;Mario is basically an action movie, so we&#x27;ve made something for the screen that allows people to enjoy it with the kind of movements you&#x27;d see in a video game,&quot; Miyamoto said. &quot;We did a lot of camera work that has never been used in animation before.&quot;</p><p>There have also been deviations from the original material. Princess Peach, a mainstay who has typically been relegated to a supporting player in need of Mario&#x27;s rescue, has been reinvented as a spear-wielding fighter.</p><p>&quot;For the last 20 years or so, American movies have involved women in the action,&quot; Miyamoto said. &quot;I wanted to make Princess Peach a stronger woman,&quot; he said, adding that he discussed with Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri about having a version of the character that fights.</p><p>The creator, also known to be behind the popular &quot;The Legend of Zelda&quot; series, hinted at the plumber&#x27;s future film forays, saying, &quot;We&#x27;ve been making Mario video games for 40 years, so there&#x27;s still a lot of assets.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Just by constructing something from what we&#x27;ve amassed so far, we can make something new,&quot; Miyamoto said.</p><div><strong>==Kyodo</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LaCWybGJZB4?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

After conquering multiplexes across the world, 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' made its homecoming to Japan on Friday, in a film the video game's creator says has given the iconic character a more human personality.

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Super Mario creator says new movie humanizes popular game character

Super Mario creator says new movie humanizes popular game character

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Published May 01, 2023 08:00 AM PHT

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