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holy shit the book the iron giant is based on was written by sylvia plath's husband, after she k*lled herself, to comfort their surviving children. WHAT https://t.co/KIbOPvTi0U
@qorprate and there's more https://t.co/aRGgPnz0fF
there was more stuff i should've kept reading https://t.co/ygd1QCd9Lw
Yeah also the director Brad Bird (who I had the pleasure to work with last year) directed the movie because of a similar case in his family unfortunately 😕. His sister was killed tragically (you can read about it). The reason he wanted to make the movie was because he was thinking about "what if a weapon was conscious and didn't want to be used as a weapon".
@QiaochuYuan https://t.co/q491GsTl6f Sylvia Plath's magic wand is still kicking around for some reason
@QiaochuYuan The book is also so different from the movie it has little relationship with the latter other than the initial premise. In the book the Iron Giant performs a series of mythic challenges to dissuade a giant space dragon from destroying the world.