Aardman - Water Bottles - Wallace and Gromit Metal Water Bottle - Feathers McGraw

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After a long battle with the penguin, Wallace and Gromit managed to trap him in a milk bottle. They then returned the diamond and turned McGraw over to the police, who imprisoned him in the zoo.

McGraw walked Wallace home and forced him into the wardrobe; Gromit attempted to intervene, threatening McGraw with a rolling pin, but the penguin holds Gromit at gunpoint and forced him into the same wardrobe with Wallace. Gromit hotwired the trousers to stamp continuously until the wardrobe's floor paneling broke off, allowing them to break free. The two tried to catch Feathers as he tried to evade them with their electric train set.Arthur Christmas is a little more conventional than Aardman’s other features, complete with familiar story beats and Christmas sentimentality, but it hits those story beats with so much commitment and complicates that sentimentality just enough that the film sings. It helps that Peter Baynham and Sarah Smith’s script features an airtight premise that endlessly riffs on the Santa story and allows for dizzyingly inventive CG animation (some of the best ever produced this side of Pixar). More than that, Arthur Christmas understands holiday fatigue, and how the season can bring out everyone’s dissatisfaction and fears. It’s only Arthur, the true believer, who never loses sight of what the season means, while the rest of his family tries to exercise their own egos. But it’s Arthur’s determination to make sure no kid gets left out that reminds his whole family that Christmas, at its best, provides a tiny light on an otherwise cold, dark day. As a child, I found that extremely thrilling. Feathers was some kind of wish fulfilment — an aspirational figure. Unlike the other characters I watched at the time — the buffoonish Ren and Stimpy, the whiny Little Bear, the slovenly and unproductive Very Hungry Caterpillar — Feathers was guided by principles. Evil principles, sure, but principles none the less. My personal Aardman experience began with The Amazing Adventures of Morph, which aired on weekday afternoons on the ABC. I credit Morph as one of the earliest influences that inspired my own experimentation with claymation on Super 8 film, and eventually led to a career in animation and visual effects. I am certainly not unique in that regard, local animator and filmmaker Darcy Prendergast also began experimenting with claymation while in high school: Wallace and Gromit are undoubtedly the superstars of the Aardman stable of characters, however their standing has been challenged in recent years by Shaun the Sheep. Shaun first appeared as a supporting character in the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave, but, like Morph before him, he couldn’t be contained and now has his own TV series (five seasons so far), a feature film and a half-hour Christmas special. Shaun is well represented in both the exhibition and the ubiquitous gift shop merchandise. Prendergast later founded Oh Yeah Wow which has gone on to forge a reputation as one of Australia’s most exciting young animation studios. Now the wheel has turned full circle as the Aardman super-fan has been invited to host a discussion with Aardman founders Peter Lord and David Proxton at ACMI in honour of the new exhibition.

A photo of Feathers is shown in the Shaun the Sheep Movie on the board where A. Trumper keeps photos of all the animals he has captured.That's why Wallace and Gromit came up with the perfect solution: the Feathers McGraw Metal Water Bottle! This handy double-walled metal bottle lets Feathers McGraw drink on the go, without having to lug around a heavy jug of water. A lot of the genius of The Wrong Trousers is that the film is a battle of the wills between two characters who never talk. Wallace, the only character in the film who speaks, is utterly oblivious to the actual action going on. He doesn’t realise that he’s being manipulated by Feathers, or that he is hurting Gromit’s feelings, even when Gromit becomes so dejected that he considers running away from home.

In honor of Aardman’s latest film, Early Man, here’s a ranking of their filmography, from their early Wallace and Gromit shorts to the under-seen Shaun the Sheep Movie. Feathers McGraw's model when he was in a bottle at the end of The Wrong Trousers was featured in a YouTube Short by the official Wallace and Gromit YouTube channel. When Gromit is imprisoned in A Close Shave, the graffiti on the cell wall reads "Feathers was here". A vast array of design drawings, storyboards, characters and props has been brought out for display. The exhibition includes more than 350 objects, including some classic pieces from the short films A Grand Day Out, where the characters of Wallace and Gromit were first introduced, and Creature Comforts. And alongside them is the original Academy Award the studio received in 1990 for Creature Comforts.Two of his kind make a brief appearance in A Matter of Loaf and Death. His face is seen on a wanted poster hanging outside the zoo, indicating he's escaped yet again. He makes a cameo appearance in Curse of the Were-Rabbit: After Victor says "eat carrot, bunny boy!," Gromit flies in a toy plane. You can see McGraw randomly sitting on a building to Gromit's left. McGraw is the first villain in the Wallace & Gromit films to use a firearm, with Victor Quartermaine being the second. Feathers McGraw was a lodger, renting a room with Wallace when he had financial issues. Not satisfied with the room on offer, McGraw moved into Gromit's room, forcing him to live in a doghouse. McGraw then proceeds to irritate Gromit further by playing music loud late at night, hogging the bathroom, and monopolising Wallace's time. Thinking Wallace has forgotten him, Gromit sadly leaves the house.

Even when he is finally foiled, trapped in an empty milk bottle, he seems unshaken by proceedings. Most of us move through life uncertain of our goals, plagued by anxieties. Not Feathers McGraw. Feathers is a boss, with a clear-eyed sense of purpose and iron-clad faith in his own ability. Late in The Wrong Trousers, Gromit threatens to expose Feathers, interrupting his plan to make off with a massive diamond. At such a point in the narrative, most other villains might deliver a long speech, rattling off all the cliches we are used to hearing from cornered baddies. But Feathers doesn’t. Without skipping a beat, the penguin pulls out a comically large gun from a bag, and threatens to shoot the dog dead. Of course, that means Feathers is first and foremost terrifying. But it’s also key to his status as an all-time icon, and one of the boldest, most thrilling characters ever put to the screen. Feathers Is The Anti-Gromit… Feathers McGraw is the first Aardman antagonist to be an animal, and the first one to be silent, being followed by Preston, another Wallace & Gromit villain. How many of us would benefit from adopting such an attitude in our own lives — being honest about what we want, and how we want to get it, nosy dogs be damned?

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The next morning, whilst Gromit eats Korn Flakes when watching morning TV on a mini TV radio and Wallace dries his ears with a hairdryer, he put Wallace's slippers on his feet and took the morning paper to Wallace before Gromit, winning the latter's favor and causing Wallace to pay more attention to him rather than Gromit. Bitter and rejected, Gromit left home. A happy Feathers revealed that this was just part of his plan to get Gromit out of the way and modify Gromit's biggest birthday present (the Techno Trousers) for his own purposes.