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Eli David Marienthal is an American actor. He won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for his vocal performance as Hogarth Hughes in the animated film The Iron Giant (1999).
11K Followers, 1,317 Following, 434 Posts - Eli Marienthal (@elifreebird) on Instagram: "Traditional futurist Co-founder @backtobacktoearth".
- What Is 'The Iron Giant' About?
- Ted Hughes Wrote 'The Iron Giant' to Help His Children Grieve
- 'Brad Bird Used 'The Iron Giant' to Explore Death and Loss - with Some Changes
Almost immediately, The Iron Giant shows us that it takes place in a world of tension. Set during the Cold War - a very real, nonfictional conflict - the atmosphere of the film is one of uncertainty and mistrust. After a mysterious object (the Giant) crashes to Earth from outer space, the audience is immediately thrown into a scene of abject terror...
When the poet Sylvia Plath died by suicide in 1963, she left behind two children. They'd been the product of a volatile relationship between Plath and another poet, Ted Hughes. Hughes had not been a perfect husband during the marriage, taking part in affairs and allegedly abusing Plath. (Tragically, the woman Hughes entered the affair with, German ...
As it turned out, Hughes wasn't the only person using The Iron Giant to explore grief. In 1989, Bird's sister Susan was murdered by her husband in an act of gun violence. They had been very close. "I wasn’t thinking consciously about it when I proposed the idea," Bird told IndieWire in 2019, "but my feelings about [gun violence] are in the film and...
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Eli Marienthal. Co-Founder, Guide. Eli is a lifelong learner and educator. He is Co-Director of Back to Earth and a founding faculty member of W.I.L.D., where he guides wilderness rites of passage adventures for teens and young adults.
Eli Marienthal is an American former child actor who voiced Hogarth Hughes in The Iron Giant and played Matt Stifler in American Pie. See his biography, filmography, and other roles on TMDB.
Eli Marienthal’s Haiti story is about a little-boy obsession with his Haitian twin, met on the first of many trips to Haiti to visit his father. The earthquake this winter seems to have jolted loose his fixation, toward insight and action. Eli is the very picture of millennial possibility.
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