Animation on never giving up on your dreams | The Necktie - by Jean-François Lévesque

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  • A mixture of puppet and hand-drawn animation, The Necktie is the story of Valentin and his quest to find meaning in his life. Stuck in a dead-end job, he has forgotten all about the things that used to bring him joy. Years pass, and boredom replaces all his aspirations and hope for the future. It is only on his 40th birthday, when he rediscovers an old accordion hidden in the depths of his closet, that he regains his lust for life.
    This animated short film won the following awards:
    -Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film - Prix Iris, Canada, 2009
    -Fabrizio Bellochio Prize for Social Content - I Castrlli Animati Festival, Italy, 2009
    -Youth Jury Prize for Best Animated Short - Festival de Cinéma des 3 Amériques, France, 2009
    -Best Short Film Award / Audience Prize - Montreal World Film Festival, Canada, 2009
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    Original title - Le Nœud de Cravate (The Necktie)
    Director - Jean-François Lévesque
    Writer - Jean-François Lévesque
    Producers - René Chénier, Michèle Bélanger, Julie Roy
    Editing - Natacha Dufaux
    Puppets - Jean-François Lévesque
    Animation - Jean-François Lévesque
    2D animation - Luc Chamberland
    Sound design - Marie-Claude Gagné
    Soundtrack - Hugo Fleury
    Year - 2008
    © Licensed by National Film Board of Canada
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Komentáře • 65

  • @WillScarlet16
    @WillScarlet16 Před 10 dny +7

    Thank you for this. My uncle Eli Noyes was a stop-motion animator himself, AND he played the accordion as well. He passed away last month. He lived his life working on what he chose; he brushed up with companies like Pixar and MTV, but he would never have been happy working with any of them. He would never have chosen a workplace where he didn't have his freedom.

  • @Andy-gq5hb
    @Andy-gq5hb Před 15 dny +23

    The Death of a Dream is painless. Dreams rarely die right in front of your eyes. They usually die of neglect. You don't even realize it's happening until something reminds you of it again. Then you suddenly realize it's been dead for years. Having been starved by our daily choice for comfort and convenience.
    Dreams are there to be dreamed. A dream you won't allow yourself to have or work towards is no dream at all!

    • @spritellly
      @spritellly Před 11 dny +1

      Andy, you make some intriguing points here! I’m writing a memoir about negotiating with a nudge. If I wish to quote you, may I?

    • @Andy-gq5hb
      @Andy-gq5hb Před 11 dny +1

      @@spritellly Sure! I’d be honored. Use it however you’d like

    • @spritellly
      @spritellly Před 11 dny +1

      Yey! Much appreciated!

    • @dreamguardian8320
      @dreamguardian8320 Před 11 dny +3

      I use to have a dream or two, I use to dream that I would be a great book author and write many fantasy stories, I even started to dream that I would be a great 2D animator and be as great as some of the legendry 2D animators, like Don Bluth, Akria Troiyama, Walt Disney, maybe even Hayao Miyazaki. Plus, find I nice woman, get married, have a few kids and be a loving family. But after learning that I have autism and all the things going on with my home, family, and life, never finding the right girl, (not to mention feeling I may never be as great as the other famous authors,) I feel I may never reach my dreams and they may never come true.
      I feel like the only way I could have dreams coming true is by entering the afterlife. (Not that I want to commit suicide or anything.) But I sometimes wonder, if I'm not destined to follow my dreams, then what's the point of living? I'm starting to feel as sad and depressed as that man in the short, and those guys hanging by the neck and being dumped in the trash.
      I'm over 40 now, and I'm doing ok now, but there are times I wish I had a second chance in life and get another chance to reach my dreams.

    • @spritellly
      @spritellly Před 5 dny +1

      @@dreamguardian8320 The top of the ladder is a fine dream, but too lofty perhaps, and far far away. Your depression may shift once you take step onto the first rung.

  • @debrahorn1938
    @debrahorn1938 Před 15 dny +13

    Wonderfully portrayed. Life is what we make it!

  • @bretfisher7286
    @bretfisher7286 Před 15 dny

    Wonderfully done! His long gait-- like a giraffe-- adds so much to the sense of irony and bitterness.

  • @tjmmcd1
    @tjmmcd1 Před 17 dny +35

    LIFE, inc. Follow the rules and maybe, after giving the best 65 years of your lives to the corporations, will acquire a monthly stipend enabling you to live the final years of your lives in peace; while wishing the same for the children you brought into this insane reality.

    • @allison4644
      @allison4644 Před 17 dny +1

      Lol. So true.

    • @cjsantos6247
      @cjsantos6247 Před 15 dny

      Tell that to the KFC guy and so many other people that made it after 60. Or better, just be like the rest of the 60 and above people who live alone without a cent to travel nor take care of their own health. I wonder which lives a happier life...

    • @ianparrish6543
      @ianparrish6543 Před 9 dny +1

      Very well said. It's sad isn't.

  • @Milayinyang
    @Milayinyang Před 11 dny +3

    This is so beautiful, poetic and deep in so many ways, I'm very touched! Thank you for this outstanding animation! Hope to see much more of your amazing art!

  • @Lpks
    @Lpks Před 16 dny +8

    Vision trop près de la réalité ; jolie histoire touchante d-'espoir😊

  • @kaywilliams5673
    @kaywilliams5673 Před 15 dny +5

    this is a message I've seen lately. I have made this change. Don't wait, don't wait for romance or someone else to give you permission, or a health scare. Make the change now - if you want to of course.😄

  • @user-kf8us2ky5t
    @user-kf8us2ky5t Před 6 dny +6

    Great video, expressing the pure reality of today’s society. Unfortunately many of us are in a deep sleep and don’t see they are asleep. They suffer but don’t know why. Others has understood from where the suffering comes from but don’t how do heal and let go, they have forgotten what were the passions and talents of childhood, just don’t know how to get out of the dark. And the very few people have been connected again with their soul and are now following the soul’s purpose, leaving authentically, leaving their higher excitements…
    Many thanks for this creation that speaks more than millions of words.
    Much gratitude and blessings 🙏✨

  • @antonylawrence7266
    @antonylawrence7266 Před 9 dny +1

    That was really good, music makes our lives richer.

  • @ChristinKilmetz
    @ChristinKilmetz Před 4 dny

    Iove this kind of stop animation. I think that's how it's referred to. Remember chicken run? Lol that was so great. The key is in the subtle hilarity. Kudos to these kinds of artists!

  • @sadee1799
    @sadee1799 Před 15 dny +6

    beautiful story. always believe in yourselves.

  • @jennycadot3635
    @jennycadot3635 Před 16 dny +4

    J'adore, magnifique! Très belle histoire inspirante. 💜💜💜💜💜💜

  • @janepage3608
    @janepage3608 Před 17 dny +23

    That is quite possibly the most beautifully created animation I have ever seen. Outstanding. Congratulations and thank you!

  • @elinam.5427
    @elinam.5427 Před 5 hodinami

    oh my god this should win an oscar

  • @elenamilitopingitore5044
    @elenamilitopingitore5044 Před 16 dny +6

    Bravo! Sad, true😢

  • @user-jo6ke9hw1x
    @user-jo6ke9hw1x Před 15 dny +9

    A lot of work and a lot of sense. Thanks. 😀👍

  • @morganc4598
    @morganc4598 Před 13 dny +3

    For 18 years i had this dream of directing a play by Ariel Dorfman. For those years. No one would consider backing it, but i worked at it..kept on plugging away ..
    Of course COVID interrupted it but in 2023 i was given the oppurtunity of directing it. It was the culmination of all my dreams , of all those years of working towards putting it on stage.

  • @nobodyguy4524
    @nobodyguy4524 Před 10 dny +1

    Very well done. Hopefully I can follow his example and inspire others to live their best lives.

  • @jespetatl
    @jespetatl Před 8 dny

    Oh thank you for making this and sharing with us! This is my favorite short in quite some time! ❤

  • @munchkin0.o
    @munchkin0.o Před 16 dny +5

    My beautiful bunica from Romania send me this video from the other side x thank you so much xx

    • @munchkin0.o
      @munchkin0.o Před 16 dny

      Vraiment beau !! Extraordinaire :) Merci xx

  • @lesliemeeks2895
    @lesliemeeks2895 Před 16 dny +3

    Loved this!! 😊

  • @Chr.U.Cas2216
    @Chr.U.Cas2216 Před 16 dny +7

    👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic!
    Thanks a lot for making recording editing uploading and sharing.
    Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.

