The Old Man and the Sea (1999), directed by Aleksandr Petrov, is a short animated feature film based on Ernest Hemingway's novel with the same name. It was animated using paint-on-glass animation, a technique that used slow-drying pastel oil paints on glass sheet. There were 29,000 paintings in this 20-minute film and it was the first movie to be released in IMAX format.
Based on the novel, an old man named Santiago, the main protagonist, who had a life filled with adventures and now he was old, he went fishing all by himself, usually caught nothing. And there's his apprentice, Mandolin, whose parents prohibited him to go fishing with Santiago. Everyday he visited the old man and heard stories about his travels and journeys with wildlife and oceanlife. On his fishing trip, he spotted a huge marlin, tried to catch it but failed. He thought about despite being a brother of fish, he had to kill that marlin (it's his mission) and he could prove his worth in doing so.
The movie looked like in reality, but the paint-on-glass made it a lot better like a dream and really satisfying. It really deserved the Best Animated Short Film from the Oscars in 2000. It's gonna be remembered by many audiences.
Review of The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
(1999)
A mind-blowing animated feature short film!
1 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers