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Don Hertzfeldt

Animator, World of Tomorrow and Rejected

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Their 2012 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 5 posts and 713 comments from u/donhertzfeldt, dated 2011 to 2026, most often in r/IAmA, r/movies and r/moviefinder.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “::: don hertzfeldt, filmmaker: AMA”

• Hi Don! Love your work. • Have you done any of the voices in your cartoons? • Also, what language were the people in Wisdom Teeth supposed to be speaking? I tried figuring it out but it sounded like a Swedish Chef-ish kind of thing.

u/donhertzfeldt replied

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not a real language. it was originally drawn many years ago as a comic strip, and when i came around to animating it i realized there are certain lines that are just way funnier when read than heard. therefore, subtitles. i thought it was obvious, funny gibberish until i read some reviews out of sundance referring to it as "german." maybe i failed and made it sound too authentic? i can't imagine how strange and less funny the cartoon must be if someone just assumes it's from europe...

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A redditor wrote in r/movies

On “hey it's don hertzfeldt, some sort of animator guy, and maybe you should AMA”

Hi Don!!! Thank you for being a part of my life since I first found your work in 2003 with Billy’s Balloon. I was hooked, and despite their confusion hooked my friends as well. If I remember correctly on bitterfilms there was some note about “send me anything!” And later added…

u/donhertzfeldt replied

oh yeah i forgot about that. somebody put a tree stump in a box, sheared off on one end and sent it to us with a note that said "please enjoy this bookend i fashioned for you out of a…

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oh yeah i forgot about that. somebody put a tree stump in a box, sheared off on one end and sent it to us with a note that said "please enjoy this bookend i fashioned for you out of a maple stump." it was very heavy and must have cost a fortune in postage. i did not hang onto the tree stump very long because i was afraid it would start spinning around at night shooting ants

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “::: don hertzfeldt, filmmaker: AMA”

I always assumed you were a fake person. great job >> your films are amazin I am a banana

u/donhertzfeldt replied

when i was on tour a couple years ago i realized i'd squandered a fantastic opportunity: to hire an actor, male or female, of any age or demographic, to go out on stage every night and answer questions as me…

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eventually it would become known and accepted that i never actually showed my face in pubilc, and, in on the joke, audiences would enjoy interacting with the actor(s) anyway after each screening, who would genuinely know enough about my stuff to answer questions intelligently.

eventually i would go out and do the q+a myself in a city, and nobody would believe that i was me.

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “hi it's don hertzfeldt (filmmaker) how are you? AMA”

What was the process with making the final scene in "It's such a beautiful day"? How did you feel making it?

u/donhertzfeldt replied

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the final sequence of "beautiful day" was originally an idea for an entirely different movie. what if someone just can't die? through no fault of their own, for unknown reasons, he just can't die? it was just an interesting half-baked thing in my head for a while and i don't think i realized it made sense to be the ending for the 3rd movie until i was already many months in production on it.

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