  • @lroz3207
    @lroz3207 Před 16 dny +7

    ¡Gracias!

  • @lovelight1
    @lovelight1 Před 14 dny +4

    Superb xxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • @fortissimoX
    @fortissimoX Před 17 dny +8

    Beautiful animation!

    • @flexiblebirdchannel
      @flexiblebirdchannel Před 16 dny

      Not just beautyful, but with a meaning.

    • @dreamguardian8320
      @dreamguardian8320 Před 11 dny

      Stop-Motion and 2D animation, animations I for one would love to see in the world and in our lives again.

  • @claudiamanta1943
    @claudiamanta1943 Před 20 hodinami

    I would have expected the paper employees to be shredded. Nonetheless, it is very well made. Thanks for sharing.

  • @FrontRoomProductionsanimations

    Just amazing!

  • @yed-nadiashihab3748
    @yed-nadiashihab3748 Před 6 dny

    Plutôt Kafkaïen !
    Bien à vous.

  • @luciafidalgo296
    @luciafidalgo296 Před 14 dny +1

    BRAVO! 👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @onacarommusic
    @onacarommusic Před 17 dny +2

    J'adore!

  • @nancywysemen7196
    @nancywysemen7196 Před 15 dny +1

    nicely done. animation variety keeps you interested in a fairly standard story.

  • @scottgarriott3884
    @scottgarriott3884 Před 12 dny +2

    Brilliant story and animation!

  • @janewasson4845
    @janewasson4845 Před 14 dny +1

    Old joke: In heaven, St Peter gives you a harp. In hell, Satan hands you an accordion.

  • @yourredhead
    @yourredhead Před 17 dny

    love it

  • @MisterG2323
    @MisterG2323 Před 14 dny

    Nice!

  • @crystalharris7394
    @crystalharris7394 Před 4 dny

    👏👏👏

  • @Akenaton-fm8vt
    @Akenaton-fm8vt Před 14 dny

    👏👏👏👏

  • @thelelakuhl
    @thelelakuhl Před 12 dny

    I'm still trying to find out what my dream is and then decide to make it happen.
    ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @rafal8959
    @rafal8959 Před 14 dny

    ❤❤❤

  • @Schothistik
    @Schothistik Před 17 dny +1

    👍

  • @saundraweed9738
    @saundraweed9738 Před 13 dny

    But he made the choice to “not” follow his dream for all those years.

  • @clanso7887
    @clanso7887 Před 14 dny

    6.00 everyone of those is a year of his life isnt it

  • @jeannedouglas9912
    @jeannedouglas9912 Před 16 dny

    Paper dolls and performing?

  • @user-ci2xj5wt2v
    @user-ci2xj5wt2v Před 10 dny +1

    8:20 The maximum expression of capitalism. They squeeze their workers to their last strength... and then they are disposable... they simply fire them.

  • @donnarouse9432
    @donnarouse9432 Před 13 dny

    Mr bean!

  • @tarastorzum2646
    @tarastorzum2646 Před 17 dny +4

    Work less video

    • @charlesthomas5956
      @charlesthomas5956 Před 13 dny

      How is this video from 3 days ago, BUT THIS COMMENT WAS MADE 4 DAYS AGO???

  • @theGuruInYou
    @theGuruInYou Před 15 dny

    alter einfach die Dokumente am bügeln hahaha wirf das weg

    • @theGuruInYou
      @theGuruInYou Před 15 dny +1

      eben der eine zerknüllt es, der andere bügelt es und der nächste schrädert es. so sinnlos ist die wirklichkeit in der arbeitswelt

  • @prosanis1216
    @prosanis1216 Před 14 dny

    Si vous avez tendance à devenir déprimé, vous n'êtes pas forcément obligé d'aller en France, les Français en général et tous les francophones en particulier savent très bien l'amener chez vous sous la forme de ce genre de vidéos mauvaises et désastreuses!👎🤢