Portanto, este artigo menciona isto:
"We looked at movies like 'Big' and 'Being There,'" the Favreau says. "(Those were) movies with similar concepts that were played very real and very emotional -- and they were good movies, not just funny movies."
To that end, the director (who is most famous for writing and starring in "Swingers") tried to give the movie an old-fashioned sensibility, hoping to capture the spirit of Christmas classics past, in part by using in-camera techniques instead of special effects to make Ferrell's co-stars like Bob Newhart seem elfin in size and also by paying tongue-in-cheek homage to perennial holiday favorites like "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" with his own stop-motion-animation sequences.
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"...so my pitch was to do it for a price instead of making it this big CGI extravaganza we would sort of use the old fashion methods, make the sets small, make it feel like a nostalgic, old Christmas movie, make it feel like an old Christmas special, actually. Like the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Rankin/Bass one. That was part of it. We justified it creatively by making the world that Buddy (Will Ferrell) came from was sort of this '60s TV special Christmas world."
Eu acho que é seguro dizer que Favreau estava tentando capturar essa sensação nostálgica.