Animated films with no fictional aspect?

Now that I think about it, most animated films I've seen have something (or a lot of things) in them that can't happen in real life, and that's probably one of the main reasons why they're animated.

But about the small handful (if there are any) of films that are animated, but nothing spontaneous happens; nothing happens that would be necessarily different if the film was live action. What do you think it is that makes the filmmakers choose for the film to be animated if nothing out-of-this-world happens?
I suppose it would be more visually interesting, since we all know what real life humans look like and it would be nice to see a more abstract version of them. But what else could the filmmakers be trying to achieve?

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  1. UnknownDecember 11, 2018 at 9:20 AM

    I agree with your answer. I feel that the reason why filmmakers would occasionally chose animation over live action is because of the aesthetic that it gives off. There was a movie that we watched in class about a war (I know it's terrible that I didn't remember), but I felt that the movie could have 100% been in live action because there was nothing in the film that live action couldn't do. However, I think that the filmmakers decided to choose animation because of the unique look that animation gives off.

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  2. UnknownDecember 12, 2018 at 8:35 PM

    I personally feel that if a film can be made in live-action, make it in live action. Unless you're using animation to amplify a certain theme, or to make things look prettier than they would on film, why not just actually film it? I guess one reason would be control. If you animate a film, you have a lot more control over what happens in it. Shooting crowds, children, or animals can be a total nightmare, but if you animate the scenes, you have complete control over what each character/animal is doing.

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  3. UnknownDecember 13, 2018 at 11:21 AM

    I think its also important to consider what role companies play in deciding if a movie will be animated too.

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  4. Jackson GallatiDecember 14, 2018 at 2:42 PM

    I think a good case study here could be Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalasia". Kaufman said he wanted the film to be "small, but real", which I think effectively sums up why the movie was made the way it was. Although it was stop motion, they filmed at 24 frames per second, and the effect is quite literally unlike anything I've seen before. Essentially, it allows the movie to exist in a place very much like our own, yet still have distinguishing features to make it its own world. This is just one example of course, and there are different reasons for different films, but I think it gets at what you're asking.

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